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It's a Question of Timing.......2005-03-03
I was given Gizzard's masterpiece AFTER I had bypass surgery and have shared it with 15 friends who have had heart surgery since mine. But, the timing is important. This is a book not-to-be-read BEFORE you go under the knife; it may cause you to change your mind! But read after the big event, it's hilarious and you must be careful that you don't laugh so hard you pull your staples out. I highly recommend it as a vital recuperative tool.
GREAT READING !!!!!!.......2004-10-13
This is a great book for everyone or anybody who has a love one going to have open heart surgery,or has had. This book opened my eyes to alot of things my mom has went through and going through now after having valve replacement a third time.
Georgia's Mark Twain writes about his breakin' heart...........2004-05-07
Lewis Grizzard was, like his friend Weyman C. Wannamaker, a Great American. His writing celebrated his Southern Heritage and is full of stories about faithful dogs, good country music and women who looked so good they'd make a preacher break out in a sweat. He often accompanied his beloved Georgia Bulldog football team, and reporting from New Orleans at the 1980 Sugar Bowl he wrote that he had just experienced a turtle soup that was so good it "couldn't have been any better if you had known the turtle personally." He was to the written word what Jerry Clower was to the spoken, and I don't think it's a coincidence that when Lewis branched off into stand-up comedy in his later years that his style seemed most reminiscent of the Big Man from Mississippi. Lewis loved his momma, loved his country and loved his culture, and he wrote about the things he loved in a way that if you didn't love them too, at least you could understand why he did.
This volume details some of his tribulations related to his eventually fatal coronary disease.
He is missed.
Southern Humor at its Best.......2000-06-07
Lewis will make you smile, laugh, cry, and everything in between as he weaves another magical story in only the way he can. You'll learn about his growing up to need open heart surgery and how he'll never be able to look at a plate of BBQ the same again!
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A hardened ex-cop with great instincts, a sharp eye, and a short fuse, Tony Valentine still catches crooks, but a very special breed of them. He nabs hustlers who rob casinos, and finds the fatal flaw that allowed the place to get ripped off in the first place. Sometimes that means biting the hand that feeds him, but Valentine isn’t paid to sugarcoat the cold, hard truth. Along flashy strips and in seedy dives, if there’s a game to be fixed, Valentine knows how to spot the tricks, the scams, the sleight of hand. And with his new case, there’s definitely more on the table than meets the eye.
Harry Smooth Stone, head of security at the Micanopy Indian Reservation Casino in South Florida, desperately needs Valentine’s expertise. A blackjack dealer has rigged a game, dealt a player eighty-four winning hands in a row, and disappeared. Valentine’s gut tells him a different story: that the runaway dealer is alligator food and his employers are keeping secrets.
But the missing dealer is part of an even bigger, far deadlier scheme. Valentine’s trail leads him to Rico Blanco, a ruthless gangster who once worked for John Gotti, his shady, elusive partner-in-crime, Victor Marks, and a bombshell named Candy Hart, a hooker with dreams of love, a combination tailored made to double-cross. It appears they have a con going down involving a cocky, filthy rich Brit and his millions of dollars. Valentine’s challenge: to figure out how all the pieces of the seamy puzzle fit together . . . before his luck runs out and his life goes bust.
In prose that sizzles with style and a wicked sense of humor, with plot twists that could cause whiplash, James Swain takes readers behind the neon-lit scenes of casinos and the gambling trade—and reveals a colorful cast of hustlers and con men, bookies and grifters. Make no mistake about it: on the crowded shelves of fiction, Sucker Bet is a sure thing.
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A hardened ex-cop with great instincts, a sharp eye, and a short fuse, Tony Valentine still catches crooks, but a very special breed of them. He nabs hustlers who rob casinos, and finds the fatal flaw that allowed the place to get ripped off in the first place. Sometimes that means biting the hand that feeds him, but Valentine isn't paid to sugarcoat the cold, hard truth. Along flashy strips and in seedy dives, if there's a game to be fixed, Valentine knows how to spot the tricks, the scams, the sleight of hand. And with his new case, there's definitely more on the table than meets the eye.
Harry Smooth Stone, head of security at the Micanopy Indian Reservation Casino in South Florida, desperately needs Valentine's expertise. A blackjack dealer has rigged a game, dealt a player eighty-four winning hands in a row, and disappeared. Valentine's gut tells him a different story: that the runaway dealer is alligator food and his employers are keeping secrets.
