I have been having the best 3 weeks of my life. For once, I loved what I was studying. It wasn't just plain reading and facts crunching. This was actually what I'm really interested in. Having read the book" Too Big Too Fail" just makes everything so intriguing and fascinating. What ever I learnt in lectures helped me further understand what actually went wrong in wall street 08. From lectures to this book, and back from this book to lectures, it fits perfectly like a puzzle.
If I were not doing this course I might have found this book meticulously dry. But it clearly wasn't.
Too Big Too Fail is a perfect example of a textbook translated into a novel for all ages. Anyone along the streets can pick this book up and be fully owned by it. The Economist had it right; "It is just too good to put down". Andrew Ross Sorkin gives his readers an uncontaminated view of what happened in Wall Street during the faithful year of 2008. No elaborated frills and sugar coating of opinions. Just plain action. He carefully, intricately and systematically laid out the series of events that unfolded before every key players' eyes in the 08 debacle. Sorkin invited his readers into the world of such complicated politics but yet made it so irresistably easy to be absorbed by it. He gave the book its own voice and soul. With so many key characters of such diversity and personality, Sorkin made it effortless. He mindfully opened the secret doors and gave the public access into the backstage of the modern age Great Depression where some of the most powerful and influential men played. Like a classic thriller fictional novel; Too Big Too Fail is filled with anticipation, excitement and drama.
However the only difference is,
It is not Fiction.
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