RaveBook OxygenMichael Lewis explains [his] characters, interests and backgrounds, the papers they write and the work that they do in the easiest of prose, bringing exactly the right personal details to make the stories sing. He is funny, angry, and acute. As a reviewer, I find myself wanting to quote practically every other sentence in the book ... We need to listen to those mavericks and oddballs who are too modest and interested in their arcane subjects to thrust themselves on to public stages ... Sprinkled through this fascinating study of brilliance and its frustration are snippets that should be read—and heard—by anyone in any kind of management anywhere: the fact that in most companies ten per cent of the people ... Readers will swing from astonished admiration to sickening rage again and again, but Charity Dean’s church’s attempt to impose ignorance and failure on such a star, who has so much to offer, summed up for me everything that is wrong with the world. Thank goodness that it also has Michael Lewis in it and the whole cast of extraordinary characters to which he introduces us in his latest masterpiece.
