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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/650014.The_Gambler?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="The Gambler (Dover Thrift Editions)" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1176746286m/650014.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/650014.The_Gambler?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">The Gambler</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3356.Fyodor_Dostoevsky">Fyodor Dostoevsky</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21690505?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 4 of 5 stars<br/>I shall presently spiral toward an obsession with Roulette. Never have I so fantastically anticipated the next page (This line would be my quote found on the back of the book with this tag: " - J. Cristaldi, New York Times Never-Heard of Author"). In all sincerity, I begat the book with choppy reading and found myself rather lost, and that was a mistake because when I finally sat down to invest time in the read (a quick damn read too) the plot was so delicious that I had to go back and re-read the beginning in order to savor its thick soupy mess of French, Russian, and torrid love affairs. Granny, is by far, one of the greatest characters of our time; one of some 12 trillion. Time and again I am confounded by her fastidiousness and slapdash thrill rides at the roulette wheel. I foolishly, like most 12th graders, assumed she to be the gambler, when all along I failed to see our friend Alexey as the truly sick protagonist. Alas, I feel foolish, but will recover soon enough, and though the odds may be against me, I'm willing to stake everything on zero or black, as red as appeared already 12 times. Go, and never darken my towels again. <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/1130257?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>