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Dave Hart #2
Trust Me, I'm a Banker
Dave Hart is back. His wife has left him. He's tried to kill his boss. He's probably going to lose his job. His annual bonus was embarrassingly small. Could life get any worse for Dave Hart, anti-hero of the investment banking world? Following an unlikely turn of events on a Jamaican beach, Dave finds himself catapulted from zero to hero through the magic of the tabloid press. He's soon strutting into ailing German bank Grossbank, determined to shake up its fusty 'old school' banking and start taking some proper risks. And some drugs. And of course plenty of entertainment at the Pussy Cat Club. After all, we all need to wind down and investment bankers are more wound up than most. Trust Me, I'm a Banker is a brutal, sometimes cynical, but always hilarious take on the world of high finance which will delight fans and new readers alike.
- GenresFiction
176 pages, Paperback
First published February 15, 2007
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July 12, 2012
"Wall Street" meets in "American Psycho" in this clever American debut! "Trust Me, I'm a Banker" is horrifying and hilarious at the same time, and the ending is the cherry on top - I want more!
August 6, 2017
This book describes itself as satire, yet many of the puns or references were lost on me. In fact they often times came off as just offensive in my opinion. To me this book was generally unlikeable, I wanted to stop reading it 100 pages in. I pressed on and essentially skimmed the last 100 pages as I was so disinterested and so done with reading this book. Would never recommend this to a friend, but that's just me. Other people do seemed to have enjoyed it.
December 1, 2022
Hmmm I think this is good for a niche of ppl like a finance bro I guess? Idk the author did a great job trying to portray what he wanted like the whole finance bro life but it just wasn't the type of content I prefer to read. Not bad though but I wish I'd used that time to read a diff book since it just wasn't really my type of book. The author has a really good writing style though so if this is your preferred type of content then it's really good and I'd recommend just wasn't my preference
June 17, 2024
2.5. It was a quick read when I needed a quick read, so that was nice. I wish there was more satire. It was just a horrible, greedy man, not even trying for redemption being horrible and greedy for 300 pages.
July 8, 2012
"Trust Me, I'm a Banker," a novel by David Charters, to be published July 17, ISBN 978-0-312-60437, St. Martin's Press.
What draws me first to a book is the cover, then the title and then the summary written on the back cover or inside flap. What keeps me is the first 5 pages - which should be like a pot of my mom's vegetable soup. You know, she would mix everything in there, even the rutabagas - which I can't stand, but all the other stuff and the seasoning would hide the rutabaga.
Though Charters' efforts at writing a tale about a lifestyle that he knows from the inside out, and I do believe in the cliche that you should write about what you know, I found the 'rutabaga' on page 3.
And then it seemed that all I could taste was the 'rutabagas' all the way through the end of the book that has been proclaimed to be 'a flawless social satire' and has been compared to American Psycho.
Never read American Psycho. And if Trust Me, I'm a Banker is written in that tradition, well, then, I am glad.
Now, mind you, I will give Charters this - had he done a little less description and jumping from subject to subject and put in less details about the less important parts of the book, i.e. the hookers his character is with, their names and the drugs - which are nothing more than pieces to the puzzle that don't fit but look pretty, I might have given it a better rating. Maybe.
I do thank the staff at St. Martin's for sending me books to review - they don't have to - but they do and each one, even the ones where I can taste the 'rutabaga', are treasured. Some may never come back off the shelf, but they are there.
For just as someone might like rutabagas, someone might like this tale.
But for me, don't trust the banker.
What draws me first to a book is the cover, then the title and then the summary written on the back cover or inside flap. What keeps me is the first 5 pages - which should be like a pot of my mom's vegetable soup. You know, she would mix everything in there, even the rutabagas - which I can't stand, but all the other stuff and the seasoning would hide the rutabaga.
Though Charters' efforts at writing a tale about a lifestyle that he knows from the inside out, and I do believe in the cliche that you should write about what you know, I found the 'rutabaga' on page 3.
And then it seemed that all I could taste was the 'rutabagas' all the way through the end of the book that has been proclaimed to be 'a flawless social satire' and has been compared to American Psycho.
Never read American Psycho. And if Trust Me, I'm a Banker is written in that tradition, well, then, I am glad.
Now, mind you, I will give Charters this - had he done a little less description and jumping from subject to subject and put in less details about the less important parts of the book, i.e. the hookers his character is with, their names and the drugs - which are nothing more than pieces to the puzzle that don't fit but look pretty, I might have given it a better rating. Maybe.
I do thank the staff at St. Martin's for sending me books to review - they don't have to - but they do and each one, even the ones where I can taste the 'rutabaga', are treasured. Some may never come back off the shelf, but they are there.
For just as someone might like rutabagas, someone might like this tale.
But for me, don't trust the banker.
August 23, 2012
I found this book on the new books shelf in the library and thought it looked interesting. It turned out to be a satirical look at world of investment bankers, from an English perspective. Although the story is an exaggeration to make it humorous, one can't help but wonder how far it is from the truth, especially the first half, which talks about bonus time.
August 2, 2011
Reminded my of Harold Robbins novels except that its written by a banker about investment banking.
November 30, 2012
A very depressing but somewhat enlightening book about greed.
February 7, 2014
Presumably the fantasy of a middle aged man who has spent his career as a city middle ranker. Sad
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