The Buy Side: A Wall Street Trader's Tale of Spectacular Excess

By coincidence, I flipped through few pages of this book in bookstore. It caught my attention immediately and I think this could be one of those books that deserved my time to read it on.

End up... yes, it is! This book is in fact more like a novel stuff. As such, readers would not feel boring as the bright side as well as dirty side of Wall Street was fully reveal in this book. Not only that... In fact, readers will be fascinated by the excitement, entertainment, profanity, drug use and explicit sexual contents. Call it a crazy world? I guess it is the intention from the author...

The only flaw is the author did not reveal as much as I expected on the maneuvering and manipulation of Wall Street trading. In fact, the author focus more on his personal story (which qualified itself as an awesome memoir) and the so called "buy side" is just a small part of the book.

Overall, this is an excellent book to me. The moment I started it, I just cannot put it down. There is one excerpt from the book, which I think the best quote to conclude this book: "Real success on Wall Street is measured not in bonus or salary but in photographs on desks of children wearing soccer uniforms and caps and gowns. Success on Wall Street is measured the same way it's measured by a factory worker, a math teacher, or an engineer with four children in Maine." For a full rating of 10, I am going to rate this book at 9. I enjoy reading this book. It serves as a good reminder on the dirty side of any capitalism market.