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An eccentric billionaires mind at work

Advantages: Well written insight into the mind of a billionaire
Disadvantages: none

...Best-selling author Michael Lewis sets out to find the worlds most important technology entrepreneur, the man who embodies the spirit of the coming age. He finds him in Jim Clark, who is about to create his third billion dollar company, Healtheon. After ...

aitchison21 04.02.2001 · Read full review
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Review of The New New Thing - Michael Lewis

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Great book about Netscape pioneer Jim Clar

Advantages: entertaining, informative, great insight into Jim Clar
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Michael Lewis' book about the Internet billionaire Jim Clark is an incisive insight into the man who helped create the boom in Silicon Valley. Lewis writes in an informal witty style, he's followed Jim Clark around trying to get under the skin of the man ...

sammmie_uk 04.08.2000 · Read full review
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Swim with the sharks

Advantages: Reads at a great pace
Disadvantages: A little too much technical detail

Michael Lewis, the author, was once a trader in the 1980s and made a fortune out of the investment banking arena. This story is his real life account of what it was to be a trader in London and New York and become one with the shark, in the deep murky wa ...

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Review of Liar's Poker - Michael Lewis

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liar's poker

Advantages: Reads like a novel whilst also giving a great insite into the powerhouse institutions of the 80's
Disadvantages: technical terminology could be a problem for some, occaisionaly loses focus

One of my electives at university is Technical Analysis and market psychology, and my lecturer (a very successful trader in his own right) recommended this book to all of us students. I can now say that i am very glad that i followed his advice and bought ...

curious_george 11.03.2007 · Read full review
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