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This sort of shoddiness with facts is becoming a concerning pattern for Michael Lewis. He's a great writer, but he really doesn't seem to have a close relations
by pclmulqdq 3y ago
This sort of shoddiness with facts is becoming a concerning pattern for Michael Lewis. He's a great writer, but he really doesn't seem to have a close relationship with the truth. Two other examples:
* Everything about the blind side that is now coming out in court.
* The founders of IEX who are now begging the market making firms to come to the exchange which was designed to get rid of them... and creating a much worse two-tiered system in order to do it.
The next time I try a Michael Lewis book, I am probably going to approach it as a puff piece for a local Bond villain to get a more accurate picture of what's happening.
- alexose 3y agoYes, I would say that's a good assessment. Anyone who's read Michael Lewis should have similar instincts: He's a great storyteller with a sixth sense for what makes characters jump off a page. But he is not a journalist, and he is does not act as a moral compass for the reader. I certainly do not share his credulity of financial services sector.
- forinti 3y agoI read his books as fiction or quasi-journalism and enjoy them thoroughly. I like Gay Talese too; he seems to write closer to the truth, but I wouldn't mind if it were just fiction, because it is so well written.