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The Noble Hustle
- Poker, Beef Jerky, and Death
- Narrado por: Colson Whitehead
- Duración: 6 h y 24 m
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Resumen del Editor
The Noble Hustle is Pulitzer finalist Colson Whitehead’s hilarious memoir of his search for meaning at high stakes poker tables, which the author describes as “Eat, Pray, Love for depressed shut-ins.”
On one level, The Noble Hustle is a familiar species of participatory journalism—a longtime neighborhood poker player, Whitehead was given a $10,000 stake and an assignment from the online online magazine Grantland to see how far he could get in the World Series of Poker.
But since it stems from the astonishing mind of Colson Whitehead (MacArthur Award-endorsed!), the book is a brilliant, hilarious, weirdly profound, and ultimately moving portrayal of—yes, it sounds overblown and ridiculous, but really!—the human condition.
After weeks of preparation that included repeated bus trips to glamorous Atlantic City, and hiring a personal trainer to toughen him up for sitting at twelve hours a stretch, the author journeyed to the gaudy wonderland that is Las Vegas—the world’s greatest “Leisure Industrial Complex”—to try his luck in the multi-million dollar tournament. Hobbled by his mediocre playing skills and a lifelong condition known as “anhedonia” (the inability to experience pleasure) Whitehead did not—spoiler alert!—win tens of millions of dollars.
But he did chronicle his progress, both literal and existential, in this unbelievably funny, uncannily accurate social satire whose main target is the author himself.
Whether you’ve been playing cards your whole life, or have never picked up a hand, you’re sure to agree that this book contains some of the best writing about beef jerky ever put to paper.
Reseñas de la Crítica
"Whitehead serves up an engrossing mix of casual yet astute reportage and hang-dog philosophizing, showing us that, for all of poker’s intricate calculations and shrewd stratagems, everything still hangs on the turn of a card." - Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)
"As a novelist of considerable range, Whitehead consistently writes about more than he's ostensibly writing about...here writing a poker book that should strike a responsive literary chord with some who know nothing about the game...Engaging in its color and character." -Kirkus Reviews
"Colloquial, with many personal digressions and heavy on pop-culture references, it reads like a memoir crossed with a literary guide to the often bizarre world of casino-poker tournaments..."-The Wall Street Journal
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Lila Mae Watson - the first black female inspector in the world's tallest city - has the highest performance rating of anyone in the Department of Elevator Inspectors. This upsets her superiors, because Lila is an Intuitionist: she inspects elevators simply by the feelings she gets riding in them. When a brand new elevator crashes, Lila becomes caught in the conflict between her Intuitionist methods and the beliefs of the power-holding Empiricists.
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Fires on all cylinders; GREAT ! ! !
- De Robert en 08-24-12
De: Colson Whitehead
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Harlem Shuffle
- A Novel
- De: Colson Whitehead
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
- Duración: 10 h y 35 m
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To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Ray Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably priced furniture, making a decent life for himself and his family. He and his wife Elizabeth are expecting their second child, and if her parents on Striver's Row don't approve of him or their cramped apartment across from the subway tracks, it's still home. Few people know he descends from a line of uptown hoods and crooks, and that his façade of normalcy has more than a few cracks in it. Cracks that are getting bigger all the time.
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What a rare pleasure
- De Lisa Braden en 09-27-21
De: Colson Whitehead
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The Nickel Boys (Winner 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
- A Novel
- De: Colson Whitehead
- Narrado por: JD Jackson, Colson Whitehead
- Duración: 6 h y 46 m
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When Elwood Curtis, a black boy growing up in 1960s Tallahassee, is unfairly sentenced to a juvenile reformatory called the Nickel Academy, he finds himself trapped in a grotesque chamber of horrors. Elwood’s only salvation is his friendship with fellow “delinquent” Turner, which deepens despite Turner’s conviction that Elwood is hopelessly naive, that the world is crooked, and that the only way to survive is to scheme and avoid trouble.
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Who spoke for the black boys?
- De Darwin8u en 02-06-20
De: Colson Whitehead
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The Colossus of New York
- A City in Thirteen Parts
- De: Colson Whitehead
- Narrado por: Colson Whitehead
- Duración: 3 h y 11 m
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New York Times best-selling author and New York native Colson Whitehead composes a breathtaking tribute to his hometown. Whitehead captures the very essence of New York, infusing his reflections with the energy that permeates the city.
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Just not entertaining
- De Rebecca en 09-07-09
De: Colson Whitehead
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Zone One
- A Novel
- De: Colson Whitehead
- Narrado por: Beresford Bennett
- Duración: 9 h y 57 m
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In this wry take on the post-apocalyptic horror novel, a pandemic has devastated the planet. The plague has sorted humanity into two types: the uninfected and the infected, the living and the living dead. Now the plague is receding, and Americans are busy rebuilding civilization under orders from the provisional government based in Buffalo. Their top mission: the resettlement of Manhattan.
