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Title: The Last Honest Place in America: Paradise and Perdition in the New Las Vegas by Marc Cooper ISBN: 1-56025-490-4 Publisher: Nation Books Pub. Date: 10 May, 2004 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: This Should Be A New York Times Bestseller!!
Comment: What a great book...the best I've read in ages. Cooper writes with incredible style, grace and wit. One amazing character after another. His style reminds me of a Californian Kinky Friedman (if such a creature could exist). This book made me want to do do two things...(1) read more about Las Vegas and (2) Go to Las Vegas this summer. I plan to do both. And I hope Marc Cooper is planning a follow-up book soon.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Surprisingly Great Book. Vegas Baby!
Comment: I say surprising because my interest in Las Vegas is usually about zilch. But when I saw this book was by Cooper, a writer whose political work I know very well and usually like, I decided to take a risk. It was worth it. This book is really an interesting mix between straightforward reporting that situates Vegas in the popular culture, and some great first-person riffs from the author. His blackjack playing seems awesome. In fact, I have to admit that reading this book made me want to look Cooper up and have him take me with him on his next raid into Vegas. The writing is really, really exciting. He's not as over the top as Hunter Thompson, but just as much fun. My two favorite parts (without giving anything way): his profile of a transgender nude dancer and his reporting on a summit of gambling corporations. Vegas, Baby!
Rating: 5
Summary: Roll over Hunter S. Thompson!
Comment: I came across this curio on the front desk of Barnes and Noble. Is he #%*%# kidding? I thought as I read the title. I started reading it; so absorbed that I figured I'd better buy it. Okay, so isn't Hunter S Thompson...exactly....its more like a MIke Davis's City of Quartz..or that strange Louis Theroux show that used to be on Bravo, full of oddballs...anyway, whatever, I loved it...
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Title: In the Shadow of the Strip: Las Vegas Stories (Western Literature Series) by Richard Logsdon, Todd Scott Moffett, Tina D. Eliopulos ISBN: 0874175496 Publisher: Univ of Nevada Pr Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Neon Metropolis: How Las Vegas Started the Twenty-First Century by Hal Rothman ISBN: 0415926122 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 01 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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Title: Suburban Xanadu: The Casino Resort on the Las Vegas Strip and Beyond by David G. Schwartz ISBN: 0415935571 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: The Lucky (Western Literature Series) by H. Lee Barnes ISBN: 0874175399 Publisher: Univ of Nevada Pr Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Running Scared: The Life and Treacherous Times of Las Vegas Casino King Steve Wynn by John L. Smith ISBN: 1568581904 Publisher: Four Walls Eight Windows Pub. Date: 02 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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