Nothing to do
Bought three books from Borders for the long period of free time I am having before I actually start work; the few main pull factors for the purchase being the ’3 for 2′ promotion and the fact that I have already finished reading my currrent lot of literary treasures.
In no particular order, the books are:
- Making Globalization Work
- The Undercover Economist
- The Shock Doctrine
It’s kinda funny that when I took the course International Economics, I have used the same book Making Globalization Work in my group’s project and found it terribly boring and academic. But as I am a quarter-way through the book again, I simply just can’t stop reading it! Guess it’s different when I want to read it, rather than have to read it.
The Shock Doctrine is written by Naomi Klein, the same author of No Logo, which was a very good read many years back. Beware though for I have bought the book mistakenly thinking that it was a book on marketing tactics. It was a pleasant surprise though when it turned out to be about the ‘evilness’ in today’s corporations and their actions. And The Undercover Economist, well… I bought it simply because I had finished Fooled by Randomness and Freakonomics.
Three books.. and I’m still seriously bored. One can’t possibly just sit and read the entire day (although I did do that sometimes). One can’t keep going out and spending money one doesn’t have as well. Maybe I should just do some ten-years-series assessment books since I have never done them before in my life. Is there one for the subject of Life?