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Repeat Until Rich: A Professional Card Counter's Chronicle Of The Blackjack Wars (2010)

by Josh Axelrad(Favorite Author)

3.44 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1594202478 (ISBN13: 9781594202476)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Penguin Press HC, The

review 1: This is not the sort of book I would normally pick up, seeing as how I don't care about gambling, seldom get into memoirs, and don't like fast-paced, anxiety-inducing realistic stories. But Josh Axelrad happens to be a sort of friend of mine, and I saw him occasionally in New York during the time of his life that he describes in this book. I bought it when it came out, but it took me this long to get around to reading it. He's a great story-teller, and a I think that (in general and in this book) he's especially talented at letting the reader in to his own self-awareness. I can't believe that people want him to have written this story without the spiraling addiction at the end. Really?
review 2: Ah-ha! That's what all those card-counters are up to! Dissipation ... morein Vegas, of course, but also a lot of roaming the country facing down the true bleakness of casinos and 'gaming' culture. This would've been an OK book as it was originally planned, but then in the process of writing it, Axelrad fritters away his book advance on online poker, which adds a whole other dimension to the story. Bad for Axelrad, but great for the book. And the last chapter, about meditation, was just as fascinating, if not more so, than all the tales of derring-do in the casinos.(As you can probably discern from my links, Josh Axelrad is a friend of mine, so I'm of course biased. I was delighted to finally learn what he'd been doing all those years, in detail. But I was also delighted to read a book by a friend and have it be really good. Because you know it's awkward when someone you know writes something and it's not good...) less

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