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Summary: Let's help ANDY get richer
Review: This is a book I would love to buy at a garage sale for .09 cents. It's fun to read and the guys got a great attitude. However, I paid way too much for this book - considering how many great books are out there. But then again, I'll buy a $95 stock and watch it go down to $9.50. So what do I know ...
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Summary: Excellent
Review: This is a humor classic. Borowitz has outdone himself this time. If you are in the stock market on any level, BUY THIS BOOK!
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Summary: so funny I laughed out loud in the shop like a fool
Review: This is so very, very, very funny. There is not much I can add to the other reviews except this: maybe it won't make you laugh (one reviewer hated it) but it probably will, it is very witty, if you trade at all you will know what it is talking about. This book is GOOD FOR YOUR HEALTH !!! Laughter is good, especially laughing at yourself in trading ... trading is serious business, but you don't have to take it seriously, it is better to keep lighthearted and clear headed. This book will make you laugh at yourself, and may help you make better decisions instead of getting caught up in spite, anger, frustration, aggravation. For that reason it is very valuable. You won't find trading strategies or anything like that in it though, it is a comedy book. I think it would make a great present for anyone who trades, I know that if someone bought it for me as a present I would be exceptionally pleased, there are hundreds of uncontrollable laughs in this book, and that is good for your heart. I realise it is quite pricey, but I've paid more to see movies that weren't nearly as funny as this little gem. Uh-oh, market's closing, gotta go......
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Summary: Brilliant satire from a very funny writer
Review: When one of my friends told me that this was the funniest book he'd ever read, I was skeptical, but I bought it anyway. When I kept my wife up half the night as I read the book in bed, laughing like a fiend, I had to admit he was right. Andy Borowitz, a laugh-out-loud writer whose work I'd seen in The New Yorker, has taken as his target our current obsession with money, the stock market, and instant wealth -- and he's hit a satirical bullseye. From the hysterical charts (How Day Trading Works: Buy Stock--Visit Sex Sites--Sell Stock--Become Trillionaire) to the ludicrous "Hot Stock Tips" (...a personal favorite of mine) to the "first person" accounts of Mountain Dew-swigging, Maria Bartiromo-obsessed, bathrobe-clad daytraders, Borowitz doesn't take any prisoners in this book. For the record, my favorite humor writers are Steve Martin, Dave Barry, and David Sedaris. After reading this screamingly funny book, you'd have to put Andy Borowitz up there, too.
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Summary: The Trillionaire Where?
Review: When you get tired of reading through dreary stock market books, grab this one and head off to the park. Relax for an hour or so as humorist Andy Borowitz makes light of even the most serious of Wall Street's protestations as he educates you to his "The Ten Principles of Day Trading." Drum roll, please.
Of course, stocks have always been a favorite target of humorists. Mark Twain: "October: This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February." Or try Will Rogers: "Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it." The strange thing about humor is that there's usually a lot of truth underneath.
Now we get Borowitz, the satirist, in his best form to expose The *Recent* Emperor's New Clothes. From the computer cowboys riding their monitors from dawn to dusk (and into the night), to the official corporate and governmental pronouncements, to the analysts' hype, to the media's cheerleading, to our own self-delusions, everything and everyone comes in for a good drubbing. Reminds me of taking what we thought we were supposed to be serious about during the mania and hanging it out on the line for sport. Makes us look silly. And looking back at it with 5 years hindsight, you really wouldn't want to see that home movie showing how you explained to the children that you were getting rich in the great boom either. About the only sign of the times Borowitz didn't pulverize was the major TV network news programs profiling movie stars and taxicab drivers as prescient stock pickers. That just had to be the final signal that a top was near, and ranks right up there with the bellhops of 1929. A good, quick read, and a lot of fun too. Refer back to it next time things get too good to be true.
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Summary: A bestseller that's funny and smart
Review: With plenty of graphs and charts that will likely appear above the desks of day traders across the country, The Trillionaire Next Door serves its intended purpose: to make a good birthday gift for your favorite day trading uncle. Andy Borowitz has had a successful career as a humorist, with contributions to The New York Times and The New Yorker. He has also worked in television, creating and executive-producing the sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. But in this book, he takes his cues from another noted humorist, Dave Barry. Like Barry, Borowitz has a knack for turning the obvious on its head in the name of humor. Many of the book's best jokes come from the author's willful misunderstanding of economic terms and principles. For example, he defines a "dartboard portfolio" as "a portfolio assembled by throwing darts at a newspaper's stock listings mounted on a dartboard." He accompanies this definition, of course, with a dartboard "chart." Borowitz also has un with the persona he creates for himself: the no-talent day trading trillionaire. He is slovenly and bleary-eyed, with terrible eating and sleeping habits. He probably wakes up in the mornings with keyboard imprints on his cheek. After quoting a passage from Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations," Borowitz asks, "Say what? I didn't see anything about 'pointing,' 'clicking,' or any of the other things day traders do, did you?" But he relies on valuable investing advice, like how important it is to invest in companies with "e-" as a prefix or "dot-com" at the end. And in today's economy, Borowitz suggests, that knowledge is enough to become a trillionaire. Borowitz's book draws attention to all the nuances of this day trading culture, a virtual network that connects various cavernous lives, each cave seemingly containing a single, frustrated middle-aged man drinking coffee, eating pizza, and taking breaks to visit porn sites -- not to mention watching CNBC. Borowitz zestfully pokes fun at these odball rituals.
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