Liar's Poker : Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street (Hardcover)

from jobinsonlis

The three things I've gleaned from this book are as follows: 1) I don't understand anything about Wall Street and finance, 2) the people that work on Wall Street and in finance also don't really un...

from NocturnalBlue

Reading it, I was thought it was a brilliant, funny encapsulation of the "greed is good" 80's ethos. Then I realized that once you adjusted the numbers for inflation, this book could have been writ...

from jrgoetziii

Not quite what I thought it would be but one has to give Lewis credit for great humor and an ability to make the arcane readable. His descriptions of high finance make complete sense, which is hard...

from SeriousGrace

For some reason people can't bring up Liar's Poker without mentioning Bonfire of the Vanities as well. It's almost as if Liar's Poker is the nonfiction counterpart to the fictional Bonfire of the V...

from jontseng

The closest thing to the definitive account of high finance yet. Although the fact it hasn't been bettered in the last fifteen years says a lot about the relative attractiveness for BSDs of making ...