Jennifer C. (jennifercz) reviewed Don't Call Me a Crook!: A Scotsman's Tale of World Travel, Whisky and Crime on + 2 more book reviews
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I LOVED this book!
The first page of the foreword grabs you and your attention is held all the
way to the end. It may be an autobiography but it reads like a novel. I
loved reading the parts that take place in Chicago as it really seems to
capture what it was like to live here in the 20's. Throughout the whole
book the publisher also adds footnotes to help explain the slang the author
uses and some of the historical events he references. The author, Bob
Moore, lived quite the life and yet he doesn't bore you with mundane facts.
I remember as a kid I read the choose your own adventure books, Bob Moore
basically is writing his choose your own adventure book with his choices
filled in for you. He shows you how quick wit and thinking on your feet,
and sometimes bending the rules to suit your needs, can take you where ever
you want to go.
If you like stories of gangsters, pirates and high adventure, then you have
to read this book.
The first page of the foreword grabs you and your attention is held all the
way to the end. It may be an autobiography but it reads like a novel. I
loved reading the parts that take place in Chicago as it really seems to
capture what it was like to live here in the 20's. Throughout the whole
book the publisher also adds footnotes to help explain the slang the author
uses and some of the historical events he references. The author, Bob
Moore, lived quite the life and yet he doesn't bore you with mundane facts.
I remember as a kid I read the choose your own adventure books, Bob Moore
basically is writing his choose your own adventure book with his choices
filled in for you. He shows you how quick wit and thinking on your feet,
and sometimes bending the rules to suit your needs, can take you where ever
you want to go.
If you like stories of gangsters, pirates and high adventure, then you have
to read this book.
