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 ...
"There are teachers with a rare ability to enter a child's mind; it's as if their ability to get there at all gives them the right to stay forever." There was a turning point in Michael Lewis's life, in a baseball game when he was fourteen years old. The irascible and often terrifying Coach Fitz ...
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...
It read like an extra credit question on an algebra quiz: You have $40 million to spend on twenty-five baseball players. Your opponent has already spent $126 million on its own twenty-five players, and holds perhaps another $100 million in reserve. What do you do with your forty million to avoid ...
The boy was in many ways unlikely. He had never thought of himself as a football player, and didn’t have the first idea what the fuss was all about. The event was a shift in football strategy that raised, dramatically, the value of the one role on the football field the boy was uniquely suited to...
It was an article in The New Yorker by John Seabrook, in which the author hunted down a man named Ferber, whose research gave birth to a cold-blooded method of training babies to sleep. As I recall, Seabrook and his wife had been made miserable by their newborn’s tendency to holler through the ni...