Academic or maverick
Mokwit,
Fabozzi is familiar to me through his work on fixed income - excellent books but hardly bed-time reading. However, academics do have a degree of credibility and (hopefully) a reasonble basis for their works.
And it is academics who have contributed most to the advancement of financial theory and practise. The majority of the highest regarded practitioners in the US also hold academic posts.
An excellent book both entertaining and witty is, Principles & Corporate FInance by Brealy & Myers. Despite its accountantant appealing title it is probably one the most lucid treatments of financial markets - fixed income, derivatives, foreign exchange.
Many works may be perceived as dull but are actually interesting - and if it's interesting, it's entertaining, I suppose.
If you're interested in options, look at the attached pdf file (four pages) - "How I Helped To Make Fischer Black Wealthier". I find this quite funny/entertaining and informative.
In the final analysis, Mokwit, "Dull(ness)" is preferable to ******** written by a maverick (******** written by an academic - that's another question).