It's always a pleasure to read one of Michael Lewis' books and this is no exception. For some reason I found it harder to follow than others I'd read of his. I'd already seen the film before which I think really helped understanding the idea of a CDO and synthetic CDO before going into this. It's well explained in the book as well but having both explanations made it a lot easier to handle. I found it harder to get a full grip on the people in this story though when compared to those in Liars poker. I'm not sure if it was my state of mind when reading or if he did a better job at painting people in Liars poker but I found them harder to get a handle on. 

The story / explanation of what happened in 2008 is amazing told here and it's hard not to go away from it feeling pretty angry with the whole system, that being said I read a lot of this on my lunch break at the bank I work for....