I've always been of two minds on Michael Lewis. On the one hand, he's a great writer. A really great writer. And to make it even better, he's a great writer who's also a good reporter. You can't ask for more than that, really.
On the other hand, there's something a little infuriating about someone who willingly takes advantage of a situation which he knows full well is crazy. Liar's Poker was a great book, but there's a weird smugness about someone trying to tell people how stupid and corrupt the financial brokerage system is after he takes several hundred thousand dollars from that system.
But ultimately, this seems a small quibble. Lewis is the real deal. And here he is revisiting Wall Street at the end times. It's pretty great.
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I respect Lewis specifically because he extracted buckets of ducats from Salomon, and lived to write about it. And that he wooed Tabitha Soren. And his work on Moneyball.
Who am I kidding. He nabbed Tabitha Soren. That's quite well done.
I just finished "The Blind Side" and not only is it an amazing book about the evolution of football strategy, but it is an amazing book about Christian love ("And Moses Stuttered").
Meanwhile, I have to get back to the Spongebob Squarepants Movie...I've seen it with my kids over 10 times and it never gets old. Hasselhoff rules!
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