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The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky, And Death (2014)

by Colson Whitehead(Favorite Author)

3.36 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0385537050 (ISBN13: 9780385537056)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Doubleday

review 1: Colson Whitehead should stick to writing novels. The Noble Hustle is more of an exercise in self indulgence than a book about poker. Rambling about his inner demons and hapless attempts at humor that fall flat almost had me give up on this book. But, it's a short book at a little over 200 pages so I decided to see it through to the end. There was a slight improvement in the final third of the book when he actually arrives in Las Vegas for the World Series of Poker, but I was expecting a little more excitement. After all, it's LAS VEGAS dammit! Not recommended for anyone who wants to read about poker.
review 2: There's very little about poker until the second half of the book, and even then it's not all that interesting. The book was filled with a copious number... more of one-liners, delivered nearly in every other sentence, which became really grating after the first 30 pages or so. I got the impression that the author was more in love with his witty prose than actually telling the story about his experience at the WSOP main event. less

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