First of all thanks to everyone on this forum who helped me land an offer. It’s been a long road of reading this website and I actually learned a lot despite the shitposts. Does anyone have good book recommendations now that I’m done studying technicals lol. Could be anything both finance and non finance related, just want to get back to actually learning
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A moveable feast by Hemingway I thought was a really good quick read. Not at all finance related tho
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If you like philosophy The Stranger by Camus is a relatively quick read, and I personally like it a lot.
If you like historical fiction my all time favorite is All the Light You Cannot See (set in WWII)
If you like dystopian, the Red Rising series is interesting, as well as the classics like Brave New World.
If you want a finance book rec, Caesar’s Palace is stuffed with drama related to bankruptcy filings and debtor creditor fights, but only if you’re into that stuff like restructuring hardos.
Re: Caeser's Palace, I wouldn't say it's just for Rx hardos. There's some good nuggets about PE investing (particularly about the Apollo principals and David Bonderman) and fairness opinions, and the actual pre-buyout story is interesting by itself too.
Fair point – just basing it off the fact that HL Rx makes its interns do a case study on the Caesar's Palace case and the timeline of the bankruptcy lol. Not a restructuring person myself but it's a good read
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I know you said books, but with your free time give Acquired a listen. Great podcast imo and gives you a good blend of companies' histories as well as the trends they face today.
The Four Agreements
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Can't Hurt Me
The Alchemist
Mein Kampf
How Money Became Dangerous, written by tech rainmaker Chris Varelas
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My only finance recommendation (with my limited reading of the genre) is The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith. Do yourself a favor and skip the part when he rambles on about the silver supply and the printing of bullion. All my other recommendations are the following:
I was not one to suggest the classics until I actually read The Iliad and the Odyssey - translated by Fagles. Gripping story and very exciting. Also gives you a lot of "bang for your buck" in the sense that after reading one or both of these works you have a HUGE amount of knowledge of Greek/Roman mythology. Easy to get though, short chapters. If you want more classics I enjoyed Milton's Paradise Lost.
If you like literary realism, I'd suggest James Joyce's Dubliners. Set of very interesting short stories set in late 19th century Dublin. Easy to get through, short stories . I just finished Ulysses (Joyce's magnum opus) and it is a slog. Wouldn't suggest unless you have a month to kill and you love reading about turn-of-the-20th-century Dublin. I'm about to start Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, then after Ibsen's A Doll's House. All pillars of literary realism (Ibsen is considered the first realist).
Really anything by Cormac McCarthy - dark plots but vividly constructed with nuanced and complex characters. I'd suggest The Road, All the Pretty Horses, Child of God, Blood Meridian, the Outer Dark.
My favorite summer reading is anything by Pat Conroy - modern southern "gothic" set in and around Charleston SC. Excellent commentary on religion, father/son dynamic, race relations, poverty, etc. Favorites of mine include The Lords of Discipline, The King of Tides, South of Broad, Beach Music.
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