" I did not read this book, but I listed it because of the movie with Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr. I was seven years old at the time when I watched it with my dad. He was reading the book and the book was sitting on the end table and I remember reading the title of the book and was surprised the movie had the same title. That impressed a 7 year old a lot. A movie and a book of the same title, wow. That movie scared the living hell out of me and made an impression in my mind that a book could do that as well. I wanted to read so bad that I started reading my dad's books. I may not of understood a lot what I read but I did it any ways. To this day, The Man with the Golden Arm, is the reason I still read books. "
— Jay, 2/19/2014