Catch Me If You Can

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Summary: The most interesting and humorous book on true crime!
Review: This book was absolutely the most interesting and humorous book I have read in a long time! I have never heard about this guy until I read this book,and I've heard there is a movie either coming out about this story or that is already out but have not seen it yet. I would definitely recommend this book to everyone. It's fasicnating being in the mind of this conman, reading how little simple things got him over $2.5 million!! It makes me laugh when I see how he did these things so easily.

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Summary: This book is a real "Catch"
Review: In reading this book, it is almost unbelievable to think that these events actually took place.

Frank W. Abagnale is a high school drop out whose parent's divorce affected him deeply. As a result, he set off on a crime spree that is astounding by any measure.

Over the course of a few years he cashed millions of dollars in bad checks in every state in the US and in 26 countries while posing as an airline pilot (even taking the controls once), a doctor (working at a hospital for a year), and a lawyer(working at the Attorney Generals office). AND the most unbelievable part is that this all happened BEFORE HE TURNED 22!!

Mr. Abagnale's schemes are nothing new, but his approach is what made him successful. He confidence and unthinkable brazenness made him a cult figure among con-men.

Read this book now! It is an easy read and you probably can finish it in a few hours. Then, stay tuned for the movie with Leo DiCaprio playing Mr. Abagnale and Steven Speilberg directing. It is sure to be a good one!

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Summary: A quick read
Review: You have to read this book, and don't expect it will take you more than a day or two. Once you pick this up, you won't be able to put it down. This is an excellent true book. I've heard Frank Abagnale speak also - he's lead a fascinating life.

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Summary: A Book You Won't Want to Put Down!!!
Review: I first read this book about three years ago and I recommend to every serious reader and/or scholar that I come in contact with. This is simply an amazing book that will keep you up all night reading, wanting to find out what happens next.

This is the true story of Frank Abagnale. He's a teenager in the 60's and this book relives his advetures living a disguised life as a Pan Am pilot. He flies around the world for free, eats at scrumptios restaurants, stays at luxurious hotels, and dates beautiful, older women. All for free. He cons his way around the world and into hearts and into milions of dollars, all while playing tag with an american FBI agent that is in hot pursuit.
This guy actually held a Pan Am contest for future stewardesses.......and he didn't even work for Pan Am. Unlike a lot of memoir reading that is informational, this book is not a dry read...it's easy and enjoyable!!!! READ THIS BOOK!!!!!!!

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Summary: An entertaining read
Review: I liked this - I've not read a book in a few months and wanted to find something light - I actually first seen this book in a supermarket while waiting for my girlfriend to finish elsewhere... It caught my attention and it was a must read... I think if I were to read books more often I would perhaps have been less excited about it (though still worth reading). The book is an autobiography of Frank W Abagnale covering his crimes in the 60s - Interesting and very believeable considering the technology available at the time - however it would have been nice to hear a little remorse and a little about what he has done since then...

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Summary: Abagnale was a creative genius
Review: This is a great book because it's an interesting story and because it's fun to be a voyeur into Abagnale's exploits. I'm sure that some women would not like this book as much as men because it has a certain dose of machismo. I'm curious to know what happened to Abagnale after age 21!

I finished the book in one evening. It is well written and easy to read.

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Summary: Very Entertaining
Review: I really enjoyed this book. It is a great first person account of the con artist. It also re-teaches an old lesson. Audacity is almost always taken for authority.

Abagnale learned at a very young age that honest people do not usually expect to be taken advantage of by someone who is dressed well and is articulate. He used his good looks and air of confidence to do things that seem and should be impossible.

Catch me if you can is a book that is very difficult to put down. I would recommend it for a little mind candy to any reader interested in suspense. It is the real life version of Sheldon's "Master of the Game" minus the romance.

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Summary: Too entertaining to be nonfiction
Review: I have a hard time believing the audacity of the author, but true or not, this book is an incredibly good read. Got it when I got home at 9 PM Tuesday and had it finished my Wednesday morning, I could not put it down. These guys (the book was written "with Stan Redding") are incredibly talented, and I wouldn't hesitate to buy more books written by either of them.

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Summary: Hilarious----Tale of the con artist
Review: After Frank got caught, he was subject to multiple evaluations in two years by criminologist/psychiatrist, the result concluded he had low criminal threshold; The FBI agent who worked hard to get him caught, remarked "You conned this shrink ( the criminologist,) didn't you Frank? ... low criminal threshold? what if you had high criminal threshold--looted Fort Knox?" And this is a story of a con artist, so extraordinare that I wonder whether the story could be true after all.

Frank is a gifted person, and it helps him to be a resourceful con, forger, imposter who lied, scammed, conned, cheated anyone, anywhere in any circumtance with ease, at his pleasure. His most noted accomplishment was that, he who didn't take any laws course, passed a state attorney licence exam in Georgia in three tries in the span of 6 month to become a rightful professional to practice laws!!!

In contrary to other reviewers, the book is well written, the author is utmostly outspoken and honest about his criminal activities in the book (... modesty is not my virtue, and at that time, virtue was not one of my virtues...)

You will like this book if you are not prejudice to Frank, or disgusted in his scams, this book will grab readers by the neck, put them in a chair and have them read the book cover to cover in one or two seatings in exchange of good laughes and marvels.

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Summary: Hilarious and amazing journey of a con artist
Review: This is the amazing story of a con artist who had to swindle money to finance the expense of sex at 16. This con artists who was also a forger, impostor, ready to cheat ANYONE in his path for fun and profit in the most incredible manners, that causes me to wonder whether the story could be true at all?

Here is the kid at less than 19 years old, who learned details how to be regconized as Pan Am pilot, traveled the world all over for free and swindled Pam Am (his imaginary employer) tons of $$$. By passing the state exam to practice laws in Gorgia within 6 months shows how keen the high school dropout was; I find this event is the most remarkable trait about Frank Abagnale -- exceptional smart mind which few, if any, can match to help him con, scam, cheat, lie to anyone, anywhere in any circumtance.

When tested by psychologist, his "criminal threshold" was minimal, Abagnale was confronted by FBI agent: "You conned this shrink also, Frank? Low criminal threshold, what if you have high criminal threshold, looted Fort Knox?" This remark poses a question about Frank, whether his actions are just juvenile exuberance where he was free of any moral anchors to fund his passion to discover the world or he was just an exceptional con whose lie and cheat was his first order nature, undetected even by the experts. He must be somewhere in between.

Fun and profit is probably fit to describe the book, he conned young girls in college to be PAN AM employees for public relation work, took them to Europe in his brotherly protection, paid them with faked PAN AM checks, had the girls endorsed the checks to him, scammed his net in NY and back to fun with his girls in 24 hrs in London was the benchmark of his physical stamina and mental imagination.

Hilarious, loaded with details. Con story at its best if readers are free of prejudice.