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Cityboy: Beer and Loathing in the Square Mile | 
 enlarge | Author: Geraint Anderson
Publisher: Headline
Category: Book
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Rating:  28 reviews
Sales Rank: 1100
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.1 x 1.3
ISBN: 0755346165
EAN: 9780755346165
ASIN: 0755346165
Publication Date: June 26, 2008
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 DEJA VU - AN EXCELLENT READ - INTERESTING, FUNNY AND TRUE!!! November 10, 2008
Tia Keens (London)
I began working in the City in 1987 and having spent long periods on the buy-side and sell-side, I found Geraint's work an extremely accurate reflection of working life, in particular the brittle financial machinery, hideous & hilarious manipulation on both sides, psychological conflicts and social shenanigans. It was interesting, funny and very well-written as it is the TRUE inner voice of a young City broker and was well-structured and well-characterised. In fact, I found Geraint's portrayal of the main character's painful conflict between his social conscience and darker side extremely convincing.
To those who haven't worked in the City, you would find City Boy entertaining, insightful and educational, particularly in the light of recent events in the financial markets. It's a rattling good read and gets even better as it goes along - great for both the beach and tube.
If I were to compare it to another publication, I would regard City Boy as a less malevolently-styled, 21st century thinking man's American Psycho. It certainly deserves the same success - 5 star!
Tia
 Geraint Anderson is THE Evan Davis lookalike (dragons den) October 25, 2008
Phil Farr (Wales)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Don't be tempted to put money in this parasites pocket,he got out when he knew there was no more blood in the stone.
 Very similar to Golden Handcuffs by Polly Courtney. October 6, 2008
Daniel Storey (Rochester, England)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I brought this book because I remember reading a similar book written by Polly Courtney (Golden Handcuffs) and thought this book would give me another similar insight into life in the city.
Both books are very similar by the fact that they are both based on the author's experiences in working in big city banks.
Geraint like Polly found the working into the city not a fun place to be and both had since left the city and gone on to become authors.
In this book Geraint explains how he got lucky and went from a hippy traveller to a man earning more money in a year than most of us will ever earn.
Personally I don't think this book gives any new insight about what is happening in the city and how much city boys are earning because I think most people are aware of that nowadays but it does make you wonder what sort of place London is becoming in the 21st century.
Still this book is a very fun read and my only criticism of it is it's a shame the author had to write the story based on his experiences rather than the actual truth.
CITY BOYZ September 29, 2008
Arsenil (London)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book has confirmed what I thought of those people in the city. Not particularly intelligent, lucky to earn silly money for doing what a Sunday market trader could do!!!
I enjoyed the funny side. Easy to read.
City Babylon? September 27, 2008
Zarla (UK)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
A lot of this reminded me of Imogen Edward-Jones' Babylon books, except this time 'anonymous' has (kind of) declared his identity. Like the Babylon books, cocaine is one of the main characters (almost as if no other drug exists); prostitutes appear regularly & large sums of money are thrown at the undeserving. Nothing unexpected - the stuff about gargantuan bonuses and insider trading was hardly a revelation. There were two phrases I really liked, though. For sheer cleverness, originality and sort-of-lyricism, these surpass anything in the Babylon books. Steve's dad tells him 'to keep his nose clean'- hilarious double entendre. The other quotation was 'I am no longer convinced that the light at the end of the tunnel is, in fact, a fast-approaching train.' I think he should have finished the book with this, instead of with the grimly cliched stuff about love making the world go round.
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