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Boomerang
- The Meltdown Tour
- Narrated by: Dylan Baker
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: History, Europe
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The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Boomerang: The Meltdown Tour, Michael Lewis' brilliant tragi-comic romp across post-crash Europe. Read by the actor Dylan Baker.
Having made the U.S. financial crisis comprehensible for us all in The Big Short, Michael Lewis realised that he hadn't begun to get grips with the full story. How exactly had it come to hit the rest of the world in the face too? Just how broke are we really? Boomerang is a tragi-comic romp across Europe, in which Lewis gives full vent to his storytelling genius. The cheap credit that rolled across the planet between 2002 and 2008 was more than a simple financial phenomenon: it was temptation, offering entire societies the chance to reveal aspects of their characters they could not normally afford to indulge.
Icelanders wanted to stop fishing and become investment bankers. The Greeks wanted to turn their country into a piñata stuffed with cash and allow as many citizens as possible to take a whack. The Irish wanted to stop being Irish. The Germans wanted to be even more German. Michael Lewis's investigation of bubbles across Europe is brilliantly, sadly hilarious. He also turns a merciless eye on America: on California, the epicentre of world consumption, where we see that a final reckoning awaits the most avaricious of nations too. This is the ultimate book of our times. It's time to brace ourselves for impact. And, with Michael Lewis, to laugh out loud while we're doing it.
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- A. Groves
- 08-04-17
Good stories, lazy analysis
Plenty of good stories & interesting characters. But let down by lazy analysis resting on cultural stereotypes which gets a bit tiresome after a while. Reads like a series of articles rather than a coherent narrative.
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- Judy Corstjens
- 27-06-17
Case Histories in Financial Madness
Michael Lewis goes on a post Financial Crisis tour of Iceland, Greece, Germany and California. He meets interesting people who did dubious things between 2002 and 2007, and he gets them all to tell him their amazing stories of stupidity and hubris. Mr Lewis writes entertainingly and with insight, rounding up each episode with his own wry observations that aim to throw light on what really happened in that period, on what happens when different types of people or societies are offered as much money as they want to borrow (essentially). It is all a bit worrying, as with interest rates still as low as ever, I'm pretty sure this whole debt show is still rambling on. Enough to keep the wonderful Mr Lewis usefully employed for the rest of his life.
Narration. Perfect, slightly excitable at times, but fitting to the content, and no silly accents for the foreign people.
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- Ross
- 14-09-17
Not quite up to Lewis' high standards
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I have given this book 4 stars based on reviewing it as a Michael Lewis book. Were it written by another author I would have given it 5 stars based on the content which provides a good amount of depth and context to cover the topic and remain interesting throughout. However, from a Michael Lewis book I expected more. I feel that the book is potentially let down by the vastness of the topic, with Lewis covering the financial crisis as it happened in Iceland, Greece, Ireland, Germany, and back to the USA, with commentary on most of Europe. As a result there is only a certain amount of scandal he is able to fit into the analysis of each of these countries.
I would definitely recommend the book as I learnt a lot from it and enjoyed it throughout, but I would recommend other books by Lewis first (The Big Short, Flash Boys).
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- Mighty Pete - Fire In The Belly
- 10-02-18
Punchy book about the financial crash and more
Really enjoyed this book with it’s tales and the effect around the world and after effects. The author voice is very easy to listen too. Happy to recommend.
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- gerrard
- 12-10-17
fascinating
trip through the minds of the enabling countries embroiled in the crash of 2008. Well spoken and engaging voice.
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- K. Rumph
- 21-03-16
Enthralling and informative
Describing and offering explanations (not always plausible) of the various manifestations of the financial crisis in Iceland, Ireland, Greece, Germany and California Lewis is entertaining and informative: excellent.
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- Victor Gil López
- 23-01-16
Great and scary book
Good book I bought it after watching The big short film. I selfishly wish he had visited a few more countries such as Spain or Portugal. But the book is a great help to understand the different reasons for the crash in the Eurozone which I thought weren't so heterogenic. Highly recommended.
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- Jason
- 14-08-15
Another great roller-coaster from Michael Lewis
If you could sum up Boomerang in three words, what would they be?
Edge Of Seat
What was one of the most memorable moments of Boomerang?
Its all good
Have you listened to any of Dylan Baker’s other performances? How does this one compare?
NA
If you made a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?
The Dumbest Guys In The Room
Any additional comments?
I am learning that anything by Michael Lewis is a laugh-out-loud roller-coaster, that will have you yelling "No-Freaking-Way!!!!" on more than one occasion. Who knew a post-mortem could be so entertaining?
