Catch Me if You Can

Although I knew the ghostwriter, Stan Redding, as far back as the 1970s and in the 1980s when this shot to the top of the bestseller lists, I never sat down to read it until 2008. When I was done, I couldn't understand the fuss. I've had to chalk it up to the tenor of the times, in which any sort of......more

Just wanna mention a fun little story about Frank Abagnale. After he was caught by the Feds and began working for them undercover, he posed as a social worker in Houston, Texas. My mom’s family, who lived in Houston, fostered many kids, so Frank became aquatinted with them through his “social work”.......more

Q: One of the New York cops who’d worked hardest to catch me read the report and snorted. “This head doctor’s gotta be kiddin‘ us,” he scoffed. “This phony rips off several hundred banks, hustles half the hotels in the world for everything but the sheets, screws every airline in the skies, including......more

I learned early that class is universally admired. Almost any fault, sin or crime is considered more leniently if there's a touch of class involved. Charming and riotously entertaining, captivating and devilishly debonair. Crime has no business being this fun. 5 stars.......more

This is honestly the best book I have read in a long time. It's one of the few that I couldn't put down and had to know what was going to happen next. I know I had already seen the movie, but the book was better. I was disappointed to find out that the movie was actually a watered-down version of th......more