[akula]

Originally Posted by Create

why I can't embed pics into the threads ?

to prevent p0nr

[Create]

Originally Posted by akula

son, I'm not flaming you. you seem like a great guy. you don't need to explain to me what you've read and what you haven't.

the point is, none of the books listed in this thread so far meet any kind of industry standards for quality

even if some sap reads all those books, 10 times over; a kid with a 3 year degree in finance from a backwater community college is gonna be infinitely better trained in money management, than the poor sap (who, btw is gonna be calling him self the "Financial Expert with Advanced Degree in Cashflow Quadrant...or what ever they call them selves)

I agree with you 100% there. So in your opinion you would recommend someone without a finance degree to check out a decent college and find out what their courseload reads.

That is a 100% smart idea to do.

Oh, and I know you don't care what my library looks like, but i want to post it anyway. I orignally studied Poli Sci and Computer science so that someday I could be in office. Now I plan on developing a company that helps smaller towns design/implement wireless(wired) networks in their downtown area.

This is where the government education comes in.

[akula]

Originally Posted by Create

I agree with you 100% there. So in your opinion you would recommend someone without a finance degree to check out a decent college and find out what their courseload reads.

That is a 100% smart idea to do.

yeah, sure. for example, these are the books stanford recommends for entrepreneurship

they're good books....the better ones are taught using case studies and excel modeling

with books, reading the thing achieves little. it's about completing the diffrent tasks, exercises and really applying the knowledge many times over in diffrent scenarios

[sniping4dummies]

Originally Posted by Create

Like I said I did not list my whole library, but you have forced me to go and take pictures of it.

I did not list any books I read in college, or throughout my college career. I am 25, with 2 degrees from The University of Kentucky. CS and PS.

So, I didn't post any of my technical, finance, or Political books. From the Threads I have read here at YE the boosk I originally posted were books that I thought you all might have had. And yes I have read them. That doesn't mean i haven't read anything else..

Why can't we post pictures on here?

I'm from Kentucky (originally) and that's not saying much =)

[Create]

Originally Posted by sniping4dummies

I'm from Kentucky (originally) and that's not saying much =)

UK is an awesome school. One of my best friends was from Cookville TN and we all call him Cookie .

[eich41]

Akula,

I see the point you're trying to make and to an extent I agree with you, there is definitely a lot of crap out there. However, some of these books deal more with personal finance issues aside from investing and there is some knowledge to be gained from them. Also I think your requirement of a book being written by an unbiased, unpaid scholar to be credible is a little off. In fact I find many books (including texts) written by these people and professors to be pretty poor sources. Not all but good portion. The problem being that these people tend to live in a theoritical world. They don't have real-world experience and therefore some of their theories and principles are idealogical and not as effective or practical when actually put to use. Not that these texts would be worse than some of the drivel that you can find in Barnes & Noble, but they are not the gospel as you seem to be making them out to be. But like everything there can some value taken from them just as there can be some value taken from some of the books listed so far.

[akula]

great points there

again, it's about having criteria for selecting a reading list

if my criteria is not appropriate, what do you suggest?

[eich41]

Well I think the best educator is experience. But it doesn't hurt to read whatever you can get your hands on, just be smart enough to filter out what is garbage and find the value out of what your reading. One good way to gain real experience without putting your money up, is to use a virtual trading program such as Stock-trak.com. Once you develop strategies and get comfortable with managing your "money" there jump in and start up a brokerage account. The key is to keep gaining knowledge from whatever you do whether it's through experience, reading a Portfolio Management text, or Investing for Dummies...

[Create]

BTW: My sole purpose for making this thread was to see if anyone read anything other than Rich Dad Poor Dad books. From all the other threads I see all I see people preach is "RK this, RK that."