Canongate Books Ltd The Confidence Game: The Psychology of the Con and Why We Fall for It Every Time

Well written, concise, and a fastenating psychological profile of con men and their methods

Entrega rápida pero el libro es como leer una enciclopedia.

Loved it

I suppose if you're not very smart to begin with, being talked down like this by someone who has all the credentials to be "in the know" is a small annoyance compared to the wisdom being graciously imparted. But I found the 20 or 30 pages I managed to wade through - here and there in the text - uninteresting and unenlightening. I had read in the NYT about it - the author just happens to be on their staff - and was intrigued by the story of a smart young woman who met a smart young man with whom she felt she had everything in common but gradually smelled a rat, all of his stories of professional and social success were without backing, and when she scraped the surface his job and degrees turned out not to exist. Since he didn't take her money or get any material benefit out of the hoax I wanted to know just what it was he wanted, but the book told me no more than the review. I am interested in the idea of conning someone to get love and affection, which exists too, but this book left me, like the girl, in the lurch - conned, in fact.

Ottimo libro ma un po’ pesantino, la ricerca fatta comunque è da apprezzare