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The Money Culture Paperback – October 1, 1992

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The author of the best-selling Liar's Poker offers a witty, trenchant analysis of the world of high finance in the 1980s and the cult of wealth that produced such moguls as Michael Milken and Donald Trump. Reprint.
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    October 1, 1992
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  6. Dimensions
    5.1 x 0.56 x 7.78 inches
  7. ISBN-10
    0140173188
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    978-0140173185
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Essays on the money-mad '80s from the author of the bestselling Liar's Poker .
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin Books; Reprint edition (October 1, 1992)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 304 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0140173188
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0140173185
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 18 years and up
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 7.2 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.1 x 0.56 x 7.78 inches
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Michael Lewis, the best-selling author of The Undoing Project, Liar's Poker, Flash Boys, Moneyball, The Blind Side, Home Game and The Big Short, among other works, lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife, Tabitha Soren, and their three children.

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Customers find the book easy to read and entertaining. They appreciate the good writing style and humor. However, some readers feel the material is dated and not very informative. There are mixed opinions on the information quality - some find it interesting and entertaining, while others consider it repetitious and not essential reading.

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29 customers mention "Readability"21 positive8 negative

Customers find the book easy to read and entertaining. They say it's a good companion piece to The Big Short and Flash Boys for context. The essays make it a convenient carry-along read.

"Enjoyable book. If you lived through the turbulent late '80's you will recognize the subplots...." Read more

"Michael Lewis never fails to make the journey worthwhile...." Read more

"...This was an audio book so I also like the reader." Read more

"...at least the 2-3 page length of the essays would make this a good carry-along read, to pick up whenever I had a minute or two...." Read more

8 customers mention "Writing style"8 positive0 negative

Customers find the writing style easy to read and well-written. However, some readers felt the content was lacking in depth.

"Interesting book, and well written as are ALL of Michael Lewis's works...." Read more

"...As such they are a mixed bag both in content and writing style...." Read more

"Great writer, obviously dated material. Some good nuggets on politics and finance that stand test of time. Not essential reading...." Read more

"Michael Lewis is a. Clear writer who leads the reader into the strange world of soulless bankers and financial houses." Read more

6 customers mention "Humor"6 positive0 negative

Customers enjoy the humor in the book. They find the cultures section educational and entertaining.

"...He also does it with incredible humor...." Read more

"...our money cultures is affecting other cultures was educational and entertaining." Read more

"...The stories are frequently hilarious, although now they may seem a little dated...." Read more

"Another example of Lewis's fine and humorous financial writing." Read more

13 customers mention "Information quality"9 positive4 negative

Customers have different views on the book's information quality. Some find it interesting and well-written, with entertaining articles. They say it provides great information about New York and is easy to read. However, others feel it lacks substance and is not essential reading.

"Interesting book, and well written as are ALL of Michael Lewis's works...." Read more

"...It is a good book to learn about New York also." Read more

"This is not as good as other books by Michael Lewis. Less informative, less interesting and just not as well put together...." Read more

"An excellent collection of Lewis' articles from the late 80s and early 90s...." Read more

4 customers mention "Dated material"0 positive4 negative

Customers find the book's material outdated. They mention that many of the vignettes are so old-fashioned that they need to be footnoted.

"...That, and so many of the vignettes are so badly dated that they have to be footnoted that "This piece was originally written in 199x" to keep them..." Read more

"Great writer, obviously dated material. Some good nuggets on politics and finance that stand test of time. Not essential reading...." Read more

"Michael Lewis is as reliably excellent as he always is. The book is a bit dated in 2012, since we've heard about this stuff for so many years, but..." Read more

"...Very old news except perhaps a few observations on Tokyo and earthquakes. I consider this deceptive marketing on the part of Amazon." Read more

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  • Lohi
    5.0 out of 5 stars Old story nice read
    Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2016
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    Enjoyable book. If you lived through the turbulent late '80's you will recognize the subplots. If not, it is a fairly good diary ( story ) of those times and some of the players. But, one consistency, Michael Lewis continues to shed light on the myriad of ways Wall Street banking types line their pockets with unsuspecting target's money.
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  • S. T. Sullivan
    3.0 out of 5 stars Not Lewis's Best Work
    Reviewed in the United States on February 4, 2008
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    Michael Lewis wrote one of the great popular books about Wall Street, Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street. It is a classic of what life was like on Wall Street during the time when mortgage backed securities, something we're hearing a lot about currently, was just getting off the ground. He also wrote the bestseller Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, which is a great baseball book. This collection of pieces written right before and after Liar's Poker is all right, but it is not his best work.

