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Books : Cityboy: Beer and Loathing in the Square Mileby: Geraint Anderson Related Items:
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![]() Rating: - DEJA VU - AN EXCELLENT READ - INTERESTING, FUNNY AND TRUE!!!I began working in the City in 1987 and having spent long periods on the buy-side and sell-side, I found Geraint's work an extremely accurate reflection of working life, in particular the brittle financial machinery, hideous & hilarious manipulation on both sides, psychological conflicts and social shenanigans. It was interesting, funny and very well-written as it is the TRUE inner voice of a young City broker and was well-structured and well-characterised. In fact, I found Geraint's portrayal ... Read More Rating: - Geraint Anderson is THE Evan Davis lookalike (dragons den)Don't be tempted to put money in this parasites pocket,he got out when he knew there was no more blood in the stone. Rating: - Very similar to Golden Handcuffs by Polly Courtney. I brought this book because I remember reading a similar book written by Polly Courtney (Golden Handcuffs) and thought this book would give me another similar insight into life in the city. Both books are very similar by the fact that they are both based on the author's experiences in working in big city banks. Geraint like Polly found the working into the city not a fun place to be and both had since left the city and gone on to become authors. In this book Geraint explains how ... Read More Rating: - CITY BOYZThis book has confirmed what I thought of those people in the city. Not particularly intelligent, lucky to earn silly money for doing what a Sunday market trader could do!!! I enjoyed the funny side. Easy to read. Rating: - City Babylon?A lot of this reminded me of Imogen Edward-Jones' Babylon books, except this time 'anonymous' has (kind of) declared his identity. Like the Babylon books, cocaine is one of the main characters (almost as if no other drug exists); prostitutes appear regularly & large sums of money are thrown at the undeserving. Nothing unexpected - the stuff about gargantuan bonuses and insider trading was hardly a revelation. There were two phrases I really liked, though. For sheer cleverness, originality and sort ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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