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|  | Author: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Publisher: Random House
Category: Book
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Rating:  511 reviews
Sales Rank: 623
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Pages: 366
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 9.4 x 6.5 x 1.4
ISBN: 1400063515
Dewey Decimal Number: 003.54
EAN: 9781400063512
ASIN: 1400063515
Publication Date: April 17, 2007
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 Beware of the unknown January 13, 2010
M. Al-dhaen (Bahrain)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I don't want to say it's too late to read this book, but its always good to understand the causes of poor investment.
 Resonance January 9, 2010
I. M. Idle
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I loved this book! Perhaps because it resonated with some core beliefs within me that I have never been able to articulate (well, not as clearly as Taleb does). I like the new way I am now looking at uncertainty, and risk, and predictions, and experts, and the 80/20 "rule." I can't believe I waited so long to read it. Bring on the black swans!
 Nice topics, argumentations not always convincing January 7, 2010
S. Cesare (Milan Italy)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
A nice and practical book explaining the reason why under certain hypothesis the Gaussian assumption is completely wrong...and you lose a lot of money in NYSE market!
Very interesting topic, but poor writing January 3, 2010
Tom (Prague, Czech Republic)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
While the topic and its implications are important and interesting, sometimes I had a feeling that the author is overdoing it with adding "sauce" to the main facts and arguments in order to increase the length of the book. About 1/3 of volume would still have all important content, yet would be much more reader friendly. Do not take me wrong, I have no problem with long books, but for the genre of this book, more to the point writing is IMHO appropriate. My ranking is an average of 5 stars for topic and arguments and 2 stars for writing. Also, it may be a part of my cultural background, but the author was self promoting himself a bit too much.
 The author speaks very highly of himself. December 21, 2009
The Voice of Reason (Baltimore, MD United States)
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
The main lesson I learned from the Black Swan is that the author thinks very highly of himself. While criticizing narrative as a preferred way of communicating information due to its bias and lack of accountability for what it doesn't include, the book is one long narrative from a self-absorbed view of the author. We get to learn of his favorite French literature (by the way, the English translation is bad), his aristocratic upbringing (he read a lot, because the summer cottage was *so* boring), and that he was a stock market genius before he got tired of that. Learning through self-narrative shouldn't be imposed upon us by people we can't begin to identify with. The book is choppy, often with one paragraph having little or nothing to do with what came before or afterward, as if inserted because it had to go somewhere. The author uses enough parentheses for ten books. Attempts at humor fail. The book's message is, in my opinion, somewhat trivial. Basically, quite a mediocre work.
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