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The King of Cards

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Doesn't happen often, this kind of memoir, done with the just the right ratio of love and distance. This is an extended coming-of-age tale about the love and friendship of two extrordinary young men, only one of whom survives the experience. Read it and weep. Read it and smile.

"The King of Cards" is one of those books that takes you back to a place where you wish you could have grown up and had friends like the characters in the book.You get to know the characters. You cheer for them, laugh and cry with them, and even get angry at them. These characters are college kids who are out to make a fortune by printing id cards for colleges. Ther run into the problems of not having the funds for proper tools to make the id's. None of them know how to run a business, or have the proper experience in printing and marketing.What I like about Mr. Ward's book is that one minute things are going great for the kids. Another, they run into all sorts of trouble such as machine malfuctioning, run-ins with the law and having to deal with parents that are more like chidren than adults.If you want to read a book that is ful of adventure, read "The King of Cards".

Robert Ward's The King of Cards is, for the most part, witty and charming in ways that few other modern books are. While Ward's attempt at a emotional ending backfires, and the main character's wordy ramblings on the events that shaped his persona are unimpressive, the book is consistantly funny and the characters are well drawn. This book is a nice bit of light humor.