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Tomorrow needs a marketing rollout.
- De Annie en 01-06-12
De: Colson Whitehead
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Sag Harbor
- A Novel
- De: Colson Whitehead
- Narrado por: Mirron Willis
- Duración: 11 h y 17 m
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The year is 1985. Benji Cooper is one of the only black students at an elite prep school in Manhattan. He spends his falls and winters going to roller-disco bar mitzvahs, playing too much Dungeons and Dragons, and trying to catch glimpses of nudity on late-night cable TV. After a tragic mishap on his first day of high school, when Benji reveals his deep enthusiasm for the horror movie magazine Fangoria, his social doom is sealed for the next four years.
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- De Nicole en 07-11-10
De: Colson Whitehead
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The Intuitionist
- De: Colson Whitehead
- Narrado por: Peter Jay Fernandez
- Duración: 9 h y 41 m
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Lila Mae Watson - the first black female inspector in the world's tallest city - has the highest performance rating of anyone in the Department of Elevator Inspectors. This upsets her superiors, because Lila is an Intuitionist: she inspects elevators simply by the feelings she gets riding in them. When a brand new elevator crashes, Lila becomes caught in the conflict between her Intuitionist methods and the beliefs of the power-holding Empiricists.
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- De Robert en 08-24-12
De: Colson Whitehead
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Harlem Shuffle
- A Novel
- De: Colson Whitehead
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
- Duración: 10 h y 35 m
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To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Ray Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably priced furniture, making a decent life for himself and his family. He and his wife Elizabeth are expecting their second child, and if her parents on Striver's Row don't approve of him or their cramped apartment across from the subway tracks, it's still home. Few people know he descends from a line of uptown hoods and crooks, and that his façade of normalcy has more than a few cracks in it. Cracks that are getting bigger all the time.
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What a rare pleasure
- De Lisa Braden en 09-27-21
De: Colson Whitehead
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The Nickel Boys (Winner 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
- A Novel
- De: Colson Whitehead
- Narrado por: JD Jackson, Colson Whitehead
- Duración: 6 h y 46 m
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When Elwood Curtis, a black boy growing up in 1960s Tallahassee, is unfairly sentenced to a juvenile reformatory called the Nickel Academy, he finds himself trapped in a grotesque chamber of horrors. Elwood’s only salvation is his friendship with fellow “delinquent” Turner, which deepens despite Turner’s conviction that Elwood is hopelessly naive, that the world is crooked, and that the only way to survive is to scheme and avoid trouble.
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Who spoke for the black boys?
- De Darwin8u en 02-06-20
De: Colson Whitehead
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John Henry Days
- De: Colson Whitehead
- Narrado por: Peter Jay Fernandez
- Duración: 17 h y 41 m
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J. Sutter is a bonafide junketeer - a freelance writer, travelling from city to city, hungry for free meals and the discarded sales receipts of others to claim on his expense account. Travelling into the backwoods of West Virginia to write a piece on the unveiling of the new John Henry postage stamp and the ensuing John Henry Days festival, J. continues his nearly record-setting, three-month junket binge.
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Well-crafted story
- De Lora S. en 05-10-20
De: Colson Whitehead
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Apex Hides the Hurt
- De: Colson Whitehead
- Narrado por: Peter J. Fernandez
- Duración: 5 h y 47 m
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A small Midwestern town is having an identity crisis: should they have a new techno-savvy name or a name honoring the freedmen who founded the town? Or is the current name just fine? They call in a professional naming consultant, famous for naming Apex bandages, guaranteed to match any skin color. But even he is losing his faith in monikers.
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Dull, dull, DULL!
- De Barbara en 09-18-07
De: Colson Whitehead
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The Underground Railroad (Television Tie-in)
- A Novel
- De: Colson Whitehead
- Narrado por: Bahni Turpin
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Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood—where even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Matters do not go as planned—Cora kills a young white boy who tries to capture her. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted.
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Stupendous book, hard to follow in audio
- De JQR en 12-01-16
De: Colson Whitehead
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Night of Camp David
- De: Fletcher Knebel
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
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Senator Jim MacVeagh is proud to serve his country - and his president, Mark Hollenbach, who has a near-spotless reputation as the vibrant, charismatic leader of MacVeagh’s party and the nation. When Hollenbach begins taking MacVeagh into his confidence, the young senator knows his star is on the rise. But then Hollenbach starts summoning MacVeagh in the middle of the night to Camp David. There, the president sits in the dark and rants about his enemies, unfurling insane theories about all the people he says are conspiring against him.
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Ultimately Unsatisfying
- De TiffanyD en 11-27-18
De: Fletcher Knebel
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Great Circle
- A Novel
- De: Maggie Shipstead
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell, Alex McKenna
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After being rescued as infants from a sinking ocean liner in 1914, Marian and Jamie Graves are raised by their dissolute uncle in Missoula, Montana. There—after encountering a pair of barnstorming pilots passing through town in beat-up biplanes—Marian commences her lifelong love affair with flight. At fourteen she drops out of school and finds an unexpected and dangerous patron in a wealthy bootlegger who provides a plane and subsidizes her lessons, an arrangement that will haunt her for the rest of her life, even as it allows her to fulfill her destiny: circumnavigating the globe.
