Comments on: I vote for Noble House

By: TCO

TCO — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 18:20:29 +0000

If you expand the scope to include documentary stories, I would vote for When Genius Failed, Burn Rate, Barbarians at the Gates, and The Smartest Guys in the Room. Burn Rate is particularly good. I remember being appalled at the Firm by all the HBS lemmings, not even thinking, mouthing Lowell Bryant platitudes…

By: Technomad

Technomad — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 20:04:40 +0000

I read all of Clavell's books until _Whirlwind._ I used to adore his work, but since I studied China in considerable depth in college, I can see where he was making things up as he went along. Particularly in _Tai-Pan_ and _Shogun,_ the names he gives his Asian characters mostly aren't correct for the languages they'd be speaking.

That said, I think Ayn Rand would have _loved_ Dirk Struan and Ian Dunross.

By: jon spencer

jon spencer — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 14:12:33 +0000

For me King Rat is the best of his books.

By: Doug Murray

Doug Murray — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 00:28:54 +0000

I'm sure I'll get there. Halfway through Tai Pan right now and will probably go on throught the series.

I made both my boys read Atlas Shrugged but they moved to California anyway.