Bøger af Scott Reed

A highly successful CEO, Scott Reed's Top 50 Rules of Investing breaks down investment philosophy and ethics for anyone to understand. Within Top 50 Rules of Investing, Scott Reed offers a personal, lighthearted and sincere approach to investing. His writing is keenly impacted by his experiences serving on non-profit boards, running one of the top investment firms in the United States, and connecting with business professionals across the country as a public speaker. His newest investment guide breaks down the subject's complexity with cheer, flashing a grin after every paragraph.

He had everything most people would consider worthwhile yet there was a gnawing feeling of nothingness inside the mind and soul of Brian Jefferson. A dark tale of one man's philosophical journey, Middle of Nothing begins with Brian Jefferson on a brief excursion of rediscovery. Unfortunately, he discovers a darker side of his personality and devolves into levels of sexual depravity that disturb his core self. Told without the necessity for excessive graphic detail, his adventures create a deepening moral divide within his mind. As he continues to strive for a better understanding of his own history and how to escape that which he has become, he learns disturbing things about nearly everyone he comes in contact with as well as dark family secrets that threaten to destroy him. Through the morass of darkness that envelops his mind, he senses a light and continues to strive forward. A philosophical journey that tells a tale of a modern American man obsessed with those things he believes are normal -- money, power and sex -- along the path he learns more about himself than he could have hoped. He travels the world in search of his soul and finds it in the most remarkably unremarkable place. There are people who guide his journey at times, but it is the uniqueness of one family that creates a new path. The story, told in a sweeping sense over the course of many years uses great detail interspersed with logic, conversation and intense interludes of his own depravity all weaved together to create a new person at the end of the journey. Much of this journey challenges the closely held beliefs of many men about everything from sex, love, money, career and society in general.

When Jeff Smith awakens in a Columbus, Ohio, hospital, he is a man devoid of any memory. With no missing persons matching his description, and no family to speak of, the man is forced to piece together a life he cannot remember. He is haunted by dreams of a man who he thinks might be his own undiscovered past. He chases the ghost from his dreams across the nation, failing to find anything. Grand Illusion is a thought provoking look at the modern world through the lens of a post-modern alternate future. Following the tale of one man through the lens of multiple potentialities, this third novel by Scott Reed uses post-apocalyptic satire to address everything from politics, to religion, pop culture, personal communications, and love. Smith and his altar ego, David Cuddyback, traverse a complicated dystopian world searching for truth, failing to find anything in a dark world which is falling apart. Say goodbye to family and friends as the novel captivates you with a story that weaves together masterfully. Set in a near future, society decaying all around them, the alternate world of David Cuddyback is explored through his own eyes as Reed introduces you to a variety of characters with no interpersonal link, but linked at the hip by a future none of them knows will lead them on a collision course of destiny. Simultaneously set in Portland, Oregon, Cuddyback and his girlfriend Livvy wander through a crumbling society in one moment, and a fascinating array of potential parallel universes the next. The couple face many challenges in the crumbling world, and their place in that world. The book is a complex look at modern society through the eyes of parallel existence of one man, using the subtext of his different possible choices as a backdrop. All through the book lay clues to where Smith may have started, the choices that seem to destroy his life. The story of Smith climaxes with a view into the personal demons that lead him to that Columbus hospital. In the end, there will be characters you love, characters who guide you through the morass of this world with hope for a future left not so bleak as the world inhabited by its characters. Reed uses hauntingly specific details, a distorted view of the future, and magnificent prose to blend a book of life and sadness. Weary is the man whose path is unknown for he must travel in the darkness of life.

"For Aella, life on Kinamen Isle is one of boredom. Spending her days fishing and minding her aunts, she dreams of life beyond the horizon. Everything changes, however, when she awakens an ancient evil within herself as it's revealed that she's the reincarnation of Xir, the serpent that almost destroyed the world. Worse yet, a fanatical religious organization has arrived on Kinamen Isle in search of Xir. As Aella is forced to fight for her life, she'll discover that her entire world is not what it seems. Her aunts know more than they let on and what exactly does the infamous Pirate Queen want with Aella?"--