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    <body><![CDATA[Originally written as a satire in the mid'90s, Bombardiers now reads as an unheeded warning call to all the economists, politicians, and other business leaders who weren't paying attention to the absurd and unsustainable business practices occurring right under their noses. Po Bronson takes a direct...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48197826">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It's no coincidence that I picked up Po Bronson's &quot;Bombardiers&quot; at a time when the real-world financial markets are in turmoil. It's been on my bookshelf for a while now; not even really in the &quot;to read&quot; pile -- more accurately the &quot;I happen to own this book&quot; pile. Seve...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33972965">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It's strange to me that this book got favorable reviews from the business press when it portrays the world of high finance in such a deeply cynical light. That might attest to its veracity, and if so, that is truly disturbing. Bombardiers takes place in San Francisco - one reason I read it - but it ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24352741">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[At this moment in history, when the fate of the US (and other economies) has been brought down in no small part by greed in the banking and mortgage industries, this seems like a telling indictment of that industry. While Bronson stopped working as a broker after writing this book in the mid-90s, I ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62004128">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a comic novel about the financial industry.  It's very timely, despite being set and written in the late '90s.  It's more Catch-22 than Bonfire of the Vanities, and Bronson is mostly successful with his over-the-top characters and situations.  <br/><br/>Make-you-think funny; not laugh-out-...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55555553">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I've started re-reading this and it's very nearly as good as I remember.  It may be a novel, but it does more to explain the mind-set that led to our current financial melt-down than most of the news commentary or political posturing.  I'd recommend it anyway but especially in these times.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[reading this for the second time!  One of Bronson's very early works, and it's a fun one, from back when he just wrote fiction!  thinly veiled real companies and characters populate this prankish romp through high finance.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A pretty good picture of what trading is like.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is probably the funniest book I've ever read, if the number of times laughing out loud in a room by myself or number of minutes spent reading with a fixed, apoplectic grin on my face are acceptable criteria. There is a book called Personal Days, by Ed Park, that I'm thinking of buying but perha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26242130">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It was odd.  I didn't really get into it until I had a 3 hour train journey and I sat and finished the book off.  Not one to be read in small time slots - you really need to devote a lot of time to this book.<br/><br/>The story wasn't really apparent at the beginning and it seemed to jump around a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1536590">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is impossible to rate.  On the one hand, it took me nearly eight months to get through this book, because it was such a depressing satirical indictment of capitalism.  On the other hand, I could never just walk away from it because it was such a brilliant satirical indictment of capitalism...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7455201">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[While it is a shameless homage to Catch-22, it is a particularly timely read during the recent market turmoils.<br/>Read it if you want to understand how investment banking works, and have a few laughs at the expense of your retirement account.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Similar to LiarÕs Poker, although I remember laughing out loud more at that. You care a little more about these characters though. Set in a SF bond salesman floor, and, naturally, everything about it is utterly twisted.&quot;]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[i love po bronson, so i thought i'd really like this book.  but it was very hard to get into, and i didnt really start enjoying it until the end.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Excellent if only for the opening chapter where Bronson likens the office to a spaceship rising above the dense fog of a San Francisco morning. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Good book...informative view of the bond trading world...I have been told that it is a very accurate portrayal...if so...wow...we are screwed.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the best book on what it's really like to work on a trading floor I've ever read.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Perfect Update to Glengarry Glenross. Helping me through the Gensler Fiasco.<br/>]]></body>
    
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