After Michael Lewis blew me away with "Moneyball" and "The Blind Side", I made sure to grab his first book, "Liar's Poker." Lewis didn't originally start as a writer; he became a bond trader at Salomon Brothers in the mid-1980s after graduate school. That gave him a front row seat on some of the greatest excesses the decade of greed had to offer. Think Gordon Gekko. It was a weird and chaotic period, which makes for interesting reading. I claimed before that Michael Lewis "had a gift;" I still think that's true, but comparing his first book with his later ones demonstrates that he spent a lot of time honing his skills as a writer. It's still a much better book than many others ever write. 0140143459 978-0140143454

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