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=Bringing Down the House = = =     

Summary


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The novel __Bringing Down the House__ is about a group of M.I.T. students who learn how to count cards and win big using that ability. At the beginning of the novel Kevin Lewis is showing Ben, the author, what it was like sneaking the money past security. Throughout the book Ben goes to different people to learn more about the story. Kevin Lewis is an M.I.T. student who knows two guys named Jason Fisher, a big muscular part Chinese and part Brazilian who he met at the gym, and Andre Martinez, who has many different races but his parents were from Singapore and Cuba, and was shorter and less muscular than Fisher but a standout genius at a genius school. On the third day his math professor moved him to graduate level classes, then one week in his sophomore year he just left. These two are constantly gone and always seem to have lots of money. Then they finally show him what they have been doing, card counting in Vegas. =====

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<span style="color: #eb2424; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"><span style="color: #30b04a; font-family: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace;"><span style="color: #f21818; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">   <span style="color: #f21818; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: #eb2424; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"><span style="color: #30b04a; font-family: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace;"><span style="color: #f21818; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span style="color: #ed2121; font-family: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace;"><span style="color: #ee2b2b; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #eb1919; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">So then they bring him to Micky Rosa, the man who runs the card counting team Fisher and Martinez are on. Then Micky invites Kevin to join the team because he is smart and has “the look”, Kevin accepted but first he had to take a test. Martinez then explains to him the different roles of the team, the spotters playing the minimum bet as they back count, and then they call in the Gorillas who come in, act like drunken rich kids, and play the way the spotter secretly tells them to. The big players do everything, carry the most cash and get known by casino personnel. He ends up passing all three parts of the exam and joins the team. He starts playing with them in Vegas. He wins a good bit, helps make the team lots of money, and tries out some different identities for each casino. He and his girlfriend go to his parent’s house for Thanksgiving and is trying to decide if he should tell one of them about his card counting group. He ends up not saying anything to any of them, his girlfriend included. Everything is going well till one morning he is playing, and it’s a very strong deck so he should win a lot, he ends up losing one-hundred thousand dollars in just two hands. Soon after he is playing and a hot cheerleader comes up and starts playing at the table too. So he tries to impress her by betting big, which works and he is able to get her phone number. =====

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<span style="color: #f21818; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #eb2424; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"><span style="color: #30b04a; font-family: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace;"><span style="color: #f21818; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">      <span style="color: #f21818; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #30b04a; font-family: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace;"><span style="color: #f21818; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span style="color: #ed2121; font-family: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace;"><span style="color: #dd2727; font-family: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace;"><span style="color: #ee2b2b; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #eb2424; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"><span style="color: #eb1919; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">Then he decides to dump his girlfriend, since she didn’t know about his card counting and since they were graduating soon and going to different places. He brings the team to a new casino he discovered in Illinois shaped to look like a giant boat. They continues playing in Vegas and at this new placing and a few other. They do really good but a few bad things happen later that I don’t want to spoil or anything so I’ll just leave it at that. But trust me, you will want to read it and find out yourself. =====

<span style="color: #30d554; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Theme
<span style="color: #f21818; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #25c01b; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span style="color: #1bb517; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span style="color: #30d554; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="color: #21b532; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #1fa83a; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">  <span style="color: #1db937; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I think the theme is to try news things that you wouldn’t normally due and have fun with it. Because he tried card-counting and he has become super rich, got a hot girl friend and is able to have free time from not working weekdays. So even if there is something that you think won't work   <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #111111; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';"><span style="color: #1db937; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">         <span style="color: #1db937; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span style="color: #30d554; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="color: #21b532; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #1fa83a; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #1bb517; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">what-so-ever try it, you could win big. The point of this novel is to tell you the story of some brave M.I.T. students who made it big time in Vegas. He also is kinda telling you to try new things, like Kevin did.

Opinion
<span style="color: #25c01b; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span style="color: #1db937; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> I liked the whole book. It kept me reading the whole time there wasn’t really a dull spot in it, if one starting to come something interesting would happen and fix it. The story was cool and it was fast-paced and had some action so that made it cool too. Like when they were in Hawaii and they were beating information out of people. Or when there was the huge riot when Mike Tyson bit off his opponents ear. Which is kinda weird, I think he got punched in the head too many times. Sadly though I have never tried card counting, if I ever go to Vegas I won’t even be able to because now they have electric dealers I think, but I can using if I play against my friends.

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