book suggestions?

[koriwhat]

anyone have any suggestions for interesting books that can teach you something? i'm not into fiction or story telling at all so... i usually pick up technical books but what really interests me is history, the universe, pols, etc... any suggestions would be appreciated.

[SpursforSix]

anyone have any suggestions for interesting books that can teach you something? i'm not into fiction or story telling at all so... i usually pick up technical books but what really interests me is history, the universe, pols, etc... any suggestions would be appreciated.

This is petty good. I'm only a few chapters in. I don't know that I buy this but it's interesting to think about.

https://www.amazon.com/Simulation-Hy...gateway&sr=8-4

[koriwhat]

This is petty good. I'm only a few chapters in. I don't know that I buy this but it's interesting to think about.

https://www.amazon.com/Simulation-Hy...gateway&sr=8-4

pretty interesting and right up my ally. thanks

read a book by michio kaku a while back that got me reading more than just tech books(mainly web programming bs/stack bs).

a friend of mine gave me a book 2 days ago about making money. thought it sounded interesting but i am 30 pgs from its end and it's just another one of your typical "talk to the universe" self help books. bleh....

[clambake]

the anarchist cookbook

[pgardn]

the anarchist cookbook

Please not for the reader with the request.
Please.

[Spurtacular]

the anarchist cookbook

Good try, blakey.

[spurraider21]

[dabom7]

Did you read it, Lite?

[spurraider21]

nope, derp

[baseline bum]

anyone have any suggestions for interesting books that can teach you something? i'm not into fiction or story telling at all so... i usually pick up technical books but what really interests me is history, the universe, pols, etc... any suggestions would be appreciated.

I have been studying this book called Remembering the Kanji by James Heisig. It teaches you how to memorize the 2200 main kanji of Japanese through making stories for each so that you can know the meaning and write them from memory. It sounds like bull but in less than a couple of months I have gotten about 1100 down with around a 95% success rate when using flashcard apps to test my retention a couple hundred at a time. And my memory ing sucked before I learned this technique out of the book.

For example, the kanji for Buddha is 仏, which is the symbol for person on the left and an elbow on the right. But person is too generic to remember so I change it to Mr T (there are a lot of kanji using that person symbol so I wrote a ton of stories about Mr T to remember them). Then the story to remember that one is "Mr T got a joint so big his elbows bow out when he's smoking that buddha" as I'm picturing him holding one of those giant joints like in Cheech & Chong's Up in Smoke. I probably wouldn't recommend the book to anyone not learning Japanese or Chinese, but the memory technique is really cool because stories are so much easier to remember than trying to picture a graphic in your head. For the buddha one you probably could but then this one 歳 for one's age? No way anyone is remembering that as a graphic. If you have a few minutes this is an interesting watch when this speaker describes how he learned the word moktor vs how vocabulary is ineffectively taught in a typical HS or college language course.

[Spurtacular]

nope, derp

So you don't even want to read that p.o.s.

[Spurtacular]

I do the audiobooks; tastes might be different for persons into regular reading with wanting pictures or maps or whatever have you.

[koriwhat]

the anarchist cookbook

dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb.

Please not for the reader with the request.
Please.

you think i'm a teenage anarchist is hilarious! then again i saw that garbage when i was in my teens and my buddy not only got it off some website but also from barnes & nobles(so anarchist!).

I have been studying this book called Remembering the Kanji by James Heisig. It teaches you how to memorize the 2200 main kanji of Japanese through making stories for each so that you can know the meaning and write them from memory. It sounds like bull but in less than a couple of months I have gotten about 1100 down with around a 95% success rate when using flashcard apps to test my retention a couple hundred at a time. And my memory ing sucked before I learned this technique out of the book.

For example, the kanji for Buddha is 仏, which is the symbol for person on the left and an elbow on the right. But person is too generic to remember so I change it to Mr T (there are a lot of kanji using that person symbol so I wrote a ton of stories about Mr T to remember them). Then the story to remember that one is "Mr T got a joint so big his elbows bow out when he's smoking that buddha" as I'm picturing him holding one of those giant joints like in Cheech & Chong's Up in Smoke. I probably wouldn't recommend the book to anyone not learning Japanese or Chinese, but the memory technique is really cool because stories are so much easier to remember than trying to picture a graphic in your head. For the buddha one you probably could but then this one 歳 for one's age? No way anyone is remembering that as a graphic. If you have a few minutes this is an interesting watch when this speaker describes how he learned the word moktor vs how vocabulary is ineffectively taught in a typical HS or college language course.

that's actually really rad and thanks for the suggestion. i've always wanted to learn Japanese but just haven't committed myself to it quite yet. i know a littler here and there due to tattooing Japanese motif. have you ever seen the 30-50 book collection of comics intended to teach Japanese? they seem like a good learning tool but i've yet to dive in.

thanks bud.

