Too big to fail

It's hard to say that a 535 page book never drags but it never really did. It's written as a novel of the week that nearly killed the American financial system and is a fascinating read if you can take the detail.

The hardest part is keeping all of the “characters” straight but Sorkin provides 8 pages of who is who and who they work for at the beginning if someone can't be remembered.

All in all a fantastic book (again if you are into this sort of thing). Certainly not for everyone but a homerun for those who have an interest in finance and/or government.

Absolutely gripping read of the near-collapse of the US banking system.

I work in the industry so I watched all of this unfold on CNBC, but these first-person accounts are fascinating.

If you're remotely interested in what happened I highly recommend that you read this book.

This book is a must read to understand how the financial crisis was handled by the companies involved in the meltdown, as well as the administration officials who were attempting to stave off a complete meltdown. This book reads like a novel and is the kind of book you just can't put down. It helps to humanize the “masters of the universe” as they struggled to save their companies, and in many cases, their own significant investments in their companies.

While there are some inaccuracies in how the author interpreted how investments were perceiving the crisis (esp in the excerpt from Vanity Fair), they seem to have been corrected in the Kindle version and do not take away from the narrative which is told.