Audiobook (abridged)9 hours
American Sucker
Written by David Denby
Narrated by David Boutsikaris
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
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About this audiobook
Join David Denby, New Yorker critic and otherwise sensible man, on a whirlwind ride through an exuberant stock market, investment feeding frenzy, and the cataclysmic result of greed and illusion.
Author
David Denby
David Denby has been film critic and staff writer at The New Yorker since 1998; prior to that he was film critic of New York magazine. His reviews and essays have also appeared in The New Republic, The Atlantic, and The New York Review of Books. He lives in New York City.
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Reviews for American Sucker
Rating: 3.4791666583333334 out of 5 stars
3.5/5
24 ratings2 reviews
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lots of financial stuff but an interesting account of his mid-life crisis when his wife left him and he tried to make a million dollars in tech stocks while the tech bubble was collapsing.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5When David Denby's wife left him, he became obsessed by the idea of earning enough ($1e6)quickly on the stock market to buy his half of the family's Manhattan apartment. What follows is an honest account of his failure. Within the book there were two separate stories. The first is what the book proports to be about - in fact Denby did earn his money, he just rapidly lost it. The second is the "how the other half lives" portion. For those of us who don't know - the opening line "I'm a movie reviewer for the New Yorker" opens a lot of doors. Through this Denby was able to not only interview, but intertwine, with a number of the big players in the NASDAQ bubble. His descriptions of these meetings are choice.