My Audio Book List
I am going mad for Audio Books. Driving to work, 22 hour long plane rides. They are sometimes a “good enough” summary, other times an “all I really needed know anyway” type deal for me. I can get though a LOT more books with audio. In my queue at the moment are;
- Freakomics
- Stumbling Upon Happiness
- SuperCrunchers
- God is Not Great
- NLP The New Technology of Achievement
- An Utterly Impartial History of Britain
- Blink
- Getting Things Done
All at audible.com
February 23, 2008 at 5:55 am
In all honesty; Blink is a book you can skip. It is nowhere in his normal league of writing nor comparable to the other literature you have chosen. While the observation is interesting he is completely unable to substantiate his hypothesis and belabors the point.
God is not great; brilliant.
Freakonomics? - need to read.
Stumbling Upon Happiness; fascinating, I no longer trust myself.
Supercrunchers - need to read.
NLP - I read so much of this during highschool - do I need to read another? (let me know)
An Utterly Impartial History of Britain - I imagine I would love it…
Blink - nuff said…
GTD - Brilliant, and I could say so much more.
Any books you recommend?
I highly recommend the following:
The Art of the Start, by Guy Kawasaki
Purple Cow, by Seth Godin
Influence, Robert Cialdini
The Tipping Point, by Malcolm Gladwell
The 80/20 Principle, by Richard Koch
The Design of Everyday Things, by Donald Norman
The Four Hour Work Week, Tim Ferriss
At least those are a few that come immediately to mind right now…
February 23, 2008 at 8:00 am
Audio books always sound like a good idea to me, but I still like that feel of a book in my hand (and taking up space on my bookshelf in case I want to look something back up). Even with me being a complete techhead and gadget freak, I still can’t read anything substantial in electronic form
Anyway, recommendations -
* God is not great - fantastic (also try The God Delusion if you like Dawkins)
* I’ve just started Geekenomics, which I’m finding too “high level” and “slow” right now, but Bejtlich liked it, and I usually agree with his reviews, so I’ll stay with it
* Bink - ok, not fantastic
* Tipping point - I though was good, but this is an excellent counter point - http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/122/is-the-tipping-point-toast.html
* NLP - I read “Sourcebook of Magic: A Comprehensive Guide to NLP Change Patterns” a while back. Some interesting bits in there, but sorry, my pessimistic mind doesnt believe the hype. For a fun read, try Tricks of the Mind by Derren Brown - the start of the book gives insights into the techniques he uses for his memory/mentalist shows, where the 2nd halve basically says why NLP, mediums, holistic medicine, etc, is just a crock of $#!t
There’s a few others I could recommend to both try/ignore, but I’ll keep this semi-short with the offer to email me if you like