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Title: Poker Face : A Girlhood Among Gamblers by Katy Lederer ISBN: 0-609-60898-3 Publisher: Crown Pub. Date: 12 August, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.8 (10 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: A disappointing gambit
Comment: This story starts out full of promise of something deep and insightful, something poignant but somewhere along the middle of the story it bogs down in mediocrity. If I want to read a how to poker book, I will. I wanted to read about the people involved in these stories. It concludes somewhat better, reaching a little further but generally a disappointment.
Rating: 5
Summary: Refreshing
Comment: "Poker Face" is a quick read, but not because it skimps on content - rather, it's the type you can't put down. Lederer is a poet and it shows in her prose - succinct, musical phrasings, poignant metaphor, hints of sensuousness.
This book is not for those who are interested only in learning poker nitty-gritty or intimate details of the lives of Howard Lederer and Annie Duke. This book tells the story of a woman with an intriguing history, lost, finding herself.
I highly recommend it.
Rating: 3
Summary: It just skims the surface...
Comment: ...of what obviously is a much deeper story then what we get. Lederer's memoirs show glimpses into a rich, quirky upbringing surrounded by a family of colorfully framed characters yet somehow stops short of fully fleshing out this tale and the folk involved. Part of the problem is attributed to the length - a quickly digestible tome of 200 pages in which within Lederer ambitiously attempts to capture:
1) a coming of age story,
2) a portrait of a dysfunctional family,
3) musings on the psychology of gamblers,
4) recollections on the process of developing oneself into a 'serious poker player,
5) a, 'making it on my own,' tale, and...
6) brief glimpses into the writing life.
Certainly an interesting memoir worthy of your time if any of the above 6 subjects capture your fancy but utlimately it will you leave wishing for more content and focus on her most interesting subjects (mostly her ruminations on poker).
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Title: Positively Fifth Street: Murderers, Cheetahs, and Binion's World Series of Poker by James McManus ISBN: 0374236488 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 16 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: The Biggest Game in Town by A. Alvarez ISBN: 0811834344 Publisher: Chronicle Books Pub. Date: March, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Big Deal: One Year as a Professional Poker Player by Anthony Holden ISBN: 0349115192 Publisher: Abacus Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Play Poker Like the Pros by Phil Hellmuth Jr. ISBN: 0060005726 Publisher: HarperResource Pub. Date: 06 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Amarillo Slim in a World Full of Fat People : The Memoirs of the Greatest Gambler Who Ever Lived by Amarillo Slim Preston, Greg Dinkin ISBN: 0060542357 Publisher: HarperEntertainment Pub. Date: 06 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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