
Re: Ace on the River - Barry Greenstein (Review)
PoWda, don't you think you could add a category like "readable when you're lying in bed" or so?
Ace on the River is a wonderful book, an open-minded talk about playing poker, about aspects of what gambling means to society, about hands and maths (and about the moments when maths is less important) ...
But ALAS! as much as I love it and enjoy reading it at the end of the day - it's next to impossible to read it in bed, when I'm lying turned to the left or the right.
The book is too heavy, you have to keep it in both hands or lay it down flat in front of you, what means you can't make yourself comfortable while your occupied with it. Or at least you have to stay in the same position for a way too long time.
I don't think Barry Greenstein is a confused writer, on the contrary - it's really amusing to watch such an intelligent spirit at work ... But he or at least the guys from Last Knight Publishing ought to have thought of what they were doing to all the readers-in-bed when they produced such a bulky monster of a book - and even more: sadistically they inserted really great fotos.
Readability in bed: ZERO, 1 POINT AT MOST. Highest ranges in every single further respect. |