Rigged: The True Story of an Ivy League Kid Who Changed the World of Oil, from Wall Street to Dubai (P.S.) |
Ben Mezrich
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| Published by | Harper Perennial |
| Release date | 2008-08-01 |
| ISBN | 0061252735 |
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After conquering the hallowed halls of Harvard Business School, an Italian-American kid from the streets of Brooklyn decides to take on the testosterone-fueled Merc Exchange in lower Manhattan?where billions of dollars in oil money trade hands every week and where fistfights are known to break out on the trading floor. Soon our hero is living the good life in the gold-lined hotel palaces of Dubai and on private yachts in Monte Carlo, teeming with half-naked girls flown in by Saudi sheikhs, and making deals in the dangerous back alleys of Beijing. But that's only the beginning. Taken under the wing of another young gun and partnering with a mysterious young Muslim, the kid embarks on a dangerous adventure to revolutionize the oil trading industry?and, along with it, the world. This is a true story.
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a remedial attempt
this is a rather lame attempt of writing a fresh story about the trade of oil in Dubai. It is choppy and collge freshman like in its approach. I struggled thru this.
Love the book, the story is very real
The storyline is smoothly layed out and very real. Interesting book and I loved the "brining down the house" by this author as well.
Just slightly better than completely useless
I picked up this book hoping it might be something on the order of "Liars Poker" or "Barbarians at the Gates" or "The Pay Pal Wars," books that imparted huge amounts of information about the businesses that they covered. Boy, was I ever disappointed.
Mezrich's characters are suitable for comic books, the business concepts he imparts are perhaps the level that would be explained to fourth-graders on a field trip, and the plot is close to non-existent. I'd say his writing is boring but it seldom rises to that level.
I trade futures and FOREX, so I know a bit about markets and finance. Most of the narrative-type business books I have read give me at least one or two important pieces of information about the business itself. What Mezrich imparts about the Merc can be put into a one-page pamphlet.
I was most of the way through this piece of dreck when I realized what the point of this book was-- Mezrich is hoping to land a movie script. He tried to write it simple and shallow enough for Hollywood mogels to understand, and he tried to incorporate glitz and money and sex.
Save your money, save your time-- skip this book. Mr. C.S.
rigged
A page turning book about a 25 year old guy from Harvard Business School who goes to work on the New York mercantile exchange trading oil. The book details his young and fast paced life, including the money, women, and exotic travel he encounters along the way. It takes you along in his journeys back and forth to Dubai (as part of an attempt to open an energy exchange there) and the opulence he encounters while there. I was fascinated by the authors accounts of the city, and it enabled me to paint a more complete picture of what has become a booming international destination.
If you like this book, you might also enjoy The Wolf of Wall Street, which is in the same genre but arguably somewhat better written.
Based on a true story, maybe, definitely not a true story
Even as a novel, it is not that well written. Mr. Mezrich is brilliant in selecting interesting topics to write about, but not brilliant enough to deliver.
After reading this book, you will gain no insight in the trading and oil businesses. Spend your time on some other more worthwhile books.
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