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Lucky Me

by Rich Paul, 2023 · 272 pages

This reads like a fast, confident conversation with someone who has survived a lot and is sure of what he learned from it. The voice is plainspoken and streetwise, moving briskly from hard childhood scenes to the business hustle that built his career, with the energy of a come-up story more than a reflective literary memoir.

memoir · inspiring · gritty · candid

What Lucky Me feels like to read

• Page-turner: 68%
• Darkness: 45%
• Emotional intensity: 55%
• Humor: 35%
• Romance: 5%
• Complexity: 25%

Reading age: 14+ (adult)

Spice: 0 out of 5. none

Lucky Me tropes

• rags to riches
• chance encounter changes everything
• self-made outsider
• tough love mentor figures

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