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Flash Boys

Michael Lewis

published: 2014, read: 7/9/18
288 pages, genre: Biography
rating: 7/10, normalized: 6.667/10
-0.23σ worse than average
-0.026σ or -0.017/10 worse than average in Biography genre
-1σ or -0.375/10 worse than average by Michael Lewis
-0.073σ or -0.036/10 worse than average recommended by Jack M.
Recommended by: Jack M.

Michael Lewis is good at making the reader feel smart and informed. I really like his writing style, and this book is no exception. Manages to make an eye-glazingly technical crisis into a cool and digestible bio piece

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