A Gambling Box

By Kate Pullinger

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1870003411
• ISBN13: 9781870003414
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Redstone Press
• Length: 1000 Pages
• Weight: 1.74 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Titillating, yet moralizing...

This book is unique, written for those who love everything about gambling. It is a magnificent, lavish, gift for someone you know who loves gambling. The 144 page hardbound book is a composite of gambling information from all over the world including excerpts from famous gambling literary references. Kate Pullinger's first person account of Las Vegas is from the woman's point of view (feminist without being a feminist). Men and women, both, MUST read Kate Pullinger's passage detailing the thoughts and feelings of the five women she interviewed in Las Vegas casinos. Quote: "All the women I meet in Las Vegas agree on one thing: they all say 'Vegas is the only place where I feel I can go by myself.'... A place where women can stay out all night without worrying about their personal safety..."Kate Pullinger's "A Gambling Box" (1993) was a gift from my wife. I am a gambling enthusiast. Mostly I like to play. But I also love to read about GAMBLING. I scored four "YES" answers o

Titillating, yet moralizing... (PART 2)

Continued---I scored four "Yes" answers on the Gambler's Anonymous COMPULSIVE GAMBLING 20 Questions list at the end of the book. I enjoyed every word, from The Gambler's Lament (from Rig Veda, ancient Sanskrit text) to Dostoyevsky/Sigmund Freud to Meyer Lansky to Kate Pullinger. Do NOT buy it... unless you love gambling. I loved it