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To: Uncle Frank who wrote (363)	12/6/1999 8:29:00 PM
From: AMF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22706

Well, I think Liar's Poker is in a class by itself. Every time Voltaire writes about market manipulation I think of the book - and how it's probably all true...and then some! The New New Thing is a great read - a gossipy "insider" view although Lewis went a bit easy on Clark, in my view. Still, it's not Liar's Poker. You've probably read The Plot To Get Bill Gates which I also thoroughly enjoyed. anna

To: Uncle Frank who wrote (363)	12/6/1999 11:35:00 PM
From: tekboy	Respond to of 22706

No, the new Lewis book is not as good as Liar's Poker (as you might remember me posting on the Godzilla thread. you haven't memorized every word of every tekboy post! shame on you!) After reading it, I went back and reread LP to check that impression, and doing so confirmed the judgment. Still, the new one's pretty good--or rather, there are some excellent scenes amidst a lot of crappy filler about Clark's computer-run yacht. My favorite scene deals with a corporate retreat Silicon Graphics had to deal with its internal tensions. They had a psychologist come and analyze the psychological profiles filled out by the top employees, and the engineers were told they were stubborn, arrogant, difficult, etc. The intent of management was that they be shamed by this into more normal corporate behavior, but the engineers were very pleased...<G> Then--best part, I thought--one of the engineers gets up and demands to take the psychological profile "test" again. "I know what you want now, and I can get the top score this time!" He's begging to get another chance, used to acing everything, and the psychologist is throwing up her hands at the impossibility of such people... LOL! cbb/A