Extremely important book about an extremely important topic, but so complicated to get through with the Wall Street terminology, and I've been to business school for both undergrad and grad school. However, even if you don't understand CDO tranches and buy/sell lingo, there is something big to th...
I read Michael Lewis' book "Flash Boys" and thoroughly enjoyed it, so I then bought a used copy of "Liar's Poker," one of his older books. This is a story of Lewis' first days as a bond trader, working for Goldman Sachs. While I did find parts of the book intriguing, much of it was also disturb...
This is Michael Lewis’s follow-up to “The Big Short,” in which he exposes the latest round of Wall Street’s fleecing of the common investor. Like “The Big Short,” Michael Lewis does an admirable job explaining technical details in layman’s terms, though I found the concepts more complicated even ...
Reading Moneyball, now nine years after it was first released, confirms for me that I, a fanatical baseball fan, am an idiot for having spent the last nine years not reading Moneyball. It's the equivalent of a huge physics and astronomy nerd blowing off reading Stephen Hawking for nearly a decade...
The book I read was called The Blind Side. This was an exciting book and I overall really enjoyed it. There were some twists and turns during the plot, which made it very interesting. While reading the book, I kept in mind that this was based on a true story. The story of Michael Oher is a great ...
2 stars for entertainment. 3 stars for dry biographical information about a guy and the computer industry in the 1990s.REVIEWER’S OPINION:I read three other nonfiction books by this author and was fascinated. But this book was not as entertaining. It was dry. It felt like newspaper journalism...