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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
This book wins the award for "worst book I've read in recent memory". The author is incredibly negative, arrogant, and insulting to anyone who doesn't think exactly like him, and those who think he's on to something, but want more verification before they buy onto it completely. I can give you a brief summary of the book: Black Swans are events that are rare but change everything. No current models include these crazy unpredictable events. All scientists, statisticians, and economists are morons and this author is so much smarter than every Nobel Laureate ever. The end. Go ahead and just read Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman (whom the author has a MAJOR crush on) and you'll get the same info and enjoy it a lot more.