What books should be read

Subscribers' Layfhakera "periodically in the comments note that in spite of the benefits of reading books often fall short of expectations. It is, first of all, the so-called "mass literature" that literature and some can hardly be called (I think all of you know the names of Authors who publish 10 books a year, and then all this "seriyschina" hits the shelves of bookstores under the guise of "literary novelties"). None of these books and we would never read themselves, and even more so - to advise you to read. here 5 kinds of booksThat revision Layfhakera ready to recommend to read:
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• Foreign business literature: "Why foreign, rather than domestic?" - you ask. The answer is simple: because the "business guru" in the vast Runet / CIS had multiplied so much that it can hardly be distinguished from professional swindler. And all the published books. The value of most of these "books" is questionable; and theses are sometimes simply rewriting in your own words 2-3-5 various Western writers.
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  Foreign business literature as a rule does not only focus on certain tasks and problems, but apart from the theory, contains many practical cases. If you are interested in time management, business planning, personal and corporate finances, organization of work teams and projects - it is definitely worth pay attention to the European and American authors, whose scientific-theoretical and practical school is much higher than domestic "colleagues shop. "
• Art Classics: European, Russian, American classical literature - a huge source of not only interesting scenes and images, but also a great way to recharge your vocabulary, the development of creative thinking. A good book - it's just about classical literature. And not necessarily talking only about the "software" of the work of the schools and colleges: take the trouble to look for the little-known in our country, but popular overseas works and authors. You will see how many good books - with excellent style, style, with wonderful stories and stories - passed "by" you. And you will have a chance to fill these gaps. Reading fiction is not for someone (students - "to assess", to students - "for credit", etc.), and for yourself.
• Biographies of famous people: Still continue to "laykat" status VKontakte and Twitter retweet sentences allegedly spoken by Einstein and Ranevskaya? Over the past 5 years, the network mythology ascribes the famous people on both sides of the ocean so much is said and done, how many they are 2-3 life would not have time. Biographies of these same people written at different times and by different authors, can give you a more realistic view and those whose names are on everyone's lips, and the era in which they lived and worked. Scientists, artists, writers, businessmen, teachers, politicians - they each have something to learn, even if they lived 100-200 years before you. And besides - we know little about our contemporaries: for those whose career or creative peak activity occurred in the 80 th - 90 th years of the twentieth century. Biographical books will help fill this gap.
• The history of the company / brand / startup: In my opinion, this is - one of the most exciting categories of books. Learn how to create a brand of clothing that you wear, the car, the wheel which you are going to work as develop software with which you work every day, or your favorite computer game - it is not interesting? You do not even think about how much time and effort it took to create the many things that we now seem as familiar and mundaneLike a wheel, matches or paper (by the way, and these ordinary things in his time helped one companies "burn," and the other - to earn millions).
• Historical works / studies: It is said that who does not know the past, and has no future. However, I like the statement of a historian about what ignorance of the mistakes of the past dooms people and whole nations into an infinite repetition of these mistakes in the future. History - one of the most challenging and cognitive sciences on the planet. Many stereotypes, "hammered" in our older generation, the school or institution about the past of our country, will in fact not such truths; and some tragic pages could not be, if not the fault of individual personalities and agencies. Needless to say that the study of history of their own and neighboring peoples help to better understand themselves and make their own attitude to our past and our present?