But the missing dealer is part of an even bigger, far deadlier scheme. Valentine's trail leads him to Rico Blanco, a ruthless gangster who once worked for John Gotti; his shady, elusive partner-in-crime, Victor Marks; and a bombshell named Candy Hart, a hooker with dreams of love, a combination tailor made to double-cross. It appears they have a con going down involving a cocky, filthy rich Brit and his millions of dollars. Valentine's challenge: to figure out how all the pieces of the seamy puzzle fit together...before his luck runs out and his life goes bust.
In prose that sizzles with style and a wicked sense of humor, with plot twists that could cause whiplash, James Swain takes readers behind the neon-lit scenes of casinos and the gambling trade—and reveals a colorful cast of hustlers and con men, bookies and grifters. Make no mistake about it: on the crowded shelves of fiction, Sucker Bet is a sure thing.
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5 stars? Hell No!.......2007-08-24
Good people of Amazon review board should consider giving 5 stars to books that are exceptionally well written. Although this is a good story with interesting characters, it is certainly not 5 stars.
This is a good book to read when you are on a plane and there is absolutely nothing to do. If you don't read it, your life didn't really miss anything important.
If you enjoy gambling or visits to casino, you will enjoy it but don't expect too much. You may want to consider "Bringing Down The House" as this one is based on true story.
Entertaining but not Quite Believable.......2006-09-21
Sucker Bet, a novel by James Swain featuring Tony Valentine, is not the kind of book that makes you say "this could have happened for real". It does make you laugh, get caught up in the plot, and it made me re-read several passages after finishing the book because several minor characters were interesting to me.
Tony Valentine is an ex-cop who catches gambling cheats for casinos and struggles with his own personal and family life at the same time. In this novel, he ends up caught in a crossfire between different gambling scams, involving the Micanopy Nation, a Sicilian mobster, alligators in Tony's car, a British former rock drummer, and a hooker with the unlikely name of Candy Hart. Swain's major talent consists of both building a plotline that involves all these characters and giving each one of them a certain depth, well-crafted backgrounds of their own.
Personally, the most interesting parts of the book for me involved the Micanopys, with a glimpse of their customs, problems, justice system, and relations with the society and government around them. Swain does an effective job of portraying a little-known world within the United States, managing to inspire curiosity about the lives of Native Americans.
Some reviewers point out the less believable aspects of the story, such as a chimpanzee who imagines people's favorite songs and plays them on the ukulele and a hoax involving a rock band - that's right, these parts are not believable, but they do their part to make the book more fun.
The only serious shortcomings I would note are two: one is the ending, which left me a bit in doubt as to how some things happened or were understood, and the other is that with the exception of Tony's daughter-in-law, all Latino characters are portrayed rather unsympathetically.
Overall, I enjoyed this book much more than Grift Sense, as Swain seems to have grown into his writing style, and became eager to read more novels with Tony Valentine and the other characters.
A touch of Hiassen.......2005-12-07
But as entertaining as ever. It's fun to learn while being held captive to the page.
Elmore Leonard, he 'aint. But............2005-08-03
Florida, colorful criminals and various other supporting cast members, as well as a review on the book jacket that compares him to Elmore Leonard...does not make him so.
I hate how more and more fiction writers want us to take huge leaps and suspend our disbelief. [Next line is a spolier] - a keith moon like drummer it turns out never did his drumming...he merely had a midget playing in a hiddens speaker behind him! What!?
Now onto the good stuff - decent story otherwise. Love the main character who shares gambling stuff without promoting it, gives the reader the inside feel.
If I could, I would give this 2.5 stars...since it was good enough to make me want to read another of his, I gave him a generous 3.
More fun than a day at the races.......2005-06-15
James Swain's Tony Valntine character is always fun. Tough, but soft; chronically depressed, but always hopeful; crafty to a fault. Valentine is an ex-cop from Atlantic City who now consults with casinos eager to catch scammers, if not stop them before they win a penny.
This is the third of the Tony Valentine mysteries. The first one ("Grift Sense") was dynamite - and each successor has gotten better.
The action takes place largely at a Florida Indian Reservation casino. A blackjack player is dealt 84 winning hands in a row, a statistical impossibility.The dealer disappears. But that's only the beginning of the story as Tony gets involved. The blackjack scam is only the tip of the iceberg.
Every page is fun. Swain's plots are complex, but always believable. The characters, each and every one of them, radiate believability.
Swain's style is compelling and Tony Valentine is one heck of a hero.
Jerry
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- To Be Or Not To Be Angry.
