Talk:Liar's Poker

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Stub conversion[edit]

This is another of my stub-to-article conversions on book-related articles. Hope people come by and make proper changes and additions. --L. 15:20, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Tom Wolfe[edit]

From article: "The Human Piranha — Nickname for an employee at Salomon Brothers who constantly used the word "fuck" and its variants in his speech. Referenced by Tom Wolfe in Bonfire of the Vanities."

Problem is that Wolfe's work prededed this one by some years. So either the claim is wrong and needs deletion, or ambiguous, and needs clarification.

Actually, it is Lewis who referenced Wolfe. I have changed that line. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.231.250.162 (talk) 18:36, 8 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, between the two authors, it is Lewis who can more accurately be said to have written a work of fiction. Much of the behavior described in the book would have resulted in traders being arrested for assault (extra long phone cords so they could hurl the phones at the heads of passerby's on the trading floor? Really??), much less getting fired on the spot. If we can't change the book's classification to "fiction" in the article, what about at least the addition of a criticism section?capitalist (talk) 17:14, 26 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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== 26OCT rated article as start == Article has a very good summary of the content. Also has some decent discussion of the context of the book. Could easily move to C or B status with addition of some external reference. Probably most useful would be book reviews.

Last edited at 11:25, 26 October 2008 (UTC). Substituted at 21:58, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

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What Is this Source?[edit]

The article states:

While in England, Lewis was invited to a banquet hosted by the Queen Mother, where his cousin, Baroness Linda Monroe von Stauffenberg, one of the organizers of the banquet, purposefully seated him next to the wife of the London managing partner of Salomon Brothers. She hoped that his intelligence might impress her enough for her to suggest to her husband that Lewis, be given a job with Salomon Brothers.

None of this information is in the book, except for Lewis' statement that a relative had married a German nobleman. He stated that his seating next to the lady in question was "improbable." I'm not saying this passage is false, but this book is not its source. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 23.118.174.101 (talk) 02:56, 19 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]