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- Val
- 14-03-17
Compelling
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I'm a fan! Audio works better for me - what is the word for the learning methods that work for each individual. Some take information in by the printed word - some by aural - some by pictures etc. I like to listen.
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- Amazon Customer
- 13-07-16
Interesting book
Another very interesting Michael Lewis book. Still relevant even though a few years ago now and makes you wonder when the whole EU will collapse. Recent vote to leave by UK might just be the catalyst.
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- THOMAS
- 26-03-12
Very good until the final part
There are absolutely several laugh-out-loud moments in this book. The best part is, without doubt, Michael Lewis's (ML) description of Iceland and its travails as the "investment banking nation". When he describes the difficulties of Alcoa, engaged in opening an Aluminium smelting plant in Iceland, first having to certify that the development site is not inhabited by "the hidden people" (aka Elves) -- it is indescribable. But underlying this is ML's usual depth and curiosity. His description of how Iceland developed its fishing industry into a vast money-making enterprise is succinct and thought-provoking.
It is ML's ability to be acerbic, but not nasty that is really at the core of his talent. The Icelanders acted like amazing idiots, seeing themselves as being somehow amazingly talented and capable, when in fact they were more like eleven year-olds given the keys to Daddy's Cadillac. Yet at the end of his tale-telling, one feels both sympathy for the Icelanders, and a slightly rueful sense that maybe we have all been Icelanders a little bit this past decade.
Then you get to the end of the book, and things take a bit of a nose-dive. ML is quite weak when he comes to ascribing causes to what happened in the GFC. His line throughout the book was that the GFC resulted from people being given a great deal of money that they could spend "with nobody looking". That doesn't ring true to me. And in the final section of the book, where ML takes up theories that the behaviour was triggered by our "lizard brain" and so forth ... well, really. I think there are better analyses than that.
The narrator, Dylan Baker, is quite good, managing to strike an even balance between the underlying humour of the writing, and ML's more serious intent -- to make something truly unbelievable more accessible. It remains just a little too mannered for me, but it seems that perhaps the majority of Audible users like this "storytime" style of delivery, rather than a more simple narration. (If you want to hear good, simple narration, listen to Audible's version of Orwell's "Homage to Catalonia", which remains my favourite Audible book.)
(Note: I'm not British, but I live in a Commonwealth country, and I believe in the protection and preservation of the humble "u". It is very 17th C., I realise, but we could use a bit of the 17th C. today.) [Modern readers can imagine the insertion of one of those bizarre "happy faces" at this point.]
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- P.D.TZEREFOS
- 29-08-12
Europeans and Greeks... take note
What made the experience of listening to Boomerang the most enjoyable?
the story and the way put together by the author. They guy has visited the places he writes about it and has talked to the players. the way it is written is funny (although the topic isn't.... at all).
Who was your favorite character and why?
The Dallas hedge fund manager. It saw that the global financial system was rotten and had the balls to bet against it
What about Dylan Baker’s performance did you like?
Good "coloured" narration as opposed to flat text reading. .
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- Stephen
- 23-01-12
Great trip with Lewis, an awakening
What made the experience of listening to Boomerang the most enjoyable?
Easy going journey. Some complex economic situations made simple in the Michael Lewis style.
What was one of the most memorable moments of Boomerang?
Greece and ta avoidance
Which scene was your favorite?
The time spent with greece's political structures and social security web
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
Nothing extreme
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I didn't know what I was getting into when buying boomerang. It was certainly an eye opener and took my knowledge of the current state of he worlds economic situation further. Have topic - enjoyable read
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- JPak
- 11-12-11
Laughing on the other side of our faces?
This book was rivetting - a fascinating, entertaining, horrifying story. Lewis helps us peer into the economic abyss we're falling into with a clever and often very funny blend of travelogue, interesting characters and reporting. The explanations are clear and relatively free of the financial market-speak that obscures the reality - that Wall Street and its Masters of the Universe are nothing more than expensively dressed con-artists, and the rest of us are the greedy, naive easy marks who made it all possible. Lewis looks at a number of nations at the centre of the crisis - Iceland, Greece, Ireland, Germany and the US (California) - and examines how culture contributes to the method of economic suicide chosen by each.
While the book ends on a strangely optimistic note, it just underlined to me how humanity never, ever learns from its mistakes. Highly recommended - but all the way through, I was wondering if I'll be laughing on the other side of my face in 5 years' time in the midst of the next Great Depression.