Books
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Halfway through listening to The Trolls of Wall Street by Nathaniel Popper. It chronicles the rise of the sub-reddit r/wallstreetbets from a niche forum on people placing bets on the stock market to its users realising that together they are powerful enough to move the markets. It's well written (and the audiobook is well narrated) and I'm enjoying - so far - hearing about how a group of self-described degenerates coalesced and started to screw with the system.
I used to find finance bewildering but books like this which put everything in layman's terms and include the personal stories of the characters involved make it make so much more sense.
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@EdH did you ever see the movie Dumb Money about this?
I was caught up in the whole movement myself, and it perfectly captured the hysteria and generally memery around it all
Lost £500, but it was so worth to be part of history!
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@T4920 No, haven't seen that one. I did watch the Gamestop short squeeze as a curious onlooker, and have seen a couple of documentaries about it since. Basically kicked off my interest in learning more about this whole side to the way things work, so when I saw this book come out a couple of weeks ago it was a no brainer.
Haven't gotten to the part in the book about Gamestop just yet. Where I'm up to the pandemic is just getting started and WSB is going mental because Robin Hood was down for a few days while the markets rallied after central banks said they'd be supporting the economy.
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@Nik already on my Audible wish list.
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The author Gary Stevenson is an interesting guy, a new breed of basically socialist influencer. In a more journalistic side of the same kind of person I'm reading Grace Blakeley's book 'Vulture Capitalism'.
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This was a store clerks recommendation. Honestly I have no idea what I’m reading. It’s essentially a dark,twisted fairy tale, but the author is one of those “let me just use a thesaurus as part of the material” types.
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@Nik Really enjoyed The Trading Game, finished listening to it last night. It really helped that the audiobook is read by Gary himself, it's the sort of tale that benefits from the autobiographical voice. He also does a good job with mimicking the accents of the other characters, which helped aid understanding when he's recalling conversations he had with others.
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Glad you liked it @EdH cool to hear the audio was good. Stevenson definitely has a great voice.
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@popvulture I haven’t read this…will check it out.
Put a hold on it for my Kindle…I’m 31st in line! Sheesh
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@iammortalcombat oopff.. I don't think I could slog through it, those type of authors are off putting to me.
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@Inorganic I finished it quickly…not because it was amazing, but rather I just wanted to get it over with. I hate not completing books. 3/10 do not recommend it.
I started this last week as my first audiobook. I needed something to be background noise while I’m painting my plastic army men and this feeds the lore behind my army.
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After ‘OK Computer’ the next release of Radiohead was ‘Kid A’ in 2000.
Perhaps one of the most curious metamorphosis of a band seen.
Took me years to connect with Kid A.More 33third books here.
Music from Radiohead-Kid A to The Smile-Live in Montreux in the Music thread!.
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Light Holiday reading, in part inspired by @steelworker -
Following on from this discussion, @EdH and @endo might enjoy the novel “Q”, set in the time of the German Peasants’ War and the Münster Rebellion. It’s been a while since I read it but it left an impression!
“Every day that you survive you get a free sunset“