- Really enjoyable read
- Fails as a narrative
- A film critic's own story rather than a personal description of the madness of the "Internet" crowd
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In 2000, the bottom dropped out of David Denby's life when his wife announced she was leaving him. To make matters worse, it looked like he might lose their beloved apartment in the split. Determined to hold onto his home and seized by the 'irrational exuberance' of the stock market, Denby joined the investment frenzy with a particular goal:to make $1 million in one year so he could buy out his wife's share of their home. Denby gathered courage from stock analysts, from the siren song of CNBC, and from tech gurus and lying CEOs at investment conferences. He befriended tech stars like ImClone founder Sam Waksal and Merrill Lynch analyst Henry Blodgett, both now disgraced in scandals. He plunged into a season of mania, swept forward on the currents of greed, hucksterism, and native American optimism that caught up so many in that era-with cataclysmic results. AMERICAN SUCKER is his account of those years of madness and then of recovered sanity, written with the rueful insight and bitter humor that only a wiser man could attain. What began as a money chase developed into an encounter with such eternal issues as envy, time, love, and death. With wit, warmth, and tough-minded candor, Denby explores not only his own motives and illusions, but the whole panoply of desire, greed, and willful blindness that consumed the nation.
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In 2000, the bottom dropped out of David Denby¿s life when his wife announced she was leaving him. To make matters worse, it looked like he might lose their beloved apartment in the split. Determined to hold onto his home and seized by the ¿irrational exuberance¿ of the stock market, Denby joined the investment frenzy with a particular goal: to make $1 million in one year so he could buy out his wife¿s share of their home. Denby gathered courage from stock analysts, from the siren song of CNBC, and from the tech gurus and lying CEOs at investment conferences. He befriended tech stars like ImClone founder Sam Waksal and Merrill Lynch analyst Henry Blodget, both now disgraced in scandals. He plunged into a season of mania, swept forward in the currents of greed, hucksterism, and naïve American optimism that caught up so many in that era with cataclysmic results.
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To Be Or Not To Be Angry........2006-12-24
In many ways, the author is the typical loser; first, his wife and children after the divorce, and then trying to find a way to get on with life -- so what else in new? It happens to the majority of us at one time or another, and we live on to regret marrying that person in the first place. A thing is itself and not another thing. He thinks in riddles sometimes.
Instead of accepting the inevitable and moving on to a new place, a better place, David is the typical American male who thinks he's the king of the castle in his own home. Far from it. The woman always rules the roost, or in the new movie I just saw, 'Charlotte's Web,' the rat does). He wants his cake and eat it too; the fancy Upper East Side apartment near Central Park. Holding on to the past, be it an expensive apartment, a woman who loves someone else and not you (perhaps never you), an old clunker (car) for sentimental reasons -- none of that works these days.
The coming year, 2007, is the time for freedom -- at last. Freedom to be yourself in your own way and not molded by another. Freedom from the demands and drudgery of a bad marriage. DAvid, a dreamer with a vision, decided he, a novice at the stock market, can make $1,000,000 to buy his former wife's share of the abode. If he'd loved her, he would have given it to her "for the sake of the children," being a greedy man, he wants to live a movie fantasy life creating the same "home" for the kids to visit. Sucker! Kids like variety these days, they get tired of the same old thing, and they grow up and away from the nest before you know it.
Don't trust a tech guru. One in Milwaukee had the ability to hack into my computer to destroy it via the Internet. Davidted the wrong people, Martha Stewart's financial group (she spent time in prison for tryiing to bilk the public; I won't watch her ever again). On a show made in Heaven, she pretends that nothing ever happened and she can prance right back into one's living room and be a friend again. No siree, I don't forgive easily. Once a felon, always a felon. It sticks with you.
Envy is described as a snake in the garden and, finding nothing vain to attack, would turn back and bite itself in bitterness. No one gets too rich to envy others. I once spent a week in a strange house to dog-sit, and after getting out of that luxury, I said I would never envy those in big houses ever again. Upper New Yorkers ahve the illusion that life's greatest daners can be avoided, that everything will be okay "if only one never makes a mistake." One cannot make a mistake! I have news for him, we all make mistakes all of the time, from the simple silly idiot kind to the sublime. Choosing the wrong people to love and trust is the biggest mistake in anyone's life.
Desire, regret, passions, obsession, mistakes are life and we can only strive to recover in one piece the calamity these things cause. Some part of our psyche gets lost along the way. Money is the root of all evil but it does not buy happiness, contentment, real love. Lose it and you're a bum, but homefree to be yourself and enjoy just being alive. He's a freelance writer, the most desperate of all literary occupations -- who says all writers are literary? Not so many I know can even write proper grammar. False successes like Yahoo and AOL (I'd add Google to that category as those boys never grew up -- their tree will fall.) were the investments which failed for him. He quotes Alexander Pope, Dante, Freud, and Theodore Dreiser to show the reader what a well-rounded intellectual he is. Greed dissolves the foundations of character. Along the way, he lost his balance.
