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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
The seeds of the 2007 credit crunch This is a fascinating book and doubly so for someone like me who thought that characters like Gordon Gekko (from the movie "Wall Street") are fictional. These people are real and really rich. The book follows Michael as he starts on his career at an investment bank as a naive graduate with no experience of finance. One gets the feeling that the whole time he is working there is an extended out of body experience. He spends a lot of the time, it seems, being shocked by his brash American colleagues - he... more info
great picture of certain events, at a certain time for all interested in investment banking and finance Liar's Poker offers you a journey into the world of a sophisticated money-making machine: a global investment bank. As an ex- Bankers Trust employee, I can claim I have met many people similar to the characters in the book, and I can say the characters, events, their habits appear very well pictured. Even though it is technical at times, this book is light years away from many boring books like "see how smart I was making my fortune". This book explains a lot about how money was made and lost... more info
Not life changing... The book charts the rather short career of Michael Lewis in Saloman Brothers. When you think of great works of art in ters of the selling game, you think Glengarry Glenross, Wall street, The boiler room... however this book would not come anywhere near to the enjoyability of these movies, and i have certainly read better biographies and better fiction stories. I suppose the intrigue of this book comes from the time period that Lewis worked at the company. The 80's and the demise of the Yuppie where people... more info
The Best Let me put this in the most simple of terms, this is my favourite book of all time. I have just re-read it after leaving it on the shelf for a few years, and I still love it, love it, love it. Read it, your life is not complete without it.
