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2013 Books Roundup

I do this yearly roundup of books I have read. [ Here is the 2012 list ,  2011 list  and  2010 list  ] I let myself be influenced by books. And for this reason I choose books carefully! Books made me a runner. Books made me a honest salesman. Books made me a Vegetarian. Yes - books are dangerous :) Black Swan - The Impact of Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb I did not get to the end of the book. Dropped out somewhere in the middle. However it was an eye opener. It made rubbish of the expert analysts - in every field - especially economists. This book resonated with Tim Ferris's philosophy ( 4 Hour Work Week ), that it is futile to read news daily - and to read magazines instead - as the news gets consolidated and refined. When World War 2 was being fought - no one called it World War 2 when they were in the middle of the war - the historians later christened that phase as World War.  I doubt if there is any useful takeaway from this book other than the fact tha