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Title: Missing Links by RICK REILLY ISBN: 0-385-48886-6 Publisher: Main Street Books Pub. Date: 19 May, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.43 (77 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Missing Links -- A Novel by Rick Reilly,
Comment: Think you play good golf? Try hitting a 3 iron "...while keeping one foot on a sprinkler head that never goes off..." Welcome to Ponkaquogue Municipal Golf Course! Named by Golf Illustrated as 'possibly the worst golf course in America', Ponky, as the course is called, is the setting for Rick Reilly's incredibly funny novel, Missing Links. The story-teller and main character of this off-the-wall saga is Raymond Lee Hart. Anxious to go on the tour, his dreams are put on the line when he plays the match of his life with his father. "...my father hasn't talked to me in 5 years..." Raymond says, "...but that's o.k., I haven't listened in 10." You'll also meet Hoover, "an irredeemable hack," Crowbar; Thud; and Two-down, so named because he always says, "Boys, the bets don't start until I'm two-down." Then, after playing "...like a diseased yak on the first four holes...he comes barreling back making pars from behind dumpsters and bottoms of lakes." Rick Reilly has written a fast-paced,riveting story. The knock-out one-liners will get you going and the all-or-nothing finishing game will keep you hooked until the last page. Read Missing Links and you'll never see golf in quite the same way again.
Rating: 5
Summary: FANTASTIC!!!!! A GREAT READ
Comment: Let me start out by saying that this is the best book I have read since the last Reilly book I picked up (Who's your Caddy?). I'm sure everyone know who Rick Reilly is, he is the ONLY reason to read Sports Illustrated. This novel is no exception to the Reilly Rule (Read anything he writes). I would read the phone-book cover to cover if he wrote it. Missing Links is the story of a group of "chops" that play on the worst muni in the country (Ponky). When I started reading it I was hooked right away, the characters are original and pretty funny as well. The writing is pure Reilly at his best, witty as well as poignant. I found myself laughing out loud on the NYC subway,which got me a few looks from the other passengers. I figured that the book would be just one big laugh. I was wrong there was actually a part or two that got you all misty! Still the events of the book are so funny don't be surprised if you miss your stop on the train or stay up all night to finish the book. My favorite part was how Two-Down got the Lexus! Pure Genius! Just take my word for it and buy it. You will NOT be sorry.
Rating: 4
Summary: Gollf nuts will love this book
Comment: Good book about the kind of golf most people play- not the exclusive country clubs we see featured in golf magazines, but the run down muni's who could use a few extra groundskeepers, a little more grass on the fairways, and a ball washer or two. Reilly does a first rate job of describing the world of a bunch of blue collar hackers, with all their foibles and eccentricities. The plot is well crafted, too, although maybe a little storybook in the end.
The one criticism I have of the book is that while he does a good job of including women and ethnic minorities among the regulars at the muni, he resorts to every cheap stereotype imaginable when it comes to describing a couple of homesexual characters. While a writer wouldn't dare use cliches about women, african-americans, or the disabled for cheap laughs or as plot devices anymore, apparently Mr. Reilly sees nothing harmful in portraying gays as sexually deviant, deceitful, lisping caricatures.
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Title: Who's Your Caddy? : Looping for the Great, Near Great, and Reprobates of Golf by RICK REILLY ISBN: 0385488858 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 06 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Life of Reilly : The Best of Sports Illustrated's Rick Reilly by Rick Reilly ISBN: 1931933596 Publisher: Sports Illustrated Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Slo Mo! by Rick Reilly ISBN: 0767905512 Publisher: Broadway Books Pub. Date: 17 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: A Nasty Bit of Rough by David Feherty ISBN: 1590710002 Publisher: Rugged Land Pub. Date: 20 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Somewhere in Ireland, A Village is Missing an Idiot by David Feherty ISBN: 1590710096 Publisher: Rugged Land Pub. Date: 19 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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