Liars Poker by Michael Lewis.
1. If you are looking for entertainment, you are in the wrong place. this book somehow made the New York Times Bestseller list, I would only recommend it if you love textbooks
2. If you love textbooks, you will not read anything you do not already know. This book describes stocks, bonds, equity, and the like, but is heavy reading without giving you any insight into how things are run on Wall Street.
3. A 250 page book took me over two weeks to read. That is disgusting. This is not a quick read, it definitely was the hardest book I have read since college. (That is not because of being uneducated in the stock market) I honestly cannot count how many times this book put me to sleep, and the average is over two times per day.
If anybody has any GOOD recommendations, they are more than welcome!
2 comments:
ZJ-
I have to disagree. I thought Liar's Poker was about as far from a textbook as it gets. Lewis is more of a story teller, not a professor.
Though there are some dense financial bits, I found it to be an entertaining work of non-fiction.
What, specifically, did you find academic about it?
GT
honestly, worst book I have read since sophomore year in high when I was forced to read Catcher in the Rye. Although they are different in fiction and non-fiction, both had similar points, which are zero
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