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Living on the Lottery (Paperback)

by Hunter Davies (Author)

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Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: Time Warner Paperbacks; New edition edition (7 Aug 1997)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0751519154
ISBN-13: 978-0751519150
Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 10.8 x 3.2 cm

Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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Focusing on the people involved in ten of the biggest wins, this book follows the lives of winners of the National Lottery over their first year as millionaires, exploring how they come to terms with their change in lifestyle. It also looks at those who make a living from the lottery - Camelot, Oflot and Lenny Lottery - and the 30 million people who participate each week.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A good entertaining but sobering read, 9 Jan 2003

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I thoughly enjoyed this book . It was enteraining about the characters who had won the national lottery in the first couple of years it was set up. There were some sobering stories about the winners who tryed to do everything not to let any relatives & friends know about their good fortune. Some of these efforts were hilarious.
I recommend this book for a train or plane journey, I promise you will not feel envious about the real people portrayed very well by Hunter Davis.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Hunter Davies Can Even Make the Lottery Boring, 18 Aug 2004

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The author, long satirized by Private Eye as "Oonter Davies", presumably a reference to his preferred blunt Northern British image (while living in or around Hampstead, of course), was given permission to make this trawl through mid-1990's lottery winners.

The fact is that --as any statistician would point out-- the sample is not "scientific". Camelot's own surveys seem to show that virtually all big winners are glad they won (as I would be if I won; unfortunately, so far �88 has been my biggest payoff), yet this book is rather downbeat, very Observer-type depressed.

The Lottery winners shown are a fairly uncultured, sad lot and none give anything much from their winnings to help others, e.g. to charity; there again, the crudely biased political campaigning of Oxfam and so many other charities makes a lot of people feel bad about giving money to a load of politically-correct types for their pet causes (and salaries). One remembers in the 1980's Oxfam and other charities campaigning against the poverty said to have been caused "by apartheid" when the rest of Africa was much more corrupt, violent and poverty-stricken-- and with not a Boer in sight.

It would be nice to have a more up-to-date version of this book, preferably written by someone operating on a full battery pack.

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