Welcome to my guide on Bringing Down the House. This compelling, nonfiction book is by Ben Mezrich. This guide will help you analyze and understand this book better. Bringing Down the House is a story about six M.I.T. students who counted cards, and decided to bring their talents to Vegas. Supersmart mathletes were recruited to join a secret blackjack organization called "The Club." This club was dedicated to counting cards and beating the casinos at their own game all around the nation. These elite mathletes infiltrated Las Vegas and took home millions. Bringing Down the House is a riveting book, and I hope you will enjoy it as much as I enjoyed reading the book. Welcome to my blog and please feel free to post any comments you like!
21: Bringing Down the House
This is what the book looked like after the movie came out.
Bringing Down the House
This is what the book originally looked like before the movie came out.
5 comments:
Allison, This book sounds so cool! I can't wait to see your blog!
Thank you Cory!
Allison--
Isn't this a true story or based on a true story? I remember reading about this at some point. Sounds interesting!
its a true story actually! non fiction!! =]
The detailed story actuiually begins in the middle here. Although there is alittle bit of background, the book doesn't tell you where the story began.
It tells you a little of the history, some of which you might gain from other books. There's some history between about 1962 and 1994 which is lightly gone over and probably isn't known to Kevin Fisher, and some mysteries remain, like who exactly gave the casinos the names of the all the members of the two MIT teams actiive around 1997 - the Amphibians and the Reptiles.
Some names and maybe places have been changed, and some events are composites, but this is far from a novel. It reads true to life. Some of this is so good, it must have been reconstructed, but it was reconstructed true to life.
It doesn't encouyrage the average person to try card counting, and even by 2002, the same things could not be done.
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