{"product_id":"going-infinite-9780241651117","title":"Going Infinite","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e*INSTANT\u003ci\u003e SUNDAY TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eBESTSELLER*\u003cbr\u003e*NO. 1 \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER*\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eExtraordinary' \u003ci\u003eThe Observer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA stupefyingly pleasurable book to read' \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLewis's storytelling is as good as ever' \u003ci\u003eThe Economist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the #1 bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Big Short\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFlash Boys\u003c\/i\u003e, the high-octane story of the enigmatic figure at the heart of one of the 21st century''s most spectacular financial collapses\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e''I asked him how much it would take for him to sell FTX and go do something other than make money. He thought the question over. One hundred and fifty billion dollars, he finally said-though he added that he had use for infinity dollars...''\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSam Bankman-Fried wasn''t just rich. Before he turned thirty he''d become the world''s youngest billionaire, making a record fortune in the crypto frenzy. CEOs, celebrities and world leaders vied for his time. At one point he conside\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGoing Infinite\u003c\/i\u003e is insanely readable and I devoured it\u003c\/b\u003e, marvelling at Lewis’s ability to pace, structure and humanise a story about something as dense and unfriendly as crypto… As with previous outings such as \u003ci\u003eMoneyball\u003c\/i\u003e (nerdy baseball stats), \u003ci\u003eThe Big Short\u003c\/i\u003e (credit default swaps), and \u003ci\u003eFlash Boy\u003c\/i\u003es (high-frequency trading), \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGoing Infinite \u003c\/i\u003eshows off Lewis’s peculiar genius for making arcane information as transporting as fantasy fiction.\u003c\/b\u003e * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGoing Infinite\u003c\/i\u003e is \u003cb\u003ea stupefyingly pleasurable book to read. It’s perfectly paced, extremely funny, and fills in many gaps in a story that has been subjected to an unholy amount of reporting\u003c\/b\u003e... What he began with \u003ci\u003eMoneyball\u003c\/i\u003e has come into full flower with \u003ci\u003eGoing Infinite\u003c\/i\u003e. Lewis has surveyed a landscape taken by convention as settled and found it destabilized, at least here and there, by uneven and unreliable information. Perhaps Lewis’s book should encourage an update, however minuscule, in our own priors. * New Yorker *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGoing Infinite \u003c\/i\u003eis a portrait of grandiose ambitions, youthful arrogance, and the distorting power of money... \u003cb\u003e[Lewis] remains the greatest living exponent of the plain style in reporting. His eye for detail is unsurpassed\u003c\/b\u003e... And as a chronicle of collective delusion - a modern version of the Dutch tulip mania - \u003ci\u003eGoing Infinite\u003c\/i\u003e is \u003cb\u003ean instant classic\u003c\/b\u003e... Michael Lewis deserves huge credit for capturing [SBF] in all his infinite weirdness... Mark Zuckerberg, another boy genius in ratty shoes, once described Twitter as a clown car that fell into a gold mine. Sam Bankman-Fried was a Seth Rogen character who fell into a tulip field circa 1634. Another one will be along in a minute. We never learn. * The Atlantic *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGoing Infinite\u003c\/i\u003e is in many ways Lewis at his best.\u003c\/b\u003e He marshals a complex global story without losing sight of the delightful and revealing human details. He is a world-class noticer … \u003cb\u003eLewis is a generous writer with a humane intelligence\u003c\/b\u003e, and it is to his credit that he doesn’t reach for easy cynicism or cheap effects. -- Jesse Armstrong * TLS *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLewis’ storytelling is as good as ever\u003c\/b\u003e… In the past, Mr Lewis has focused on little-known people doing extraordinary things. This time his subject is notorious… Mr Bankman-Fried’s hyper-rationality sets him apart from everyone. He views people not as good or bad, but as “probability distributions” around a mean… By tolerating the idea that hyper-rationalists cannot make sense of the rules of the game the way most people do, Mr Lewis implicitly asks readers to reconsider whatever they thought they knew about Mr Bankman-Fried. \u003cb\u003eIn the court of public opinion, he is already convicted. That’s reason enough to give this book a read.\u003c\/b\u003e * The Economist *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGoing Infinite\u003c\/i\u003e is \u003cb\u003ewildly entertaining, surprising multiple times on pretty much every page, \u003c\/b\u003ebut it adds up to a sad story, even a tragedy, for its central character and for all the people who lost so much thanks to his actions… Lewis tries to answer the first question he was asked about Bankman-Fried: who was this guy? The question of his guilt or innocence Lewis leaves to the criminal justice system. I think that’s good practice, given that the trial is happening right now. For what it’s worth, I see no contradiction between the person described in \u003ci\u003eGoing Infinite\u003c\/i\u003e and the things SBF is accused of having done. In fact I think \u003cb\u003ethe book makes it easier to understand how and why he did what he allegedly did.\u003c\/b\u003e -- John Lanchester * London Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Lewis has an uncanny instinct for a big story, and is now right in the thick of the action again\u003c\/b\u003e... Reading Lewis can feel like being a passenger in an expertly piloted bobsleigh. You’re moving so fast down the mountain, but you know you’re going to be delivered safe and sound – hot chocolate waiting at the bottom. There is no need to stress, only to thrill to the scenery as it hurtles past. * New Statesman *\u003cbr\u003eIn November 2022, FTX collapsed in a matter of days after it suffered billions of dollars in customer withdrawals, sending shockwaves through the crypto world. \u003cb\u003eTo make sense of all this, with perfect timing, comes Michael Lewis… \u003ci\u003eGoing Infinite\u003c\/i\u003e is his superbly detailed picture of the man behind it\u003c\/b\u003e... So where might the money have gone? We still don’t entirely know, though Lewis offers some preliminary balance sheet calculations — which remain more detailed than anything FTX ever published. * Evening Standard *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Lewis is the world’s finest financial storyteller\u003c\/b\u003e… \u003ci\u003eGoing Infinite\u003c\/i\u003e is at its best in describing Bankman-Fried’s rise… Lewis is equally sharp on how the effective altruism movement shifted its priorities, from donating to prevent disease and mortality in the global south to worrying about (putative) trillions of human lives across the galaxy in the distant future. * Daily Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003eWhen the stories of our times are told, there will be no more seminal documents than the books of Michael Lewis. * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003eI would read an 800-page history of the stapler if he wrote it. * New York Times Book Review *\u003cbr\u003eIn the hands of Michael Lewis, anything is possible. * Sunday Times *\u003cbr\u003eHe is so good everyone else may as well pack up. * Evening Standard *\u003cbr\u003eLife is what happens between Michael Lewis books. -- Michael Hofmann\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48864282280279,"sku":"9780241651117","price":22.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780241651117.jpg?v=1722271225","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/going-infinite-9780241651117","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}