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A reflection on what makes hedge funds both extraordinarily lucrative and exceptionally difficult.
Book Reviews
Currently Reading
- The Age of Turbulence Alan Greenspan
- Ten Birds That Changed the World Stephen Moss
★★★★☆
Finance
Hard to understand the scale of the systemic fraud and corruption involving so many separate parties.
★☆☆☆☆
Novella
Enjoyed no part of this. Really do not like Cockroaches.
★★★★☆
Novella
"One eye was gluey-blind, the other sparkled with dark deeds."
Reading List
I want to work through the literary works on this list: Top 99 Works of Literature
10 / 99 read
| # | Title | Author | Year | Read |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Madame Bovary | Gustave Flaubert | 1857 | |
| 2 | Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy | 1878 | |
| 3 | War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy | 1865–1869 | |
| 4 | One Hundred Years of Solitude | Gabriel García Márquez | 1967 | |
| 5 | Ulysses | James Joyce | 1922 | |
| 6 | In Search of Lost Time | Marcel Proust | 1913–1927 | |
| 7 | Lolita | Vladimir Nabokov | 1955 | |
| 8 | Don Quixote | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | 1605–1615 | |
| 9 | Nineteen Eighty-Four | George Orwell | 1949 | |
| 10 | Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoevsky | 1866 | |
| 11 | The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald | 1925 | ✓ |
| 12 | The Brothers Karamazov | Fyodor Dostoevsky | 1880 | |
| 13 | Frankenstein | Mary Shelley | 1818 | ✓ |
| 14 | Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen | 1813 | |
| 15 | Moby Dick | Herman Melville | 1851 | |
| 16 | The Handmaid's Tale | Margaret Atwood | 1985 | |
| 17 | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain | 1884 | ✓ |
| 18 | Beloved | Toni Morrison | 1987 | |
| 19 | Wuthering Heights | Emily Brontë | 1847 | ✓ |
| 20 | The Lord of the Rings | J.R.R. Tolkien | 1954–1955 | |
| 21 | Things Fall Apart | Chinua Achebe | 1958 | ✓ |
| 22 | Midnight's Children | Salman Rushdie | 1981 | |
| 23 | Jane Eyre | Charlotte Brontë | 1847 | |
| 24 | Dracula | Bram Stoker | 1897 | |
| 25 | Middlemarch | George Eliot | 1872 | |
| 26 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | 1865 | |
| 27 | The Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck | 1939 | |
| 28 | To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee | 1960 | ✓ |
| 29 | The Catcher in the Rye | J.D. Salinger | 1951 | |
| 30 | The Name of the Rose | Umberto Eco | 1980 | |
| 31 | The Trial | Franz Kafka | 1925 | |
| 32 | Tristram Shandy | Laurence Sterne | 1759–1767 | |
| 33 | The Sound and the Fury | William Faulkner | 1929 | |
| 34 | Heart of Darkness | Joseph Conrad | 1902 | |
| 35 | Gulliver's Travels | Jonathan Swift | 1726 | |
| 36 | The Count of Monte-Cristo | Alexandre Dumas | 1844–1846 | |
| 37 | Invisible Man | Ralph Ellison | 1952 | |
| 38 | The Red and the Black | Stendhal | 1831 | |
| 39 | The Portrait of a Lady | Henry James | 1881 | |
| 40 | The Outsider | Albert Camus | 1942 | |
| 41 | The Magic Mountain | Thomas Mann | 1924 | |
| 42 | The Metamorphosis | Franz Kafka | 1916 | ✓ |
| 43 | Les Misérables | Victor-Marie Hugo | 1862 | |
| 44 | The Tale of Genji | Murasaki Shikibu | c.1020 | |
| 45 | Animal Farm | George Orwell | 1945 | ✓ |
| 46 | The Picture of Dorian Gray | Oscar Wilde | 1891 | |
| 47 | Mrs Dalloway | Virginia Woolf | 1925 | |
| 48 | The Hound of the Baskervilles | Arthur Conan Doyle | 1902 | |
| 49 | The War of the Worlds | H.G. Wells | 1898 | |
| 50 | Brave New World | Aldous Huxley | 1932 | |
| 51 | Life of Pi | Yann Martel | 2002 | |
| 52 | Love in the Time of Cholera | Gabriel García Márquez | 1985 | |
| 53 | Wide Sargasso Sea | Jean Rhys | 1966 | |
| 54 | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | James Joyce | 1916 | |
| 55 | The Little Prince | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | 1943 | |
| 56 | Great Expectations | Charles Dickens | 1861 | ✓ |
| 57 | A Sentimental Education | Gustave Flaubert | 1869 | |
| 58 | Gone with the Wind | Margaret Mitchell | 1936 | |
| 59 | Blindness | José Saramago | 1995 | |
| 60 | Rebecca | Daphne du Maurier | 1938 | |
| 61 | The Maltese Falcon | Dashiell Hammett | 1930 | |
| 62 | The Golden Notebook | Doris Lessing | 1959 | |
| 63 | Emma | Jane Austen | 1815 | |
| 64 | The Talented Mr. Ripley | Patricia Highsmith | 1967 | |
| 65 | The Master and Margarita | Mikhail Bulgakov | 1967 | |
| 66 | For Whom the Bell Tolls | Ernest Hemingway | 1940 | |
| 67 | A Clockwork Orange | Anthony Burgess | 1962 | |
| 68 | Absalom! Absalom! | William Faulkner | 1936 | |
| 69 | Under the Volcano | Malcolm Lowry | 1947 | |
| 70 | Perfume | Patrick Süskind | 1985 | |
| 71 | All Quiet on the Western Front | Erich Maria Remarque | 1929 | |
| 72 | The Sorrows of Young Werther | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | 1774 | |
| 73 | Candide | Voltaire | 1759 | |
| 74 | The Age of Innocence | Edith Wharton | 1920 | |
| 75 | On the Road | Jack Kerouac | 1957 | |
| 76 | To the Lighthouse | Virginia Woolf | 1927 | |
| 77 | The Leopard | Giusseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa | 1958 | |
| 78 | Lord of the Flies | William Golding | 1954 | ✓ |
| 79 | And Then There Were None | Agatha Christie | 1927 | |
| 80 | The Big Sleep | Raymond Chandler | 1939 | |
| 81 | As I Lay Dying | William Faulkner | 1930 | |
| 82 | Slaughterhouse-Five | Kurt Vonnegut | 1969 | |
| 83 | The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle | Haruki Murakami | 1994–1995 | |
| 84 | Independent People | Halldór Laxness | 1934–1935 | |
| 85 | Dune | Frank Herbert | 1965 | |
| 86 | The Man Without Qualities | Robert Musil | 1930–1943 | |
| 87 | Hunger | Knut Hamsun | 1899 | |
| 88 | Bleak House | Charles Dickens | 1853 | |
| 89 | Memoirs of Hadrian | Marguerite Yourcenar | 1951 | |
| 90 | Disgrace | J.M. Coetzee | 1999 | |
| 91 | Neuromancer | William Gibson | 1984 | |
| 92 | The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie | Muriel Spark | 1961 | |
| 93 | The Spy Who Came in from the Cold | John Le Carré | 1963 | |
| 94 | Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe | 1719 | |
| 95 | The Hobbit | J.R.R. Tolkien | 1937 | |
| 96 | Atonement | Ian McEwan | 2001 | |
| 97 | Doctor Zhivago | Boris Pasternak | 1957 | |
| 98 | Never Let Me Go | Kazuo Ishiguro | 2005 | |
| 99 | The Three Musketeers | Alexandre Dumas | 1844 |