Despite its arduous length, I hardly felt this book as being anything other than a leisurely stroll. The last 6 days' reading has informed me of many things in the M&A world, and this one does an excellent job of rounding up the knowledge of the past week in a single extremely potable (if somewhat corpulent) tome.
It discusses poison pills, buybacks, stalking horses, run-bys, votes of no confidence, and a plethora of other corporate lingo handily and with examples from real life that hammer the points home. A lot of attention is given to Delaware and their supreme court, highly relevant for many US-based corporates.
Though I don't plan to be a company man by any measure, being armed with the basic awareness of the climate and means of M&As means a world of difference. Other than the massive length, there's nothing wrong with the book at all - the tables and statistics drain on one somewhat, but are easily skippable.
In closing, this week is the best I've had yet and I hope more like it will come.
9/10