Stuey Ungar, the son of a Lower East Side bookie, grew up in a New York of the 1950s and '60s that was straight out of Damon Runyon. By his early teens, he had dropped out of high school and was spending most of his time in the city's under- ground card rooms. So prodigious was his talent for playing gin rummy that he soon found himself bankrolled by members of the Genovese crime family. After thrashing every top gin player on the East Coast, he was forced to broaden his horizons--traveling around the country to find opponents and also learning other card games, including poker.
At twenty-one, he moved to Las Vegas for good and quickly found mentors in poker legends such as Jack "Treetop" Straus, "Amarillo Slim" Preston, Doyle Brunson, and Chip Reese, who embraced the skinny five-foot-five kid with the Rimbaud aura. Soon enough, Ungar was playing in the biggest games at the famous Dunes poker room, learning the finer points of the game at incredible speed.
In 1980, competing in his second tournament ever and playing a game--no-limit Texas Hold'em--he'd just learned, he shocked the poker universe by winning the World Series of Poker. He would go on to win the event a record three times. In One of a Kind, authors Nolan Dalla and Peter Alson tell the startling tale of a man who managed to win millions of dollars and live the highest of high-roller lives without ever quite understanding or respecting the value of money. Whether tossing away his winnings at the racetrack or on a single roll of the dice, Ungar was notorious for gambling every single dollar in his pocket on a daily basis. The risk that he embodied in his gambling carried over to his personal life. He had no concept of night or day. He didn't own a wristwatch, didn't have a bank account, and for years had no home address or personal possessions. For all his gambling successes, at the end of his life he bounced between hotel rooms, casinos, and crack houses, dependent upon the kindness of friends and strangers.
This intimate, authorized biography illuminates the dark genius of poker's most charismatic and mysterious star, who could ruthlessly peer into and read other men's souls but seemed baffled and powerless when confronted with his own.
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我通常不太喜欢那种过于晦涩难懂的作品,但这本书确实有着一种难以言喻的魔力,让人欲罢不能。它的魅力在于那种恰到好处的“留白”。作者从不把话说满,很多关键的情节点、人物动机,都只是轻轻一带而过,剩下的,就交给了读者的想象力去填补。这使得这本书拥有了极高的“二次解读”价值,每一次重读,似乎都能发现新的线索和隐藏的意义。特别是书中那些看似随机出现的符号或重复出现的物件,我感觉它们都带有某种特定的象征意义,虽然我还没完全破解其中的奥秘,但这过程本身就非常有趣。相比于那些把所有故事都解释得清清楚楚的小说,这种“不完美”的完整性,反而让我感到更加过瘾。它挑战了我们作为读者习惯于被喂养信息的惯性。
评分说实话,这本书的文笔老辣得让人有些心惊。它不像某些畅销书那样追求流畅易懂,反而更像是一块未经雕琢的璞玉,棱角分明,需要读者自己去打磨才能看到其光芒。我个人非常喜欢作者那种近乎于诗意的语言组织方式,那些长句子的排比和错综复杂的从句结构,读起来有一种古典的韵律美,尽管内容本身可能非常现代和尖锐。书中对环境的描写,简直可以用“身临其境”来形容,那种潮湿的空气、斑驳的光影,仿佛触手可及,构建了一个极其真实又略带魔幻的背景。当然,坦白讲,对于追求快节奏阅读的读者来说,这本书的节奏可能会显得过于缓慢和沉重,中间有几段情节的推进极其缓慢,几乎是停滞的,但这恰恰是作者蓄力、为后面的高潮做铺垫的方式。我花了比平时多一倍的时间来阅读,不是因为看不懂,而是因为舍不得一口气读完,想把每一个精妙的词句都品味一番。
评分这本书简直是本奇书,我读完后感觉自己的世界观都被颠覆了。作者的叙事手法极其大胆,充满了对传统文学规范的挑战,读起来就像是在迷宫里穿行,每一步都充满了未知与惊喜。我特别欣赏他对人物内心世界的刻画,那种细腻入微的心理描写,让我仿佛能触摸到角色的灵魂深处。书中对某些社会现象的批判,也是一针见血,毫不留情,但又不是那种枯燥的说教,而是巧妙地融入到情节发展中。尤其是一些意象的运用,简直是神来之笔,让人回味无穷。虽然有些情节的跳跃性很大,初读时可能会有些费解,但当你沉下心来,反复琢磨时,就会发现其中蕴含的深意。这本书绝对不是那种让你轻松消遣的读物,它需要你全身心的投入,去解构、去感受、去重建你对故事的理解。看完之后,我花了很长时间才从那种强烈的阅读冲击中缓过来,那种震撼感持续了很久,至今想起来依然印象深刻。它强迫你去思考,去质疑,去用一种全新的视角看待我们习以为常的一切。
评分这本书的基调是低沉而压抑的,但这种压抑感并非来自于无谓的苦难堆砌,而是源自于对人性深处那种永恒的疏离感的深刻洞察。书中描绘的那些角色,即便身处人群之中,也像是活在各自的玻璃罩里,彼此呼喊却无法真正触及。作者的笔触冷峻而客观,不带过多的煽情色彩,却能不动声色地击中读者内心最柔软的地方。我尤其欣赏作者对“沉默”的刻画,很多时候,人物之间最关键的对话,是通过长时间的对视和未说出口的话语来完成的,那种张力,比任何激烈的争吵都来得震撼。读完这本书,我感到一种深刻的平静,这种平静不是因为故事有了完美的结局,而是因为作者帮你清晰地梳理了那些令人不安的情绪,让你明白,有些困惑和孤独,是人类共同的底色。它是一剂强效的“清醒剂”。
评分这本书最让我震撼的,是它对“时间”这个概念的解构。作者似乎完全抛弃了线性的叙事结构,故事的时间线是碎片化的、交织的,就像一张巨大的网,所有的事件都在某个特定的“点”上发生并相互关联。起初阅读时,我真的需要频繁地翻回头去确认人物的身份和他们所处的时间点,这无疑增加了阅读的难度。但是,一旦你适应了这种叙事节奏,就会发现这种多维度的叙事带来的信息量是惊人的,它让你能够同时从多个角度审视同一个事件的来龙去脉。而且,书中几位核心人物的命运,在不同的时间维度下呈现出截然不同的轨迹,那种宿命感和无力感交织在一起,让人叹息。这本书更像是一部哲学思辨录,披着小说的外衣,探讨着存在的意义和选择的重量。我推荐给那些不满足于传统叙事,渴望在阅读中进行智力探险的读者。
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