ctkrohn

I'd recomment Taleb's "Fooled by Randomness" instead. Taleb is smug, but he makes an important point: people are way too eager to see patterns where none exist.

"Accelerando" is his best novel by far, IMO. Check it out if you haven't already.

read "The Power Broker." Probably the best biography I've ever read

That book was OK, but the later parts (where he talks about CAPM and so forth) are uninformative to anyone who knows about modern mathematical finance.

Besides "Gates of Fire,"

"Missile Gap" was my favorite story in that collection.

I've read "The Afghan Campaign"

"The Virtues of War," two novels about Alexander The Great.