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Hats And Eyeglasses (2008)

by Martha Frankel(Favorite Author)

3.55 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1429599073 (ISBN13: 9781429599078)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

review 1: Martha Frankel grew up in a home where the moms played Mahjongg in the kitchen and the dads played poker at the dining room table. Her dad took her to the track. Mom was a bookkeeper, but Frankel got confused and pegged her a bookie. Gambling was part of weave and fabric of her family. A professional writer, she started researching a screenplay by learning to play a social game of poker. Poker cruises, casinos and card rooms followed. And she was good! Until she discovered an early version of online gaming, and a sour and frightening addiction.The book is filled with good humor, including several opportunities to laugh with glee and nod in recognition. Hey! Her family is like my family is like your family. But they have a gambling way. It's a quick read that offers light i... morensight and a satisfying conclusion.
review 2: Picked the book up Saturday morning and put it down Saturday afternoon -- a very quick read. The author talks about how gambling was a constant in her life, from childhood on. She obessed with poker and still plays a weekly game. But she does not think that obession was/is addiction. Rather her gambling addiction was to online poker. She was a habitual winner at the poker table where she could see the other players but when online, in the early years of online poker, she lost big time and kept trying to make it back. For about two years she could not stop, but finally managed it. This seems an atypical addiction story. To me, the difference between her obsession with poker and addiction with I-poker is small, but it may be real. less

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