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The book once again reconfirmed my impressions on books and movies - the latter are often very good at handling plots but they're so often handicapped in dealing with complicated inner-feelings. The only reason the movie The Reader was made, I think, was to make the book more well-known and reach re ... (continue)

Speechlessly touching. This poetry is capable of making every wasted heart to believe in love again.

Salomon didn't exist anymore (it's now a subsidiary of Citibank) but the rise and fall of this investment empire was still inspiring - after all these years. Perhaps it's also a guidebook about how not getting lost in the money-jungle.

The appendix alone deserves the Nobel Prize. I saw it as a cross-reference to Wittgenstein's examinable on language.