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dusang 's review for:
Too Big to Fail
by Andrew Ross Sorkin
This book suffers from having both too narrow and too wide a scope. To limit the narrative to the period between the Bear Stearns sale (March 2008) to TARP (October 2008) is like entering the story in the final chapter -- there's a man on the ledge, we're just never really clear on how he got there. Simultaneously, the overall story of Wall Street includes so many actors and institutions, it makes Game of Thrones look like a Dr. Suess book. Trying to track the individual actions of all of these people through overlapping discussions and trades is almost physically impossible -- making much of the book confusing and tedious.
I suspect Mr. Sorkin was aiming for an Eichenwald narrative, akin to [b:Conspiracy of Fools: A True Story|29519|Conspiracy of Fools A True Story|Kurt Eichenwald|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1320542577s/29519.jpg|1160426] but it just doesn't work with this many characters.
Also, much like Game of Thrones, it turns out that many of the leads are blithering idiots, making the whole thing strangely unsatisfying.
I suspect Mr. Sorkin was aiming for an Eichenwald narrative, akin to [b:Conspiracy of Fools: A True Story|29519|Conspiracy of Fools A True Story|Kurt Eichenwald|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1320542577s/29519.jpg|1160426] but it just doesn't work with this many characters.
Also, much like Game of Thrones, it turns out that many of the leads are blithering idiots, making the whole thing strangely unsatisfying.