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BOOKS THREAD

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by Moderator1, Apr 22, 2005.

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  1. Fenian_Bastard

    Fenian_Bastard Guest

    How many specific pitches does he describe in painstaking detail?
     
    Fenian_Bastard, Apr 24, 2008
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  2. Moderator1

    Moderator1 Moderator Staff Member

    Probably a lot because it is about 500 pages.
    Feinstein is a great story teller and I wish he'd spend more time on that than painstaking, detailed play-by-play of year old games. But he's sold a bunch of books so he's doing something right.
     
    Moderator1, Apr 24, 2008
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  3. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    I don't really know Glavine, but I can think of no worse fate than a year spent with Mussina and his sneering condescension. Is it 500 pages of Mussina reminding readers of how intelligent he is and how stupid any question Feinstein might have had was?
     
    The Big Ragu, Apr 24, 2008
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  4. Moderator1

    Moderator1 Moderator Staff Member

    He did go to Stanford you know.

    I haven't talked to Glavine in years but he was always the go-to guy for a reason. Guy can and will talk.
     
    Moderator1, Apr 24, 2008
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  5. Moderator1

    Moderator1 Moderator Staff Member

    And Feinstein would get along well with Mussina. I tell this story not to knock John. I like John, he's always been extremely gracious to me. He told this one on himself. Some folks were sitting around a table at the feedbag at the ACC tournament and the subject turned to his book on the Ravens. Feinstein said someone told him Billick was rather arrogant. Poking fun at his own rep for arrogance, John said: "Like that's going to be a problem for me?"
     
    Moderator1, Apr 24, 2008
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  6. buckweaver

    buckweaver Active Member

    Holy shit, I have to get this.

    B&N.com says it comes out May 1. This moves up to No. 1 on my list.
     
    buckweaver, Apr 25, 2008
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  7. Moderator1

    Moderator1 Moderator Staff Member

    It's out now, it's on my kitchen counter.
     
    Moderator1, Apr 25, 2008
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  8. Ben_Hecht

    Ben_Hecht Active Member


    . . . right up there with Darling Ron Yalie . . .
     
    Ben_Hecht, Apr 25, 2008
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  9. snuffy2

    snuffy2 Member

    Feinstein's formula is to carve into the edges of the nondescript undiscovered underneath of the corporate media sports hierarchal fire hydrant and pretends to piss. I am also a pool swimmer and longtime ACC (his Wash Post past still sparks a fu cause of the disrespectful reference to Dean Smith as 'Deno') fan and know and respect his act. Perhaps he is self a self-important blowhard wearing the Pope's sports costume but I still read him with my jaundiced chlorine red eyes.
     
    snuffy2, Apr 25, 2008
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  10. Herbert Anchovy

    Herbert Anchovy Active Member

    The great Tony Horwitz's part travelogue-part inner spiritual journey-part historical investigation, in no particular order, on America's sheerest origins, comes out in three days.

    And, no, I am not Tony, but I would buy him several drinks had I the chance.
     
    Herbert Anchovy, Apr 26, 2008
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  11. Birdscribe

    Birdscribe Active Member

    Get in line.

    "Confederates in the Attic" is on my top-10 list.

    Two trips to B&N in the last week have me well-stocked for a while, but this book will be on the list.
     
    Birdscribe, Apr 26, 2008
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  12. Herbert Anchovy

    Herbert Anchovy Active Member

    Same. I read parts of this book the way people listen to favorite songs or rewatch favorite movies.

    Easily the most important book written on the war in the last 20 years. It's the kind you wish you'd written, or at least thought of, first.

    'The Civil Wargasm.' Ha. I love it.
     
    Herbert Anchovy, Apr 27, 2008
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