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authors: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
isbn: 978-0812973815
pages: "366"
rating: ★ ★ ★
date_started: 2016-03-06
date_finished: 2016-09-06
locations: San Francisco
date: 2016-09-06
---

# The Black Swan

Nassim Taleb seems like a very smart person but:

* book was extremely long, especially to present one main idea
* the style is quite arrogant, which I didn't enjoy at all

I liked that he quoted a lot of people in his book, but because of 2 reasons stated above I'm not looking forward to read his other books.  It was a very painful experience and took me half a year to finish it.