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The Wizard of Odds: How Jack Molinas Almost Destroyed the Game of Basketball

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Title: The Wizard of Odds: How Jack Molinas Almost Destroyed the Game of Basketball
by Charley Rosen
ISBN: 1-58322-562-5
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date: January, 2003
Format: Paperback
Volumes: 1
List Price(USD): $17.95
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Average Customer Rating: 3 (5 reviews)

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Rating: 2
Summary: BORING
Comment: This is probly the most boring book I have ever read. I have read alot of basketball books and by far this is one of the worst. It seemed interesting so I bought it. Then it started out all right but by page 100 I could not keep reading it I just lost interest. I would not reccomend this book.

Rating: 5
Summary: A terrific read.
Comment: Once I started this book, I could not put it down. Jack was a person with a great deal of athletic and intellectual talent. However, I thought he blurred the line between life and the game of basketball.

I was never interested in sports when I was growing up, but this book has certainly sparked my interest. It was a mind opening experience.

How did I come to read this book, considering my lack of interest in sports? I heard it reviewed on Nat'l. Public Radio. When I heard the name Jack Molinas, I remembered an athletically inclined boy that attended PS 33 and PS 79 with me. My memories of him in school were good so I think of his life as he felt compelled to live it as a tragedy.

Rating: 2
Summary: fiction disguised as fact
Comment: This book is a work of fiction.The list of errorsis too great to warrant a non-fiction label.The author makes the case that Molinas is a habitual liar.So,why would Rosen print Molinas comments in interviews other sports writers had with him without corroboration.There is no doubt that Molinas was an unusual character with huge talents who preferred to break all the rules,making him a tragic figure.It is hard to enjoy this read,because there is no way to discern truth from fantasy.I think Molinas had the last laugh with his creative tales to writers.He figured they would accept his stories as the gospel...Bob Reiss

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