157 reviews for:

Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco

Bryan Burrough, John Helyar

4.21 AVERAGE

maeve832's review against another edition

4.0

medium-paced

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Very good non fiction book. 

walker5510's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous funny tense fast-paced

tamosi's review against another edition

2.0

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A good story with way too many details.

twconroy's review against another edition

5.0

informative slow-paced

taylort1997's review against another edition

4.0

dark informative reflective slow-paced

jprendy's review against another edition

5.0

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Enthralling. Highly recommend

dayoldtea's review against another edition

4.0

informative slow-paced

loslibros's review against another edition

4.5

informative reflective tense medium-paced

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This is a remarkable achievement in narrative nonfiction. The events of a corporate buyout should be boring, even torturous, to read about. Instead, this book reads like a fictional thriller. 

I knew it was a good book when I found myself rooting for people who, politically, I should disdain.

literary_journalism's review against another edition

0.5

slow-paced

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Didn't finish. Incredibly dull. Why would anyone read a book about a takeover of a mid-sized company? Yawn. 

sudorm's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous informative tense medium-paced