Greed was, is, a soul-destroying force, a canker wearing away one's innards. Religions, political, and economic moralists consider man's "reason" a destructive madness. God is wrathful in the Old Testament of the Bible; so is Achilles in 'Iliad' the first warrior of the West. Indifference to mass suffering is the most destructive form of sloth. Envy is an unambiguously nasty, a low despicable emotion. Envy ruled the Upper West Side of Manhattan and David Denby, film critic for 'The New Yorker.' He and Betsy Pickle would make a good pair.
Really enjoyable read.......2006-10-06
Let's try not to build great expectations here. Denby is not a financial professional, he's not even a financial journalist. He's a self-described "liberal arts guy". Don't read this expecting to get a lot of insight into the market or as a "how to" guide (or even a "how not to" guide).
Read this because it's an enjoyable read. I read it on the train on my commute and was thoroughly entertained. He offers great insight and philosphical introspection into what was going on in his life and how his obsession with the market intertwined with it and coincided with some major events in his life. He also offers first-hand glimpses into some very high profile stories from the bursting of "the bubble".
Good stuff.
Fails as a narrative.......2006-07-26
The premise of this book intrigued me greatly. The effects of the 2000 crash as told through the eyes of an average Joe who was swept up in the hysteria? Fascinating. I looked forward to reading and feeling the effects of that great decline in the stock market as told by an ordinary man who had experienced it first hand. I've read plenty about the bursting of the tech bubble-now, I thought, I could feel the human element behind it.
Unfortunately there is no human element in American Sucker. Denby himself is a hollow character, flat and one-sided, puffing himself up with intellectual and philosophical musings while failing spectacularly at creating himself as a character. It is the sort of narrative one would expect from a medieval morality tale-as the market spirals downward (though there is little actual commentary on this-it's more of an incidental) and the technology bubble collapses, Denby receives just the right revelation and insight at just the right time. Mere days before the March 2000 meltdown he ponders the seven deadly sins and decides that, in fact, greed is the most deadly of them. How convenient that such an epiphany should come at the exact perfect moment And it does not stop there-without fail an impending crisis is prefixed with an ironically well-placed musing on that exact subject just days or hours before the event actually happens.
Yet for all these discussions on moral and philosophical discussions, for all the flashes of light the muse of intellectual snobbery generously gives our "hero," Denby proves his incompetence at seeing that which is right in front of his face and does absolutely nothing, contenting himself with metaphysical revelations of wealth, greed, and envy as his capital vaporizes before his glazed over eyes. To call it missing the forest for the trees would be an understatement.
The NASDAQ crashes, but it goes unnoticed among romantic idealizations of festive holiday celebrations and epiphanies that come, conveniently, at just the right time and as fully developed ideas. Denby is shown the writing on the wall repeatedly but cannot recognize it-for all his attempts at flaunting his intellect he is remarkably slow. When someone tells him something he does not want to hear he conveniently dismisses that person as a fool, regardless of any amount of reverence or respect held for that person before his or her naysaying.
There are redemptive moments. At one point, Christmas, 2000, Denby actually talks about his stocks, and allows the reader the gaze inside his portfolio he has withheld for 200 plus pages. At that point, as in so many others, Denby realizes, with uncanny clarity and amazing insight (hindsight is, however, 20/20) that he's made a mistake. Yet still he does nothing. There are other moments as well-brief respites from the intellectual fluff-where Denby comments on the market, describes how he felt, what the general feeling on the street was, and at times he even elaborates on the hope he and others struggled to keep alive. Unfortunately these moments are few and far between-more often market commentary serves only as a launching point for some snobbish flexing of the intellect.
All in all, it seems that Denby had a contract to write a book about the market, and, with the bursting of the tech bubble, this ended up being the best he could come up with. He even alludes to this several times in the text. And so it's possible that this book was thrown together without much regard for actual content, and may have even had a predetermined length which is achieved only through Denby's incessant ramblings. Having read the book, that certainly seems to be the case. Or maybe Denby is just that poor a tale-teller, whatever his talent as film critic may be. Either way, I couldn't help but wonder, as I finished the book if the American Sucker referred to in the title was actually ME, having taken the time to read the book and having been disappointed more or less throughout.
A film critic's own story rather than a personal description of the madness of the "Internet" crowd.......2006-06-09
I had been attracted by the very smart design of the book cover which resembled the tickers on Bloomberg, and the very positive comment by Justice Little, one of my most favorite reviewer here on Amazon. So bad that I had read only half of it and given up. Perhaps I had too high an expectation of it as the modern day "Extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of the crowds" per description on the back cover, and that it would be filled with plenty of feelings/experience of the author during the whole Internet Bubble catastrophe. In fact, the author had given me much stuff of his personal life that's not investment/trading related at all.
