You need to sign in or sign up before continuing.
Take a photo of a barcode or cover
Molly's Game is a conflicting story. The beginning is painfully slow, with Molly telling us all about the early years of her life and the constant competition between her and her brothers, but things pick up dramatically when Molly starts helping out at her boss's poker games. Unfortunately the pace picks up a little too rapidly and the ending is horrendously rushed: the epilogue is only five pages but feels as though it could have easily been stretched to five or so chapters, with the scene introduced in the prologue finally being revisited with hardly enough time to tackle the fallout.
This book feels a bit like a rip off of The Great Gatsby, because Molly's character is very similar to that of Nick Carraway. Spending the first half of the book in the background, Molly ruminates on how inferior she feels, not seeming to realise that she lives a remarkably priviledged life even before her encounters with the rich and the famous (all things that Nick is terrible for). Meanwhile, she lists endless strings of names and occupations, name-dropping as frequently as possible to let us know exactly who played her game. It's ironic, because not only does the book itself reference Fitzgerald, but two of the participants of Molly's poker games are Leonardo DiCaprio - who played the titular character in the 2013 adaptation - but also Tobey Maguire, who played Nick Carraway himself.
I would have enjoyed Molly's Game more if the ending had been less rushed, but overall it was quite a lot of fun. It helps that it's a very short book, even though the font in the edition I read was painfully small - if it had been any longer I think I might have ended up doing some damage to my eyes.
This book feels a bit like a rip off of The Great Gatsby, because Molly's character is very similar to that of Nick Carraway. Spending the first half of the book in the background, Molly ruminates on how inferior she feels, not seeming to realise that she lives a remarkably priviledged life even before her encounters with the rich and the famous (all things that Nick is terrible for). Meanwhile, she lists endless strings of names and occupations, name-dropping as frequently as possible to let us know exactly who played her game. It's ironic, because not only does the book itself reference Fitzgerald, but two of the participants of Molly's poker games are Leonardo DiCaprio - who played the titular character in the 2013 adaptation - but also Tobey Maguire, who played Nick Carraway himself.
I would have enjoyed Molly's Game more if the ending had been less rushed, but overall it was quite a lot of fun. It helps that it's a very short book, even though the font in the edition I read was painfully small - if it had been any longer I think I might have ended up doing some damage to my eyes.
