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The Trick
- Narrated by: Rich Keeble
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
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Summary
Bloomsbury presents The Trick by William Leith, read by Rich Keeble.
Some people can make money. Other people can’t. It’s a thought that makes William Leith wake up in a cold sweat.
He doesn’t know why it makes him feel anxious. After all, money isn’t real. We created it. Humans did. It’s our masterpiece.
But the desire for it is killing us.
It is this dilemma that sets William Leith off on an adventure into the bizarre, morally dubious, yet highly desirable world of the mega-rich.
He spends several days with the real-life Wolf of Wall Street who, not content with his hundreds of millions, devised a fraud so he could make hundreds of millions more. He visits a Baroque mansion where a Russian half-billionaire lives alone with his butler. He tours the estate of Felix Dennis, the maverick tycoon who commissioned an avenue of statues to tell the story of his life. He flies to private islands on private jets, meets private men in private clubs, experiencing the dizzy highs of a life without limits – but all it does is give him crippling anxiety.
Throughout it all he asks himself: what makes these people wealthy? And how come I’m not?
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- david buckley
- 22-04-20
Excellent; insightful and thought provoking
The authors mind is a web of stories, thoughts and insights and here he weaves them together to great effect. Well read too.
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- Nicholas
- 21-04-20
Great book, very interesting discussion.
The clear thinking section really pulls this together. An insight into how people think about money when they have it.
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- Doug Cleghorn
- 09-05-20
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This is the most boring audio book I have ever listened to. It is pretty much the author regurgitating other peoples books you may as well read those. Don’t waste your time have ended up stopping 3/4s of the way through would have stopped earlier but was holding on to the hope it would have got better.
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- Mr. S. Mason
- 28-04-20
Just a load of monotone rambling
I found this audio book difficult to listen to; I tried several times from the beginning and couldn't get into it. For me, the author seemed to 'ramble' a lot - I don't know if this is intentional, but it takes up most of the content rather than the point of the book / the story itself. I really wanted to learn and understand exactly what this book said it did, but I sadly found it extremely difficult to get into and couldn't get past 90 mins - and I tried a few times too! I hope this review doesn't upset the author or narrator, but it is clearly not my style.
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