星期天本来要去大都会博物馆看展览的(Free admission with Bank of America debit or credit card, why not? :-), 结果天气太热，不适合任何户外exposure, 为了省电，左总去书店呆了三天(i took today off), 读了五本书(i don't want to sound like anybody, but左总自幼博闻强记，博览群书，一目十行，一日千里，三天读五本书对左总来说算是发挥一般的)。

Anyway, 这五本书是：

1.Crash Proof

2.Bad Money

3.the Coming Generation Storm

4.the War on China

5.More Sex is Safer Sex

随便找的5本书里前三本都是说的the coming crisis and the possibility of a collaps of US economy and US dollar, 看来这不是空穴来风，但一般来说，如果大家都看到了危机and prepared，危机(i hope)就应该爆发得不那么猛烈. 但是没有一个作者给出了一个viable solution, because the problem has been too big and too serious and has been ignored or even purposedly covered up too well and for too long, at least for the general public(because it's too big and too serious).

对投资感兴趣的同学们可以读读第一本，it tells you how to be prepared, or even profit from the coming crash, namely, buy foreign(China), buy gold/oil, and buy CASH.

第二本比较文言，不推荐，unless you have a 文科 PHD from an Ivy League school(not including Cornell).

第三本比较浅显易懂，临总应该好好读一读，and then you'll understand why Dukeguy keeps 唱衰美国.

第四本，the Coming War on China, OMG, i can't even believe i read it all. 帝国主义亡我之心不死啊. 作者是UC-Irvine的教授(has anyone ever heard of that school?) 作者在书中偷梁换柱，以偏概全，夸大其词，颠倒黑白，无所不用其极... sometimes it's just simply lying. 同学们，帝国主义真的急红了眼了...感兴趣的不妨一读，文字非常浅显，应该是 targeting truck drivers 和 trailer dewellers and people in certain glamorous industry :-)

第5本 is a very light-hearted and interesting book, telling you lot of fun theories and findings against commom wisdom, as the title indicated, 有点像那本脍炙人口的“Freakonomics”， 在Amazon上只卖半盘儿鱼香肉丝的钱.