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Latest plan for market carnage
Books: 06-20
While you are waiting for the market to put in final highs before imploding, you may at least do yourself a favor and buy some more books. Keep stacking while you still can -- are the bookstores open in Caracas these days?
We do not have cable TV or a game console in our house, but we do have countless 20th Century artifacts from MAD magazine, including more than 60 paperbacks. Here's a sample.
My kids read MAD, do yours? And why not? The large format paperbacks are especially good. I never imagined having this much MAD swag when I was a kid. These are true relics, and practically free for the taking these days, because the youth are all strung out on internet pornography and "Grand Theft Auto" in 1080P.
This next book is actually really scarce and hard to find, especially with the maps included. I've been looking for it for ages, and flipped out when I stumbled across it one day in Value Village for $2.
This new Modern Library edition was nicer to read than my older edition.
This last one I can burn when I am finished with it.
We do not have cable TV or a game console in our house, but we do have countless 20th Century artifacts from MAD magazine, including more than 60 paperbacks. Here's a sample.
MAD magazine paperbacks, mostly Signet editions |
My kids read MAD, do yours? And why not? The large format paperbacks are especially good. I never imagined having this much MAD swag when I was a kid. These are true relics, and practically free for the taking these days, because the youth are all strung out on internet pornography and "Grand Theft Auto" in 1080P.
Al Jaffee |
Dave Berg |
Don Martin |
Sergio Aragonés |
Thomas Wakefield Goodspeed, The Story of the University of Chicago: 1890-1925, Chicago, 1925 |
This next book is actually really scarce and hard to find, especially with the maps included. I've been looking for it for ages, and flipped out when I stumbled across it one day in Value Village for $2.
Rowland W. Tabor, Guide to the Geology of Olympic National Park, University of Washington, 1975 |
Murray Morgan, The Dam. Viking Press, New York, 1954 |
John Manchip White, Cortes and the downfall of the Aztec Empire, St. Martin's Press, New York, 1971 |
William H. Prescott, Ferdinand and Isabella, Heritage Press, New York, 1967 |
Michael Prawdin, The Mongol Empire: Its Rise and Legacy, George Allen & Unwin, London, 1952 |
Michael Prawdin, The Builders of the Mogul Empire, George Allen & Unwin, London, 1963 |
Georges Lefebvre, Napoleon, 2 vols Columbia UP, NYC, 1970 |
This new Modern Library edition was nicer to read than my older edition.
Plutarch, Lives, 2 vols, Modern Library, NY, 1992 |
Jon Meacham, American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House, Random House, NY, 2008 |
Isaac Asimov, The Foundation Trilogy, Doubleday Science Fiction, NY, 1951 |
This last one I can burn when I am finished with it.
John Vivian, Wood Heat, Rodale Press, Emmaus, PA, 1976 |
Tuesday, June 7, 2016
What if the Fed surprises us next week?
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