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    American Sucker
    American Sucker
    American Sucker
    Audiobook (abridged)9 hours

    American Sucker

    Written by David Denby

    Narrated by David Boutsikaris

    3.5/5

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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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHighbridge Company
    Release dateJan 19, 2004
    ISBN9781598871463
    American Sucker
    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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    • 4/5
      Lots 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.
    • 5/5
      When 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.