I do the audiobooks; tastes might be different for persons into regular reading with wanting pictures or maps or whatever have you.

i only do audiobooks when i want to "reread" a book but i know a lot of people who love their audiobooks. what type of content are you into Spurt?

[baseline bum]

that's actually really rad and thanks for the suggestion. i've always wanted to learn Japanese but just haven't committed myself to it quite yet. i know a littler here and there due to tattooing Japanese motif. have you ever seen the 30-50 book collection of comics intended to teach Japanese? they seem like a good learning tool but i've yet to dive in.

thanks bud.

Nah never heard of it, but it sounds interesting. Do you remember what it's called? The spaced repe ion systems dude talks about in that video are extremely helpful. I use a free one called Anki that has ports on PC, Android, and iOS. It's like a smart flash card system that tries to guess when you're about to forget something based on the last few times you saw it and whether you got it wrong, got it right, got it right and said it was hard, or got it right and said it was easy. Then it shows you the card on the day it thinks you're inching close to forgetting it. I wish I knew about these when I was dying in Spanish class in school.

[Spurtacular]

i only do audiobooks when i want to "reread" a book but i know a lot of people who love their audiobooks. what type of content are you into Spurt?

Historical mostly. I don't believe much in the modern novel; though that's just a guess. I could be missing out for all I know.

[FkLA]

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Oops, didn't read all of the initial post eschewing fiction & story telling. I'll delete this.

[Will Hunting]

that book is a piece of trash written for uneducated people who want to read a book that makes them feel knowledgeable about the business world

My grandmother nags me to read it every time I talk to her.

[BD24]

that book is a piece of trash written for uneducated people who want to read a book that makes them feel knowledgeable about the business world

My grandmother nags me to read it every time I talk to her.

Sounds like it is right up Joeys alley tbh

[koriwhat]

read it when i was like 25 but like all self help books they all seem to regurgitate the same stuff. his at least comes from a personal experience of watching 2 different men operate on 2 different planes when it comes to making, spending, and saving money. his real dad(poor dad) must have some resentment for his rich dad(friends dad).

Sounds like it is right up Joeys alley tbh

surprised you didn't suggest, How To Run and Hide Like a Little Numerous Times Over but Still Try and Act Hard Online Because I Need and Want Online Friends by BD24? i heard it's a great book on how to be a total and utter online and offline.

[FkLA]

that book is a piece of trash written for uneducated people who want to read a book that makes them feel knowledgeable about the business world

My grandmother nags me to read it every time I talk to her.

Depends on what you do with it, imo. I've been thinking about trying my luck in real estate, have been reading and listening to a lot of podcasts...and a bunch of successful real estate investors point to that book as the book that made the lightbulb come on for them. I doubt that's a coincidence.

Haven't read it yet but its next after I finish the current book I'm on, tbh.

[Will Hunting]

Depends on what you do with it, imo. I've been thinking about trying my luck in real estate, have been reading and listening to a lot of podcasts...and a bunch of successful real estate investors point to that book as the book that made the lightbulb come on for them. I doubt that's a coincidence.

Haven't read it yet but its next after I finish the current book I'm on, tbh.

It's not a coincidence, widely marketed books like Rich Dad Poor Dad always load up on paid-for testimonials to increase sales.

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Haven't read it myself but might be useful for OP, tbh ...

[koriwhat]

Haven't read it myself but might be useful for OP, tbh ...

too funny

the funniest thing of all is yall thinking i'm this angry dude just by my posts here. i'm far from it. i just cuss a lot and so do yall but for some reason i'm the angry one here on the board. yall have no clue whatsoever.

[FkLA]

It's not a coincidence, widely marketed books like Rich Dad Poor Dad always load up on paid-for testimonials to increase sales.

These are average Joe's not the Trumps of the real estate world. By successful I mean people that have as little as 5-10 properties. Maybe I'm naive, but it can't all be bull , imo.