Dale's review
Busting Vegas: A True Story of Monumental Excess, Sex, Love, Violence, and Beating the Odds
by Ben Mezrich
Dale's review
Busting Vegas: A True Story of Monumental Excess, Sex, Love, Violence, and Beating the Odds by Ben Mezrich
Dale's review
rating:
Sixth book I read during my new commute. I love vacationing in Vegas and I enjoy playing blackjack quite a bit, so any book hitting on those subjects will probably entertain me. This one was no exception. I had already read Ben Mezrich's previous book on Vegas, blackjack and beating the casinos: Bringing Down the House, and thought it was a four-star book. This semi-sequel gets only three from me, for two reasons. One, they cover a lot of similar ground, so what was fresh and interesting in the first felt rehashed in the second. Two, the "characters" in Bringing Down the House were more sympathetic than the ones in Busting Vegas. ("Characters" is in quotes because both books are based on true stories, and the players depicted are thus based on real people - Mezrich can only distort things so much.) Still, Busting Vegas was a fun read with some interesting revelations about how the gambling industries work. Lesson learned: do NOT mess with casino syndicates ...more
