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Title: Surprsingly good
Review: In the interest of full disclosure, I will state that I opened this book expecting to be disappointed. I have read SatireWire for some time, and it's great, but I thought the premise of this book -- this faux history of the new economy -- was asking for trouble. I was only slightly right. A few of the stories didn't work for me. They would have been very funny if I read them closer to when some of the events happened, but time and distance tempers the joke for me. However, with the vast majority of the several hundred stories here, the author has managed to transcend time and place. This is just very, very funny writing, and some of these "business" stories, such as about employee slapping, the Fed "policy rave," or selling off your most loyal employees, will be funny 50 years from now.That said, I'd still like to see what the author could do with a more timeless subject.
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