Best Book to Read While on a long Flight?

Hey guys,

Not the most important inquiry in the world, but I am about to take a flight to Dublin, Ireland this weekend to go study abroad for the semester and I was looking to find a nice book related to investment banking to read on the trip there. I took a look at the "Monkey's Review" list of books that Flesh does, but I dont know which one would be good.

Anyone have any good must read investment banking books that I should be considering?? Your thought will be much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

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Personally I would just watch all the movies and tv shows they have on the plane, but if you want to read I would suggest Monkey's Business or When Genius Failed. Both are pretty short and have a writing style that won't put you to sleep in 5 minutes.

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Gekko21Personally I would just watch all the movies and tv shows they have on the plane, but if you want to read I would suggest Monkey's Business or When Genius Failed. Both are pretty short and have a writing style that won't put you to sleep in 5 minutes.

Agreed, you can't go wrong with either of those.

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Read "Ugly Americans" about a kid from Princeton who went to japan as a trader. Honestly one of the most interesting books I've read in a while. I'm obsessed with the book now, you definitely won't put it down and your going to want to travel to japan. No real useful stuff about IB but you won't be disappointed.

 

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the big short or lords of finance. currently reading the latter and is pretty good. liar's poker i read as well and didn't find it quite as good as the big short. I couldn't even get through barbarians at the gate, became boring to me, however I will probably finish it at some point. freakonomics is a decent read too, but not as finance related.

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