    I have a high tolerance for bad writing if I am interested in the subject manner, but even I had trouble getting through some of the early pieces in here. Perhaps Lewis had to get all this poor sophomoric writing out of his system before he could write decent books. If the pieces collected in Money Culture are what it takes to get to Moneyball, then so be it.

    Still, from a reader's standpoint, don't bother with this one, read Liar's Poker and Moneyball instead.
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  • Richard Haight
    4.0 out of 5 stars Meh, so now what?
    Reviewed in the United States on December 4, 2014
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    Interesting book, and well written as are ALL of Michael Lewis's works. Nevertheless, as interesting and informative as it is.... in the end, it offers no solutions, and when you turn the last page you are left with the feeling of "OK, now what? That's it?" After revealing all of the schemes, regulations and methods used to scam the market.... ANNNNND the vast majority of investors, the book needs to suggest or outline those ways that the system needs to be changed to absolutely STOP the continued use of these methods, and to force the exchanges to cease and desist assisting the various HFT organizations, and to block the various Goldman - Sachs's of the world from EVER being involved in ANY banking or stock market activity in the future.....
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  • Brandon Kuring
    5.0 out of 5 stars Best book ever written on the recent Financial crisis in 2007-08
    Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2018
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    Michael Lewis never seems to fail at making a complex topic seem very simple. He also does it with incredible humor. This book takes you on a wild ride that'll definitely make you put the book down at times and go "were these people serious?!"...in the first 80 pages of this you'll already see why 2007-08 happened, and then you'll realize you have 200 more pages of this craziness to go!
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  • Michael Bumann
    5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting Literary Jaunt
    Reviewed in the United States on August 28, 2016
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    Michael Lewis never fails to make the journey worthwhile. His views of of how our money cultures is affecting other cultures was educational and entertaining.
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  • Daddy man
    3.0 out of 5 stars Alright
    Reviewed in the United States on January 17, 2020
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    Overall I would say it's just alirght. It's a little outdated for 2020. This is not a typical Michael Lewis story as this book is made up of a bunch of smaller stories from the US, Japan and London in the 1980's. I've read almost all of Michael Lewis's books and this one is easily the least desirable one I've read thus far.
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  • Paul S. Bodine
    4.0 out of 5 stars Early Lewis
    Reviewed in the United States on March 29, 2023
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    These pieces capture Lewis in early career, more a story-chasing journalist than a fly-on-the-wall explicator game-changing epoch-defining economic trends. Though dated and less inspired than his later books, this is still vintage Lewis.
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  • john Kroeger
    5.0 out of 5 stars Good writing
    Reviewed in the United States on October 10, 2013
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    Good story about finance and I love the way Mike Lewis writes his story.This was an audio book so I also like the reader.
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  • David Smyth
    5.0 out of 5 stars A great storyteller.
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 8, 2021
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    Michael Lewis is perhaps the best writer working today. Even if the subject might not at first grab you, Lewis will engage you right from the start with his plain, honest, and naturally humorous style. Check out Liar's Poker too.
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  • Amazon Customer
    2.0 out of 5 stars Worse than others works from Lewis.
    Reviewed in Spain on January 7, 2017
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    Not a book. Random articles. Not really that interesting. I was used to something excellent by Michael Lewis, and this is not the case,
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  • Nivedan Bharadwaj
    3.0 out of 5 stars Early years
    Reviewed in India on March 3, 2016
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    Decent read. He has obviously become a better author since his early days. I did enjoy this book in parts.
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  • K. Turnbull
    4.0 out of 5 stars Insightful. Hard to believe this really occurred!
    Reviewed in Canada on May 29, 2015
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    Insightful.
    Hard to believe this really occurred!
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  • Cyriac
    1.0 out of 5 stars The Mney Cultutre
    Reviewed in India on March 29, 2015
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    This book seems to be his first attempt. It is not as good as the later works.There is not much information to be had from this book.
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