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bosun_knows's review against another edition
informative
sad
fast-paced
3.5
Michael Lewis is good at this. But the whole thing is sort of like watching a train wreck in slow motion. As abstract as all of the crypto stuff is, the personal loss, chaos, and destruction the behaviors caused are real indeed. In focusing on SBF, Lewis touches on this briefly, but that's what stuck with me.
linwang77's review against another edition
3.0
I’m not a huge fan of non fiction so the fact that I read this in one night is probably a good sign. Although maybe that’s just because I was reading it for the work gossip. I haven’t read any of Michael Lewis’ other books, but I could totally see how he was basically writing this to become a movie a la big short. I read a review that was like “oh he still didn’t answer the question of who SBF is” but I think he did. Basically a guy born with little emotional capacity but a lot of intellectual capacity who got rewarded for that at a young age and therefore felt little consequence to change and reinforcement that he was doing the right thing. I do think Lewis drank a little of the koolaid from his time with SBF and maybe that made him write SBF as more unknowable and mysterious rather than a fraud and deeply narcissistic.
jlink17's review against another edition
challenging
informative
mysterious
reflective
fast-paced
4.75
webdoyenne's review against another edition
3.0
I like Michael Lewis a lot, but this book kind of made my skin crawl. Felt like I needed to take a shower after I finished it.
jetia13's review against another edition
2.5
I almost didn't finish because I didn't really care, but then I did. Terrible accounting.