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Mountain City by Gregory Martin -- a biography about life in a very small Nevada town.
Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students who Took Vegas for Millions by Ben Mezrich
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93. The Old Patago ... ... the author created it, which often shines all kinds of new light on the book and the story and how it was created.
Like Bringing down the house, how the author was uncovered for doing almost no real research, making most of it up, and the research he did do he "combined" people to make more ... Just finished reading Ben Mezrich's Bringing Down The House. Here is my review ... rs
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50. My Life with the Saints by James Martin I started 1984 but I simply cannot get through that book... I since read The Pythagorean Solution and started Bringing Down the House - I'm a big fan of blackjack.
I still have Artemis Fowl, the Opal Deception, French Women Don't Get Fat, and Lip Lock coming up... talk about ... ... Treader (Narnia) by C. S. Lewis
Rating 4/5
52. The Silver Chair by C. S. Lewis
Rating 4/5
53. Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions by Ben Mezrich
Rating 5/5 Bringing Down the House: the inside story of six MIT students who took Vegas for millions by Ben Mezrich #93 mun:
Have you seen that there's a film coming out based on Mezrich's Bringing Down the House? The film is called "21" and stars Kevin Spacey, Kate Bosworth, Laurence Fishburne, and Jim Sturgess. I know I want to see it ;-) 37. Bringing Down the House by Ben Mezrich. 34: kben: I'm glad I brought Bringing Down the House with me from home then (I moved across the country). Did you see that I think they made a movie based on it? The trailer I saw that resembled what I know of the book starred Kevin Spacey.
35: Thanks for posting your review! I'm glad I'm ... I just finished Bringing Down the House and it's a fun ride and easy to read. I'm a huge fan of blackjack, but I think anyone will enjoy reading about how these kids took down Vegas.
Also, Running with Scissors is a good read, as are the Burroughs memoirs. I also want to check out his ... Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions by Ben Mezrich
272 pages
4/5 Stars
I've been wanting to read this book for at least four years, ever since I saw a documentary about the MIT team. This book was no kind of disappointment after the ... 7. History/Biography
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http://www.mcpl.lib.mo.us/readers/movies/
This is a great website for finding books that have been made ... ...
2. The Sex Lives of Cannibals by J. Maarten Troost
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4. Bringing Down the House by Ben Mezrich
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8. ... I realized I've also read:
GV Recreation; Leisure: Bringing Down the House
I'll add it to the list in my original post (and delete that category from my TBR list) when touchstones are working again. Right now they won't seem to reload when I edit a post, and it's driving me crazy!
edit: Y ... ... China Blues
DT History of Africa: The Caliph's House
E History of America: Fire and Ice
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HE Transportation and communications: Lords of the Line
HG Finance: The Wealthy Barber
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363 Other Social Problems & Services: Voices From Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich
364 Criminology: Bringing Down the House by Ben Mezrich
378 Higher Education: The Gatekeepers by Jacques Steinberg
398 Folklore: Lost Continents by L. Sprague De Camp
42 ... ... Problems & Services: Born on a Blue Day
363 Other Social Problems & Services: Voices from Chernobyl
364 Criminology: Bringing Down the House
372 Elementary education: The Myth of Ability
378 Higher Education: My Freshman Year
381 Internal Commerce: New York's 50 Best Bookstores ... ... library that fit this topic -- not five. But, in memory of Dad and Granny, who have both passed on, I will list my two:
Bringing Down the House about college students who count cards and win big at blackjack
That Old Ace in the Hole ... Incident
I must love those bad boys, because I have five more:
Eyeing the Flash about a carnival con artist
Bringing Down the House about cheating casinos
Con Game about Canada's prisons
Inappropriate Men
A Father's Affair The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
Bringing Down the House about a group of college kids that win millions in Las Vagas
Lost and Found about a Great-Race-type game show
Ordinary Heroes
The Know-it-All about a man who decides to read the entire Encyclopedia Brittanica and competes on Wh ... I only have three:
The Clown by Heinrich Boll
Stand and Deliver: inside Canadian comedy
Bringing Down the House (actually I only have two because this one is about cheating Vegas casinos, not about comedy)
Last fall I started The Girls who Went Away: The Hidden Story of Girls who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades before Roe v. Wade by Ann Fessler and didn't get to finish. Darn library book and the wait list to check it out again. I look forward to finishing this book this time ... ... yagoda
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