Genre: Nonfiction—Memoir
Completed: 3 April 2018
Summary & Review:
After retiring from competitive skiing, Molly Bloom decides to postpone law school and take a gap-year in LA. After some small time waitressing jobs, she becomes the personal assistant to “Reardon Green” who runs a big-time poker game with the rich and famous in LA. After apprenticing with Reardon for a few years, Molly takes on running high-stakes poker in LA and NYC alone. Eventually her empire comes crashing down as she is indicted by the FBI in a large organized-crime round-up.
Paige had gone and seen this movie when it was in theaters and then was so fascinated by the story that she bought and read the book. After the movie came out on iTunes I watched it with her, liked and the movie, and decided to read the book, too. Movie Molly was a fairly sympathetic creature who was portrayed as having an unassailable standard of honor. Book Molly wasn’t so heroic, in my opinion. Not even close.
A big part of the movie is the fact that Molly wouldn’t name names as to who played in her games, but this book is basically just a long form US Weekly. She gossips about any- and everyone she ever came into contact with during her games. Then she drones on about designer bags and dresses and fancy cars and all the materialistic trappings of her new life. Maybe some people find this is exciting by proxy, but to me it came off as an insecure attempt to show the world how important she once was. Greed, entitlement, materialism, shallowness, and a pretty large dose of mental instability are what fill the pages of this book.
Rating: 2.5
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