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Summary: Please do not post this
Review: I made a correction, and rather then fix my origional review, you put up my correction.Can you please delete my correction 'post' and simply fix my origional one? THANKS :)
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Summary: Please do not post this
Review: I made a correction, and rather then fix my origional review, you put up my correction. Can you please delete my correction 'post' and simply fix my origional one? THANKS :)
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Summary: I hated the author's sense of humor
Review: I was really looking forward to reading this book. However, the author's attempts at making witty jokes throughout the novel really grow old. There's a couple on every page, and they're not good. Even the stories he had to write weren't exactly gripping. I much prefer the dated "Ken Uston on Blackjack" if you want to read about high-stakes, professional Blackjack play.
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Summary: I hated the author's sense of humor
Review: I was really looking forward to reading this book. However, the author's attempts at making witty jokes throughout the novel really grow old. There's a couple on every page, and they're not good. Even the stories he had to write weren't exactly gripping. I much prefer the dated "Ken Uston on Blackjack" if you want to read about high-stakes, professional Blackjack play.
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Summary: CORRECTION
Review: I wrote the review on Blackjack Autumn... I messed up and put "I more enjoyable.." rather then "A more enjoyable" Can you fix that? Thanks
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Summary: CORRECTION
Review: I wrote the review on Blackjack Autumn... I messed up and put "I more enjoyable.." rather then "A more enjoyable" Can you fix that? Thanks
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Summary: Great Fun
Review: There are certain books that are fun to read and instructive too. This is one of them. Mr. Meadow recounts his experiences in an intelligent and funny way. You won't be bored. I think Barry Meadow now joins Frank Scoblete and Michael Konik as one of the three best writers in the gambling field for color and entertainment value.
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Summary: If you REALLY like to read about blackjack . . .
Review: This book works well as in-flight entertainment on the way to a gambling vacation, although Meadow's writing is about as predictable as a cocktail waitress with a 25-cent tip. I'm not sure what that means, but that's a good illustration of Barry Meadow's prose style. Over and over and over and over he employs that technique, which for lack of a better name I'll call sarcastic simile. Card counters are about as popular with casino personnel as Jerry Falwell at a gay-pride parade. Over the long haul, counters are as likely to lose as Mister Rogers is to be caught in a Watts cocaine bust. Mesquite, Nevada, is growing faster than Warren Buffett's bank account. There are probably 200 more examples. If you can put up with that, it's a decent book. If not, imagine being stuck in an elevator with an unfunny version of Dennis Miller. (There -- are you happy, Barry? Now you've got me doing it!)
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Summary: Enjoyable
Review: This guy is pretty funny. As other's have mentioned, he really overdoes the metaphors, and it gets tiresome. "As (blank) as" is written probably a hundred times in this book. Or, in the writer's parlance, "the author uses this same joke form about as often as guppies ovulate." Or, "the author pulls out this joke form faster than than Pee Wee Herman would go down boxing Mike Tyson." When he's not using those lines though, he can be LOL funny. And of course, for any blackjack player, stories like his are pretty much irresistable. If you have ever fantasized about making money as a card counter, buy it.
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Summary: Enjoyable
Review: This guy is pretty funny. As other's have mentioned, he really overdoes the metaphors, and it gets tiresome. "As (blank) as" is written probably a hundred times in this book. Or, in the writer's parlance, "the author uses this same joke form about as often as guppies ovulate." Or, "the author pulls out this joke form faster than than Pee Wee Herman would go down boxing Mike Tyson." When he's not using those lines though, he can be LOL funny. And of course, for any blackjack player, stories like his are pretty much irresistable. If you have ever fantasized about making money as a card counter, buy it.
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