There are some interesting things in this book, but I really don't like how it's written. Taleb seems like one of those people who thinks he's always right about everything, and condescending toward anyone who disagrees with him. I don't enjoy talking with those people, and I don't enjoy reading books written in the same manner. Also, based on the subtitle, it would seem like the discussion of markets would be secondary to randomness in all walks of life. However, the majority of the book talks just about markets and traders, and it's not until the second half that it gets into the more interesting theoretical stuff about life in general.

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A few good ideas, but mostly a work of self-aggrandizement and repetition. Would've been just as good in half as many pages, and I wouldn't have to read his bloviating drivel.

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A great book for explaining the success (by fortune) of so many great folks that subsequently fail by sudden misfortune. Sound statistical background, but not a text. A lot of fun reading from a speculator on stocks, himself.

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