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The Virgin Kiss and Other Adventures | 
 enlarge | Author: Frank Scoblete
Publisher: Research Services Unlimited
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 40678
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 303
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 0.8
ISBN: 0912177179
Dewey Decimal Number: 920
EAN: 9780912177175
ASIN: 0912177179
Publication Date: April 1, 2008
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Product Description
Experience the dazzling, amazing, exciting and wonderful adventures of best-selling author Frank Scoblete. Learn how he beat the casinos for 20 years and was even banned from many of them for his winning expertise. Discover how he astral traveled in time and to other worlds bringing back proof of these mind-bending, sometimes terrifying adventures. Enjoy how he creatively handled some of the most wildly eccentric students imaginable during his teaching career, including Gerry the Rat Boy, Wrong Way McKay, Mel Odious, and the Disgusting Beast. Experience how he learned the laborer's ropes as a teenager in a dangerous Manhattan housing project in New York City. Go into the studio as he partakes in a disastrous and very painful television interview. Suffer with him as he realizes what caused his weight gain and how he bravely fought against it for a full 24 hours. Laugh when he decides to go after sex for the first time as a teenager. Marvel at his first kiss, his Virgin Kiss, which was not like anybody s first kiss ever. This is a hilariously funny but, at times, scary, nail-biting and thoroughly riveting and enjoyable read about someone whose life is indeed stranger and more exciting than fiction.
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A Peek Behind the Curtain May 26, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The personal anecdotes in Frank's gambling books make them come alive and set them apart from other gambling books. Readers get a sense of who the man is who wrote the books.
Now the Wizard throws the curtain wide open and readers get to know the stories that only friends and family have heard. I am fortunate to have known Frank for about 10 years now and have heard some of these stories. Now you can learn about the decline of Tunica, astral traveling, Frank's childhood and his other careers too.
In the section on his teaching career, Frank tells what I think might be his first advantage-play move. He formed a cross-country team out of mostly non-runners, some of whom would even stop for a smoke during a race. The kids got their varsity letters, he got the coaching stipend, and the school got a cross country team, albeit one that never won a match.
Tunica at it's Best (Worst!) May 2, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
As a frequent traveler to Tunica Mississippi, I found Scoblete's discription of his time there to be both halirious and informative. Once in a while you can have a bad or funny experience there, but he seems to have had them all in one trip. I think his was a trip I would have enjoyed, after we were back home, safe in Missouri.
His other events in his wild life are well told, and anyone with an intrest in teaching, or writing, or gambling, or in astral travel will enjoy this book, and I highly recomend it to all.
Wonderful Book April 30, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Wonderful Book
Frank Scoblete's "The Virgin Kiss" does what so many books can't do, it grabs you from the very first paragraph and doesn't let go until you finish the last sentence. If you are looking for belly laughs, sprinkled with first love, innocence, sexuality, and amazing adventures this book is impossible to put down. Scoblete has written a great book for us to truly enjoy.
A must read April 21, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
What can I say that hasn't been said already?
This is a terrific book. You run the gamut when you read it. The book is surreal, humorous, outrageous, side-splitting, frightening, uproarious and thoroughly entertaining.
I just bought a whole bunch to send to my family and friends. I think anyone would find this book completely enjoyable.
Chilling and Funny! April 20, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
A chilling, funny, yet serious journey through the life of "Scobe". From his teenage years, to his years as a teacher, through his latter adventures in the casinos and on television. There's something for everyone in here. Prepare to laugh out loud and get chills down your spine!
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