I'm listening to The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron and reading A Princess of Mars. The Aaron book is pretty good so far and I'm enjoying Edgar Rice Burroughs' writing even if it is a bit dated.
I'm listening to The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron and reading A Princess of Mars. The Aaron book is pretty good so far and I'm enjoying Edgar Rice Burroughs' writing even if it is a bit dated.
Wow, I am really surprised that The Art of Fielding has mostly lukewarm reception on this board (with a couple of exceptions). I've heard only the most glowing things about it. It's on my list, definitely.
I'm still piddling through my first Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls, which I think I posted about a gajillion months ago on this board. I'm almost done, partly because it has gotten better (just BLOW UP THE DAMN BRIDGE ALREADY), and partly because I'm eager to get to the Coco Chanel biography.
There is no such thing as a pitching prospect.
For me "The Art of Fielding" was mediocre at best. It starts out so promising, but about 1/3 of the way through it stops being a good baseball book and becomes something else. Some of the themes in the story are very "adult." Not that I couldn't deal with it, or even disagree with some of the things that occur, but they feel so forced. I also found that, by the end of the book I hated the main character. Others may feel differently, but my opinion is that 1/3 of the book is an above average baseball story, and the other 2/3 of the book is an overly complicated, and poorly written love story.
Let's get weird!
A good walk spoiled. - I am a bit behind on my reading list.
I could see someone being disappointed if they went into The Art of Fielding thinking it was a baseball book.
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Speaking of baseball, it's a travesty that I haven't read "Boys of Summer" until now, but I'm about to start it.
Also, "Slam" by Nick Hornby. It's billed as a "young adult" novel and while I haven't fit into that category for quite some time, I'm a fan of Hornby's other work so I'm going to give it a try.
"I can make all the stadiums rock."
-Air Supply
Thinking Fast and Slow.
Next Reds manager, second shooter. --Confirmed on Redszone.
"I am your child from the future. I'm sorry I didn't tell you this earlier." - Dylan Easton
I hadn't read any reviews for The Art of Fielding, so yup I thought it was a "baseball" book. At it's core it is a story about baseball and baseball players, but I really wasn't expecting the book to develop the way it did. I guess I should've read more about it before buying it. I just didn't enjoy it. It's just my opinion, I was just trying to save someone else from having to slug through the whole thing.
Let's get weird!
I am almost finished reading this now. This is a good book to read if you cannot read a lot in one sitting. Multiple short story's of Tom Browning's life/career.
http://www.amazon.com/Tom-Brownings-.../dp/1596700467
* Attended the 1990 and 2010 Reds Division clinchers *
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Grape works as a soda. Sort of as a gum. I wonder why it doesn't work as a pie. Grape pie? There's no grape pie. - Larry David
The Mental Game of Baseball by H. A. Dorfman.
My son is reading The Mental ABC's of Pitching by Dorfman.
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