The Big Short : Inside the Doomsday Machine (Paperback)

from jawalter

A little bit nauseating, but undeniably brilliant. Lewis explores some of the same territory covered by This American Life and Planet Money in their great deconstructions of the 2009 financial meltdown, but manages to make it feel fresh and interesting.Admittedly, the book does tend to get a bit ...

from ElectricRay

Michael Lewis is one of the most gifted and entertaining writers today - anyone who has read his reputation-forming Liar's Poker will know this (if you haven't, and you aspire to a career in finance, you should), but his subsequent offerings, particularly the singularly brilliant Moneyball have a...

from TheAmpersand

An absolutely riveting "financial thriller" that describes how three groups of investors, working independently, managed to win big betting against an overinflated housing market. Lewis, who's intimately familiar with the subject of monetary misadventure, uses these intertwined narratives as a to...

from hugh_ashton

This is not an easy book to get on with. Don't expect the easy style of Moneyball or Liar's Poker, let alone The Blind Side. For one thing, this is a lot more serious than baseball. Not that Michael Lewis doesn't do a great job of explaining what went on in the back rooms and trading desks of Wal...

from hugh_ashton

I think this is the best one that Michael Lewis has produced so far, in terms of content. I started it the evening I got it, and woke up early the next morning to finish it. Maybe Moneyball was a little more accessible - after all, second- and third-order derivatives are, almost by definition, co...