(I'm talking about you, Howie Carr.) The authors seem enamored of their subject's casual violence. AES is a common ailment of books in this genre. Since the subject is either a murderer, a con-man, a thugs, and/or a thief, it is quite possible the subject is also a liar out to impress the author, interested prosecutorial figures, and other suckers who read the book. This is where the author overlooks certain warning signs about his main subject. Would be excellent, except that it suffers from AES A-hole Encouragement Syndrome. If you like mob books or books then give this a read!įast reading and entertaining book on organized crime in the Las Vegas casino system. I'm gonna rewatch Scorsese's Casino because I'm sure I'll like it more as an adult and I know for a fact that I get the messiness I was craving from the book.Sharon Stone plays Geri! If you want a well written story on the history of the mob in Las Vegas then Casino is a good book which is why I'm giving it 3 stars.But I was promised a messy love triangle that led to multiple murders and that's not what I got. Its almost as if Nicholas Pileggi wrote the whole book and then his publisher was like How much time the book spend on this affair? So given the importance this love triangle had on the fall of mob involvement in Las Vegas The mob was pissed that this affair was messing with their money and bodies started dropping. Geri & Tony had a years long affair and they in all likely hood blew up Lefty in his car.

The story of Lefty Rosenthal, his wife Geri and his business partner Tony Spilotro is an explosive(that's a pun) tale. It felt like the author Mitch Pileggi was more interested in the skim so that's what he focused on but come on.I came here for the sex and murder! So maybe I'll give it a rewatch now that I've read the book.Ĭasino is pitched as being an action packed tale of love death and betrayal.but Nope!Ĭasino actually spends the majority of its time explaining how the mob and our main character(because despite being a real person Lefty Rosenthal is a character) skim money from Vegas casinos. I don't think I liked it that much but I was only 15 and I watched it right after I watched Goodfellas(One of my ALL TIME FAVES).

Also I remember the men wearing a lot of terrible loud suits. The only thing I remember is Robert DeNiro's characters car explodes. (Las Vegas)Ī million years ago I watched the movie Casino because its a Martin Scorsese movie and I've seen all his movies.īut I don't really remember it.

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