My father worked at one of the Hedge Funds referenced in <i>The Big Short</i> for about 15 years, and was there during the collapse. I&#x27;ve talked to him ad nauseam about these books and the only one he didn&#x27;t like was <i>Flash Boys</i>, but calls <i>The Big Short</i> &quot;sort of scary&quot; in how accurate it was.<p>In reference to <i>Flash Boys</i> he said that the technical aspects of how HFT works were so poorly illustrated that he couldn&#x27;t really take the book serious and felt that it would limit his ability to further consider future Michael Lewis books. Wish I understood more of that, but his point was, I think, that it&#x27;s not as nefarious as it&#x27;s often made out to be.