Busting Vegas; Ben Mezrich

He looked up from the chips, at the two pit bosses. Even though Semyon and Allie had just jumped their bets to sixty grand in one hand, the pit bosses weren't suspicious at all. They had bought Semyon's act completly. They would have never guessed that Semyon had actually manipulated the cards to deal his own teammate an ace. Christ, this really was to freaking easy. Semyon looked at Allie, and she matched his eyes. "Well, Dyevchik, are we ready for another hand?" Allie flashed her eyelashes at him. "Of course, Nikolai. The night is just getting started." Victor was right. They were going to bring the casinos to their knees.

This book tells the tale of the MIT whiz kid who brought the casinos to their knees. Upon stumbling across a sign that read "Make money. Play blackjack" Semyon was falling into a slump Massachusetts Institute of Technology or known as MIT. Staring at green computer screens everyday all day created a lack of boredom. Semyon is very sharp in his classes, but somehow this black jack sign that had the word money on it stopped his doing. Within a few weeks Semyon was practicing card couning, learning three techniques, and making it on the black jack team. Semyon went from staring at computer screens all day to playing blackjack in casinos like Monte Carlo. Not just playing blackjack, but winning huge. This books tells the secrets to how Semyon Dukach beat the blackjack system with a team. To me this book was one of the best ones i've ever read. This book is based on a real story which makes it really interesting. The book is confusing at first, but once you get it, you won't be able to put it down. I'd rank this book a 5/5.

What I'm Reading

Right now I'm reading "The Heroin Diaries, A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star" This book is about Nikki Sixx, the bassist/songwritter for the well known band, Motley Crue. This book tells you when, how, and why Nikki Sixx's life got turned up side down, when he went spiraling through his life on drugs, perticularly heroin. The book starts out by telling you about Nikki's life growing up. He tells you about when he was about 1 or 2 years old his father left him and his mother. And when his mother used to pone him off to his grandparents. He says that he basically lived with his grandparents his whole life. Once he was a teenager, he was really into the whole rebel rocker scene, and wanted to start a band of his own. He tells you about his adventures when he first got to hollywood, and Los Angles. It tells you what he did when he found a couple of guys to make a band with. And when they got there big shot at becoming famouse. He tells you about all of the good and the bad things that go on when your in a famouse rock band. But, most of the stuff you get into comes with being a rockstar, and most of it's no good. Nikki states that " Before the band, I only lived for music, now that it started, I only live for the drugs."

Brutal By: Kevin Weeks

Brutal is about the big time mobster Jim "whitey" Bulger, and his days being a mobster until he had to flee the country because of the FBI. This book goes into great detail about how he ran his crew, killed people, and took care of business. Through his years Whitey extorted millions of dollars, shook down pimps and drug dealers, and had dirty cops working for him. I recommend this book to everyone. On a scale one through five, I give it a five.