|  | Creator: Michael Lewis
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.
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Rating:  40 reviews
Sales Rank: 39251
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 352
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.2 x 1.4
ISBN: 0393065146
Dewey Decimal Number: 338.542
EAN: 9780393065145
ASIN: 0393065146
Publication Date: November 17, 2008
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 Disappointing March 12, 2009
D. Bressler (Lisle, Illinois USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is just a series of articles from different authors, in large part dealing not with the current mess but the market crash in the late '80s. The articles are often not even reproduced in full, only exerpts, so its very choppy. I like Michael Lewis as a writer, and thought I was gettng something he had written, but other than a few articles, that was not the case. While its nevertheless interesting, it is not what I thought it would be.
An accumulation of a number of different pieces to help explain what was going on in some tough times. March 6, 2009
P. Beattie (Atlanta, GA United States)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
An accumulation of a number of different pieces to help explain what was going on in some tough times.
 Know what you are buying February 21, 2009
UpTheMetro (New York, NY)
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
It is completely amazing to me that the majority of reviewers here are reading a book about money, yet they don't care about their personal finances at all. Many have purchased a book thinking it was written by Michael Lewis (most of which was not) and were disappointed by it. Several of these people have rated the book poorly. Not because the writing was sub par, but rather because they enjoy throwing their money around without doing any research. If I knew it was not solely written by Lewis how come they didn't? How can you rate a book poorly due to your own fault? I would like to mention that the final pages of the book indicate that none of the authors received compensation and proceeds will be going to charity.
As for the actual book, I enjoyed most of it. The organization of the articles provided a good chronological picture of the events that occurred. It was a good mix of articles with general overviews and articles on very specific subjects. The downsides were some of the articles were a little lengthy, and more narratives by Lewis could have filled in some informational gaps.
Useful summary of financial insanity, 1987-2006 February 19, 2009
Richard Gibson (Woodland Hills, CA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a collection of re-printed essays on the major financial crises which have occurred between 1987 and 2006. We start with Black Monday, move on to the Long Term Capital Management debacle, take a tour through the East Asian financial crisis, move into the Internet bubble and wind up with the real estate boom and crash.
With a few exceptions, the essays were all written at or near the time of the events themselves. The point of this is to re-create the actual feeling of the time. This is often interesting. Its drawback, of course, is that journalists, at the time, rarely have much perspective on events. The net result is that the book is long on local color, but short on comprehensive analysis.
For my money, the best part of the book was about the East Asian crisis. I just read Paul Krugman on this, in the Return to Depression Economics. He was as clear as mud on this issue. These essays, however, made sense of the Asian crisis. The weakest part of the book, in my mind, is the real estate crisis. I have been doing a good deal of reading on that subject, and the essays here added close to nothing to my understanding.
A Collection of Essays, Not a Story February 17, 2009
Donald Ryan (Mount Vernon, Ohio, USA)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Granted, Mr. Lewis is very up front that he is not the sole author of this book but it was just a collection of essays. I could have saved the money and gone to Google and pulled the info up. A far cry from Liar's Poker.
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