The (mis)behaviour of markets

This book examines what ways there are to project financial risk (in the form of asset-price changes) that reflects reality better than the so-called normal distribution (used in Black-Scholes, VAR, and many other models). The book follows a few parallel tracks: -Mandelbrot's personal story -The history of math and probabilities as it relates to projecting price movements -The development of Mandelbrot's own mathematical models -Bashing of everything and everyone The first 3 tracks I all appreciated but that last one got quite annoying, especially since it permeates through almost every paragraph.