I had seen the movie multiple times, but the book is way better (of course). I was surprised at just how many different scams he was able to pull off, obviously this was well before PC's, etc. which would have made it much harder to do now a days. The bad prison he was in, OMG, that was intense. I wish he would have gone more into how his life has changed and how he got away from all the scamming though.