If and only if you will be satisfied with the stylish writing of a renowned film critic irrespective of what he wrote, you may give it a try. For those who wanna read not to fall into the same kind of irrational exuberance trap in his/her investment life, "Devil take the hindmost" and "Origins of the Crash" are much better choices.
an analysis of greed within collapse.......2006-04-30
people do crazy things when they're under stress. we have flights of fancy in our dreams of escaping our sorry fates. this is what happened to Denby. his marriage was ending after 18 years and he escaped into the exuberance of the tech boom. he got greedy and he lost a lot of money. as you can see from a lot of other reviews, you can't feel too sorry for a guy who sold his manhattan apartment for 1.5 million (split with his ex-wife) and lives as a movie critic for the new yorker. sometimes he comes off as a spoiled, pretentious bourgeois which indeed he is, but he is also capable of a certain amount of useful self-analysis, even insight. his idea of the great ends of life consisting of survival, love, achievement, knowledge, and belief are a nice way of describing a substitute for greed as a motivational force. this book is a nice companion for further study of human motivations, especially in times of crisis. although greed can be part of other motivations, as an end in itself it is empty and destructive. i think some of the reviewers who give the worst ratings for this book stopped reading before he redeems himself somewhat toward the end of the book in gaining control of this impulse and becoming more of a human being again.
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Originally published in 1938, Sucker’s Progress is a complete look at old-time gamesmanship in America. From Midwestern riverboats to East Coast racetracks, Asbury explores the legal, and illegal, history of gambling in pre–World War I America. With a keen eye and acerbic voice, Asbury defines the world of gambling as one of “sharpers” and “suckers”: those who excel at the games by cheating, and their victims. From notorious gambling havens like Chicago and New Orleans to lesser-known outposts in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and Cincinnati, Ohio, Asbury examines the gambling houses, big and small, which peppered the American landscape. Also included are photographs and details of the lives of some of America’s most famous gamblers, including Mike McDonald, John Morrissey, and Richard Canfield, as well as their infamous counterparts like “Canada Bill” and “Charley Black Eyes,” who made their names as grifters and con men. Asbury also details the games these men played, describing the rules and origins of a number of dice and card games. From one-dollar lottery tickets to thousand-dollar poker antes, America’s love of gambling thrives today, but it was during Asbury’s era that gambling was established as an American passion.
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One of the funniest books I've ever read.......1999-08-07
This is easily in the top three funniest books I've ever read(and I've read alot.) The imagination behind the Wade brother'sletters themselves is incredible. And clearly their targets just don't get it. Please, Wade brothers, do this again!
A Satirical Trojan Horse!!!.......1999-06-21
The authors do a masterful job of exposing the humorless self-importance of the subjects of their correspondence. The discerning reader will detect a strain of melancholy and futility running throughout the mirthless, dehumanized responses to the authors' inquiries. Bravo, Brothers Wade!
Simply GREAT !.......1999-06-20
For those with a good sense of humor ... this is a must read !! I knew the book just a little before Mr. James Wade came to my school. Then he was my professor in a great management course. You can't imagine how fun and professional this great person is. The book gives perfectly the image of how "Woody" is creative ! Do not miss this hilarious peace of work !!
Do not try this at home.......1999-06-17
I got this book a couple years ago and love it. It's great to take to places where you'll have to wait a while because you don't need to read it from beginning to end- you can open it to anyplace and flip around. I loved how the Wade brothers assumed the identies of all sorts of people, from mental patients to animal jewelry designers. It just shows how versatile they are. Their letters are always formal, though hilarious (such as asking Listerine for recipies and trying to find a house shaped like a W that can withstand atomic bombs). An excellent book for long- or short-term reading.
Laughs with class - reality can be funny........1997-05-16
A very good follow up to MY BUSH PIG'S NAME IS BORIS, Humorist James "Woody" Wade is joined by his brother, Stu "Pointster" Wade in this effort. It's great to see that the business world can poke fun at itself by doing nothing more than business as usual. Can be easily read in one sitting if you don't mind cleaning up after yourself from time to time
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Life Histories of North American Cuckoos, Goatsuckers, Hummingbirds and their Allies by Arthur Cleveland Bent. Arthur Cleveland Bent was one of America's outstanding ornithoogists and his twenty-volume series on the life histories of American birds, published under the auspices of the Smithsonian Instituttion, forms the most comprehensive, most complete, most-used source of information in existence...
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