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Our
Favorite Books
Books about
Nevada? Sure! Why not! In fact there are some great books that will intrigue
and captivate you! These are
some of our favorite books. We found them interesting and informative. If you have read a book that we should add on our reading
list, please let us know!
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24/7: Living It Up and Doubling
Down in the New Las Vegas
by Andres
Martinez
Non-Fiction. Stop your search for a good
book about fun in Vegas. This book kicks hard core booty. This guy gets a
month in Vegas most people would only dream about - and he actually knows how
to write. His stories about being drunk on alcohol and blackjack at 6:00am are
great because it feels like you are really there, but you dont have to wake up
with a hangover. Its just great reading. I felt like I got to take my own
marathon Vegas vacation without ever leaving the house, and I cant wait to go
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Telling Lies and
Getting Paid: More Gambling Stories
by Michael Konik
Non-Fiction.
This is the most amazing book
ever written about poker. Michael Konik gives you a chance to have a real
taste of how it "feels" to be sitting on a poker table with all these big
poker players in the World Series of Poker. His honest psychological analysis
of the game gives this book a very original flavor. It's not about odds. It's
about people. The main story is preceded by a bunch of entertaining stories
about some of the most intriguing characters and casinos of the gambling
world. If you have any interest in the gambling world, it is a MUST read.
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The Man With the
$100,000 Breasts: And Other Gambling Stories
by Michael Konik
Non-Fiction.
Konik, the long-time gambling
columnist for Cigar Aficionado, ushers readers into the arena of risk and
reward, introducing them to the subculture of high rollers, hustlers,
professional card counters, horse handicappers, and poker champions. These
stories take you to the final table of the World Series of Poker where a $1
million prize awaits the winner, to a secret golf course reserved for the
biggest gamblers in Las Vegas, and to the inner sanctum of an international
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas : A Savage
Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
by Hunter S. Thompson,
Ralph Steadman (Illustrator)
Fiction. On assignment from a sports magazine to cover "the fabulous Mint
400"--a free-for-all biker's race in the heart of the Nevada desert--the
drug-a-delic duo stumbles through Vegas in hallucinatory hopes of finding the
American dream (two truck-stop waitresses tell them it's nearby, but can't
remember if it's on the right or the left). They of course never get the
story, but they do commit the only sins in Vegas: "burning the locals, abusing
the tourists, terrifying the help." For Thompson to remember and pen his
experiences with such clarity and wit is nothing short of a miracle; an
impressive feat no matter how one feels about the subject matter. A first-rate
sensibility twinger, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a pop-culture classic,
an icon of an era past, and a nugget of pure comedic genius. |
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