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I don’t know about the smartest, but at less than 180 pages this is certainly the smallest investing book I have ever read. The bargain price of $4.97 was worth it though. (The size falls below the minimum 200-page limit I follow when paying $5 for any book on investing, but that is okay, as long as quality compensates for the lack of quantity.)
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I always enjoy reading a well-written book on investing, and not because I am learning something new each time. In fact, after you are done with a half-dozen or so really good books, you pretty much know all there is to know about investing, and rest is mere detail.
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I just finished reading A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market by John Allen Paulos, professor of mathematics at Temple University. Being a scientist with a theoretical bend, I was readily drawn towards the title of the book.
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