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Slot machines account for more casino revenue than all table games combined, yet little has been written about them. Unlike poker, blackjack, and craps, slots have no history, heroes, strategy, or books about legends or showdowns or turning the tables on the casinos.<\/p>\n

That has changed with\u00a0Cherry\u00a0Picker<\/i>, which reveals a unique perspective in gambling writing: The author is an English professor, literature scholar, and lifelong unapologetic losing slot player.<\/p>\n

Far from hiding his fondness for the one-armed bandits, author Mark Shechner extols the passion he shares with throngs of fellow slot heads, debunks the derision of journalists, do-gooders, and gambling pundits, and rejoices in the almost mystical attraction of one of the world’s most popular entertainment practices.<\/p>\n

Short on math and long on mindset, Cherry\u00a0Picker<\/i> is an ode to blazing sev\u00adens, double diamonds, and wild cherries. But it\u2019s as much a meditation on cars, music, deserts, Buddhism, hallucinogens, the natural versus the synthetic, Vegas as Oz, flat tires, and noodle bars as jackpots.<\/p>\n

Click to see the Cherry Picker<\/u><\/strong><\/a> Table of Contents and read an excerpt.<\/p>\n

About The Author<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
MARK SHECHNER<\/strong> was a longtime English professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo, a noted scholar of James Joyce and Jewish literature, and an inveterate scholar of American Literature. He passed away in 2015.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The author, who held a Ph.D. in literature and taught English and writing at the university level for 42 years, was also an unredeemed and unapologetic slot player; Cherry Picker<\/em> is the confessions of a lifetime slot loser.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"product_cat":[30,1918,378],"product_tag":[149,160,155,217,195,554],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/944"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=944"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}