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Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis
4.0

Lewis is an addictive writer. You never want to put his stuff down, and he is often riotously funny. But I did come away from this (and from [b:The Blind Side|7526|The Blind Side Evolution of a Game|Michael Lewis|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165626048s/7526.jpg|808779]) with the feeling that the whole is less than the sum of its parts. The individual episodes are fantastic, but at the end you realize that it's a little weak as a single long narrative. Lewis isn't great at keeping to linear explanation, and at times that fails his purpose.

I don't want to let that dissuade anyone from reading this, though. The first third of the book alone is worth the list price and it's awfully readable the whole way through.