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So glad I was drawn to this book.
- De timbo en 05-23-21
De: Maggie Shipstead
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The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece
- A Novel
- De: Tom Hanks
- Narrado por: Tom Hanks, Peter Gerety, Natalie Morales, y otros
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From the legendary actor and best-selling author: a novel about the making of a star-studded, multimillion-dollar superhero action film...and the humble comic books that inspired it. Funny, touching, and wonderfully thought-provoking, while also capturing the changes in America and American culture since World War II.
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I could never stay married to an actor,
- De PattyQB en 05-11-23
De: Tom Hanks
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Noble Hustle
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- Chris Dixon
- 08-19-21
Fun read.
Nice to read a poker book from an actual writer. Review requires fifteen words minimum.
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- Gudrun
- 02-07-15
I would have liked more detail
Very easy to listen to, but I thought that it would have gone into more detail. I liked his perspective, which made me give this book four stars.
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- Kindle Customer
- 07-13-21
Fun Story For Poker Lovers
Very interesting tale of playing in the World Series of Poker. I saw the author interviewed on 60 Minutes. Can't wait to get into his other books.
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- Debra B
- 06-05-14
Colson Whitehead, note-taker of our culture
First a word about the narration. Definitely listen to the preview first, because Whitehead has a distinctive way of talking, and it might not be for you. When I first listened to him, I thought it might not be for me, either, but, funny thing, his voice grew on me, and I started to like it. I've read two other books by Whitehead, and I liked them both for the deft way he mixes cultural observations with his stories, and his fresh, clear writing. He is wry, but not overbearing about it - at least that's how it comes across to me. I really liked Zone One. For me, all his books (including The Noble Hustle) come down to one thing - Our Culture. It's worth reading The Noble Hustle just to hear him explain the different hands in poker. A pair of queens (I think it was) would be like a pair of SUV's in your neighbor's driveway, whereas your hand with only one queen is like having only one SUV in your driveway. The person with the better stuff wins. He talks a lot about his anhedonia, his feeling of being dead inside, but he has such a lock on humor and observations that he manages to be good company. It's like sitting down him next to him at casino bar, and staying longer than you'd thought, just to hear him talk.
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- Coffee Diva
- 06-07-18
Good look at Poker
Thhis is a well-written book about contemporary poker tournaments. the author gives us a detailed view of his own experience including ups and downs and self-doubt as he is given an assignment to write about playing in the main event at the World Series of Poker. I enjoyed all of it
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- Amazon Customer
- 06-18-21
Great story for a recreational poker player
This story was more than I expected.
I figured it would be a basic rundown of a trip to the strip to play in pokers biggest game. I found that (as a poker player) every situation was relatable and could feel the emotions like they were my own complete with the "dead inside" feeling. Even the mention of beef jerky was so completely spot on.
If you like poker or even remotely understand the game, it's a great journey.
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- Paul Lewis
- 05-31-14
If You're "Into Poker", Skip This Book
Would you try another book from Colson Whitehead and/or Colson Whitehead?
Doubtful.
What could Colson Whitehead have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?
Nothing and everything. I'm an experienced poker player who has never played in the WSOP - and found this book boring. Whitehead doesn't break any new ground at all -- McManus's Positively Fifth Street is a far superior description of what it's like for an amateur to play in the Main Event.
Did the narration match the pace of the story?
Yes.
Did The Noble Hustle inspire you to do anything?
No.
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- Bill at Torg Stories
- 10-22-14
Sad Funny Book Teaches You About Cards, Ping!
The Slate Culture Gabfest podcast pointed me Whitehead's way alluding to an essay he wrote about New York. Whitehead tells us he's bummed out, (with examples) and I believe him. He's a funny guy, and I liked hearing about his ambitious prep to play in a World Series of Poker Event. When you go on a journey like that, you make some unexpected buds. He does and I really like "Coach." Whitehead especially wins me over with his references to "the kid." He also comes up with an innovative structure (cheating?) to get a book's worth of material out his adventure. I came around to liking his reading of his own work. I recommend!
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- Edith Barles-Frawley
- 08-25-21
The Anhedonian Manifesto
I knew virtually nothing about the world of poker before this listen, but I sure do now. As a huge admirer of Whitehead's writing, I am working my way backwards from his more recent books. I enjoyed his dark humor and self-effacing wit along with the lyrical, technical lingo of professional card sharks and Whitehead's scathing cultural observations.
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- STAN LIEBER
- 03-28-21
Thoroughly Enjoyable
Maybe not as socially important as his other works, but great reading nonetheless. I have never read anyone who writes in the style that he does.
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