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Too Big to Fail
- The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System--and Themselves
- By: Andrew Ross Sorkin
- Narrated by: William Hughes
- Length: 21 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,879
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,995
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,987
A real-life thriller about the most tumultuous period in America's financial history by an acclaimed New York Times reporter. Andrew Ross Sorkin delivers the first true, behind-the-scenes, moment-by-moment account of how the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression developed into a global tsunami.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best Book About Meltdown
- By Chuck on 12-08-09
- Too Big to Fail
- The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System--and Themselves
- By: Andrew Ross Sorkin
- Narrated by: William Hughes
Sounds like the author wants to hang with CEOs
Reviewed: 06-27-18
I understand that this whole book is dedicated to a very certain period of time but it does a terrible job of explaining the cause of the economic crisis. From what the book says you would think that suddenly on July 1st of 2008 that all the money on Wall St. suddenly vanished in a puff of smoke. There were clear causes of this crisis and the banks were mostly to blame. and yet this book treats the firms like victims of a global conspiracy hatched to decimate modern finance.
And while it fails to explain causation, it goes into great detail into meaningless minutia. I personally don't care about Tim Gietner's tennis swing and I don't think it had an affect on US financial markets.
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The Ship of the Dead
- Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, Book 3
- By: Rick Riordan
- Narrated by: Michael Crouch
- Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,912
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,299
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,284
In the third book in Rick Riordan's epic Norse mythology series, Magnus and his friends take a boat trip to the farthest borders of Jotunheim and Niflheim in pursuit of Asgard's greatest threat. Life preservers are mandatory for this wet, wild, and wondrous adventure.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wow
- By Nicole on 11-13-17
- The Ship of the Dead
- Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, Book 3
- By: Rick Riordan
- Narrated by: Michael Crouch
Great story, narration a bit flat
Reviewed: 11-13-17
This book may have suffered from being the third of a trilogy. I had two previous performances to compare the narration to and unfortunately some of the voices for characters either felt flat or not authentic.
Still, enjoyed the story.
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Disrupted
- My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble
- By: Dan Lyons
- Narrated by: Dan Lyons
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,384
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,050
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,045
An instant New York Times best seller, Dan Lyons' "hysterical" (Recode) memoir, hailed by the Los Angeles Times as "the best book about Silicon Valley," takes listeners inside the maddening world of fad-chasing venture capitalists, sales bros, social climbers, and sociopaths at today's tech startups. For 25 years Dan Lyons was a magazine writer at the top of his profession - until one Friday morning when he received a phone call: Poof. His job no longer existed. "I think they just want to hire younger people," his boss at Newsweek told him.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Don't drink the Kool Aid
- By Margaret on 07-03-16
The economy has never scared me more.
Reviewed: 02-11-17
I've always thought of Silicon Valley making a product. Nope, just a hype factory. Great narrative and thrilling twists.
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Mothership
- The Ever-Expanding Universe, Book 1
- By: Martin Leicht, Isla Neal
- Narrated by: Connie Ventress
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 19
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 19
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 19
Elvie Nara was doing just fine in the year 2074. She had a great best friend, a dad she adored, and a bright future working on the Ares Project on Mars. But then she had to get involved with sweet, gorgeous, dumb-as-a-brick Cole - and now she's pregnant. Teen pregnancy is never easy - especially when extraterrestrials are involved....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Martin does not know how to write women
- By patrickcakestierney on 11-03-16
- Mothership
- The Ever-Expanding Universe, Book 1
- By: Martin Leicht, Isla Neal
- Narrated by: Connie Ventress
Martin does not know how to write women
Reviewed: 11-03-16
Elvee is derisive of every female character in the book. There was a character whose sole personality trait was to be the slutty one in the book and her only role was to have a gruesome and pointless death. All of the other female characters were portrayed as dumb or petty or as a super one dimensional troupe. It felt like the message of the book was "Only dumb bimbos get knocked up in high school".
There's also a lot to be said about how the alien races were designed and portrayed but honestly if the poor female characterization hasn't turned you off, that shouldn't be much of a problem either.
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