What is luck? The chances are you don't really know, but you
probably believe in it, and I bet that you invoke the word every
day of your life ...'Bad luck!' 'That was lucky!' 'You should be so
lucky!' 'What a lucky escape!' - said with varying degrees of
intensity, sincerity, sarcasm, amusement, incredulity or disgust.
But what is luck? This book tries to determine what luck is, how it
operates in our lives, and how far the individual is at its mercy -
favoured by good luck or cursed by bad? Is there any justice or
fair play in life, or are these merely human concepts that don't
exist in the laws governing the universe? Whatever you think you
believe, by the time you have read this book, the odds are that you
will have changed your mind. James M Kileen's analysis ranges from
Astrology to Zoroastrianism and everything in between: the big bang
and the butterfly effect, destiny and determinism, fortune-telling
and feng shui, gambling and game theory, miracles and Murphy's Law,
oracles and ordeals, philosophy and religion, precognition and the
placebo effect, serendipity and synchronicity. A Matter of Luck is
a highly readable yet thought-provoking work, interspersed with
illuminating and amusing examples to illlustrate each facet of this
fascinating subject: for example, the true stories of the man who
broke the bank at Monte Carlo, King Umberto and the chef, James
Dean's car, and the woman who simultaneously chose the winning
numbers for both the Massachusetts and Rhode Island lotteries
(although the numbers she chose for the Rhode Island lottery were
the winning numbers for the Massachusetts lottery, and vice versa).
Lucky or unlucky - you decide, if you can.
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