"I like Joel Greenblatt's The Little Book That Beats the Market because of its (almost overly) simple explanation at the beginning of the book, " said Jason Thomas, chief investment officer of Aspiriant.

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"I also remember that I lent him a book on SAS survival... it had things like how to survive in the outdoors for long periods of time, " he said.

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"I know that there is a lot of buying online, but I like crawling through the stacks and holding a book in my hands, " says Jim Nottingham, a business development consultant who lives in Millwood, N.

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And I think that they want to make sure that nobody writes a book like that about them five years from now.

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And I write in the book that people kept telling me there were no people like Kalima then you see them.

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And I'll just piggy-back a minute and tell you about two images that I really like, and I believe they're next to each other in the book.

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But that part of being the iPod, being that soundtrack, I know Felicia Pride, in a way, that's how this book started - you were like listening to the tunes on your iPod.

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But I like to feel that there are adults and old people and young people all, you know able to read the book and enjoy the story.

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One is that if somebody's reviewing, if a critic's reviewing an adult book, a good popular biography or work of science I'd like them to be able to say this is so interesting and so well written that children would enjoy this book as well.

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