Sign of the Times: A Reading List

zTHOT for the day:  You may not be prepared for the future–but the future is being prepared for you.

Here is a reading list.  Excellent background on what has happened and what may come to be.

COLLAPSE:  HOW SOCIETIES CHOOSE TO FAIL OR SUCCEED

by Jared Diamond

Jared Diamond teaches at UCLA and provides a tremendous perspective as to why certain societies have failed and even disappeared.  Worthwhile read for these times. 

THE FORECLOSURE OF AMERICA:  THE INSIDE STORY OF THE RISE AND FALL OF COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS, THE MORTGAGE CRISIS, AND THE DEFAULT OF THE AMERICAN DREAM

by Adam Michaelson

Very readable perspective on what went on inside Countrywide during those fateful years when they devised crazy re-fi options and easy-street mortgages.

THE DUMBEST GENERATION:  HOW THE DIGITAL AGE STUPEFIES YOUNG AMERICANS AND JEOPARDIZES OUR FUTURE

by Mark Bauerlin

A must read for any parent with a child who lives on the computer, texts like a maniac and plays endless computer games.  A scary look at the end product.

WHEN GIANTS FALL:  AN ECONOMIC ROAD MAP FOR THE END OF THE AMERICAN ERA

by Michael J. Panzner

Wow.  What a wakeup call.  And after you read this, sign up for his blog.  He sends it out every night.  Depressing but eye-opening.

THE LONG WALK:  THE TRUE STORY OF A TREK TO FREEDOM

by Slavomir Rawicz

What a story.  What an ordeal.  It is a look at what some people have withstood in the name of freedom.  You can’t put it down.  And now there will be a movie. 

 

 

 

 

FEEL THIS SHOULD END ON AN “UP” NOTE. 

HERE IS ONE OF THE FUNNIEST BOOKS EVER WRITTEN:

THREE MEN IN A BOAT

by Jerome K. Jerome

First published in 1889.   It is one of those rare, laugh-out-loud-funny books.

 

 

PLEASE REPLY WITH YOUR SUGGESTIONS ON A “GOOD READ”