Simply awesome. Very well researched and not boring at all!

A novel about the idea of economics. Love it! Read the paper version. You'll love the page numbers.

read it in a week. solely because i wanted to finish it not to say want to get it done. however it explains some interesting views on money and the large picture of the financial world system. the ending sucks.

Highly recommend. Excellent book that is well thought out. The book went in directions that were thought provoking and full of twist and turns.

I really liked the concept and actually enjoyed the complexities that are presented about the financial coherences in the world. However, there is that weak main character and the even weaker ending, which spoiled it for me quite a bit.

I read this book in German, as it is originally written in that language, but I'm writing this in English anyway, since I think more people can read it that way.The book follows John Fontanelli, who never did well financially and now inherits one trillion dollars and a prophecy that he will give mankind back the future it has lost. The book deals with how he struggles to figure out how to do that.What I liked: There were some interesting points made about money and power, and also some pretty de...

Started of very strong. I love the whole idea behind it. Became more and more weak tho. I don't want to spoil anything, so I stop the review at this point. :D

4.75 out of 5 stars.This is the first "big" book I've ever read.

It is a page turner. I read it in three days which means I spend most of those days reading. The writing style is very easy to follow, and it's easy to start caring for the different characters. The topic is intriguing. About half way through, though, it was all a bit too much for me to handle. In the end, I felt it was a nice read yet it won't make it on my list of favorites. Sometimes less is more. That said, there are some beautiful sentences in the book which I'll try and pull out and add as...

I have only ever read one other book by Andreas Eschbach and that was his incredible science fiction epic ‘The Carpet Makers’. That book has a special meaning for me as it came along at a special time in my life. My son had just been born and during his first two weeks in this world I needed something to do between the regular feeding and cleaning. I had purchased The Carpet Makers many moons beforehand and now was the time to read it. While my son slept and my wife and I watched over him, I wou...

Disappointed. I think the author tried to eat more than he could chew, and choked during the last 10% of the book which is basically rubbish. He did a good job presenting the argument backed up with sound analysis and logic, only to find himself trapped and then cheated his way towards the ending. Not worth the time.

I had previously read another Eschbach work, The Carpet Makers, and found it to be good though not stellar. Having finished One Trillion Dollars I now see that The Carpet Makers was good because it played to all of Eschbach's strengths, something that One Trillion Dollars does not. Eschbach is strong at book structure and at individual scenes, while he is weak at characters, writing, and the substance of any "big reveals" he includes in the work. The Carpet Makers was all about structure and ind...

Entertaining / diverting but nothing more.I read this book because it was recommend in a podcast, Das E&U-Gespräch, as a book with an interesting story that also teaches you something about money, the economy and the future of humanity in the fashion of Sophie's World, The Name of the Rose or Moby-Dick or, the Whale.Unfortunately the books only scratches the surface and contains almost no new ideas. With hindsight I could have expected that two podcasters, who have studied art history / cultural...

Very nice novel book about the topics greed and capitalism, endless growth and global social and ecologically problems.

I am very impressed with this book- I have listened to it on audiobook 🎧 This is the story of John Fontanelli, a pizza delivery guy in New York who inherits 1 trillion dollars. 💵 With the money John also has to fulfill a prophecy, written 500 years ago: to save humanity’s future.💵 Then the story shows what happens next. All of John’s decisions, how he interacted with other people, the paparazzi, the scams to try to steal his money. And most of all the doubt of he is indeed capable of fulfilling

How would you save the world if you had 1.000.000.000.000 Dollar?Well, you could dwell on this question for a long, long time and go crazy in the end because you realize you can't completly save it by now or you can take counsel from others, dicover a lot and find out one or two truths for yourself that might change the pace of ecocide and poverty just like that.Of course it isn't all that easy. That is why takes you 881 pages to realize that in the end we know nothing - except that you always h...

Do you wanna have the feeling of "I learned something" added by "excitement" as well as "relaxed reading athmosphere" wrapped into character-development-story? - a trillion dollar is your book.One star minus because of a few too streched sections in the middle of the book. Beginning ist very well-done!

Exciting concept, lots of interesting excursions into economic theory but also pretty bland writing and characters. The book is quite long and becomes a bit tedious towards the mid-point, meandering on and leading to an anti-climatic ending. Ultimately Eschbach explores lots of ideas but is not willing to fully commit to any.

Ever wondered what it would be like to be rich? And I'm not talking about "1 million here, 1 million there"-rich. Think bigger. Think way bigger. Think richer than the 200 richest people combined. Think richer than most states. Think 1.000.000.000.000 Dollars. Yes, go on, you American and British people, go and wonder how the title of this book matches this sum. But well, we weird middle Europeans don't only use metric system , we also count differently. Your "billion" is called "Milliarde" here...