repeat until rich
Last modified: Saturday, 6. February 2010 - 3:57 pm
US: Available from Penguin Press
Canada: Available from Penguin Press
UK: Available from Ebury
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“A literate and swaggering heist caper of the sort that Jonathan Lethem and Quentin Tarantino might fry up together from an old Elmore Leonard recipe… Mr. Axelrad’s book stands out from earlier ones because he’s a real writer — a muscular, cynical and observant one.”
- Dwight Garner, The New York Times
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“Dark, funny, at times painfully honest.”
- Charles McGrath, The New York Times
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“This is a beautifully written memoir… one of the all-time great real-life adventure stories in print… [T]old with disarming honesty, at times sarcastic, at times cynical, but always truthful… No one has ever told the story of the professional card counter quite like this. For all its craziness, meaningless greed, and wasted energy, it’s strangely exhilarating. If he continues to gamble with his words, instead of with his wallet, Josh Axelrad will continue to beat the odds.”
- Arnold Snyder, author of Blackbelt in Blackjack, The Big Book of Blackjack, The Poker Tournament Formula, and one of the seven original inductees into the Blackjack Hall of Fame
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“[An] excellent, tersely written memoir.”
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“‘Repeat Until Rich’ is a phantasmically told first-person account… Unlikely triumph becomes unforeseeable tragedy in fewer than 300 pages. It’s a dark, yet amusing, tale of personal doom.”
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“This brilliantly written, exciting – sometimes terrifying – memoir is superb.”
- The Sun (UK)
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“Sweet and brutal… It’s well written, brutally honest, and a great read.”
- Bryce Carlson, author of Blackjack for Blood and longtime professional player
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“A real-life Elmore Leonard caper.”
- Booklist
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“[Written] with wit and more than a dash of psychological horror… one of the best tales of addiction—and the gambling world—that I’ve ever read.”
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“[H]e’s a natural storyteller, and he lived through a story worth telling.”
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“Repeat Until Rich starts as an easy jaunt, a picaresque journey through casino America, as Axelrad and his colleagues outfox all the dealers and floormen and pit bosses who stand in the way of their wild winning spree. The story is so absorbing and funny that at first you won’t even notice you’re being sucked into hell.”
- George Dawes Green, author of Ravens
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“A killer story, compellingly told.”
- Sara Barron, author of People Are Unappealing
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“Any sane person would think Axelrad’s plan to beat Las Vegas at its own hustle was a first class ticket to being another toothless dreamer sleeping in cars. But he learns to count cards, falls in with a brilliant crew of genius malcontents with a system, beats the odds and scores seven-hundred grand, not to mention one hell of a story.”
- Dan Kennedy, author of Rock On
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