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''My friends made fun of me,'' complains one gentleman, who ended up bowing to peer pressure and returning the $50,000 car he'd just bought his girlfriend, exchanging it instead for one worth more than double that.
I thought this book was brilliant. It has such an easy, accessible tone that you can read it as if it's a trashy magazine rather than a formal business style book, but the references at the back clearly show that there's substance to the facts to match that latter genre rather than the trashy mag. Reading the first few pages I was instantly reminded of the Imogen Edwards-Jones exposé series '' ... Babylon'' especially [[''Hotel Babylon]] '' which provides similar insight into the gaping divide between them and us, the rich and those who service them.
There were some truly fascinating revelations in the book that show this other world in a way you would never imagine, and though the positives and negatives are balanced (after the section on a guy who made it big, there's another on someone who lost it all) I can't help feeling a little inspired right now, as if I've suddenly been made aware of a new life out there that is more than a little appealing to me.
