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'An amazing book, readable, funny and mind-boggling ... one of the great business books of all time' (Punch )
'Read all about it: headlong greed, inarticulate obscenity, Animal House horseplay . . .' (The Sunday Times )
'Immense verve and wit' (20/20 Magazine )
'A highly immoral book' (Daily Mail )
'Wickedly funny' (Daily Express )
'As traders would say, this book is a buy' (Financial Times )
'Read all about it: headlong greed, inarticulate obscenity, Animal House horseplay . . .' (The Sunday Times )
'Immense verve and wit' (20/20 Magazine )
'A highly immoral book' (Daily Mail )
'Wickedly funny' (Daily Express )
'As traders would say, this book is a buy' (Financial Times )
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From mere trainee to lowly geek, to triumphal Big Swinging Dick: that was Michael Lewis' pell-mell progress through the dealing rooms of Salomon Brothers in New York and London during the heady mid-1980s when they were probably the world's most powerful and profitable merchant bank.
A true-life Bonfire of the Vanities, funny, frightening, breathless and heartless, his is a tale of hysterical greed and ambition set in an obsessed, enclosed world.
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IT WAS sometime early in 1986, the first year of the decline of my firm, Salomon Brothers. Read the first page
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IT WAS sometime early in 1986, the first year of the decline of my firm, Salomon Brothers. Read the first page
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A classic with a new relevance today,
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This review is from: Liar's Poker (Hodder Great Reads) (Paperback)
Lewis' 'Liar's Poker' was an instant classic upon publication. Yet it had an adverse effect: instead of being read as the critical account it was intended to be, an entire genereation of investment banker's used this book as a 'how to' guide and a prime resource of information on how to survive on Wall Street or in the City of London.At present it attains a new relevance: the book can be read as am account of the culture that lead to the problems in the financial system.
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great picture of certain events, at a certain time for all interested in investment banking and finance,
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This review is from: Liar's Poker (Hodder Great Reads) (Paperback)
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 during these times. It gives examples of strategies and market context. More importantly it also shows you of people's greed, fear and the consequences of that. It illustrates relations within junior and senior staff in a bank like this in a very honest way. The most exciting thing about it is that the author keeps a distance to events, millions of profit, important people and institutions mentioned in the book. Few of people working inside such an institution can say that. I have recommended Liar's Poker to some people, and it seems it has changed the way they see their jobs and careers. Finally, this book makes you think - that is what good books are about.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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More fun than serious,
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This review is from: Liar's Poker: Rising through the Wreckage of Wall Street (Hardcover)
Anybody looking for a sober review of the financial markets in the 1980's and/or Salomon Brothers' role in it will be disappointed. However, as a review of one man's experience on Wall Street, it is suoerb. Michael Lewis is a wonderful storyteller, and he writes this book so that you don't need a deep knowledge of finance to enjoy it.
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