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Title: Sometimes You See It Coming : A Novel by Kevin Baker ISBN: 0-06-053597-0 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 03 June, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.44 (9 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Readable but not great
Comment: I found this an interesting and often humourous book. Although many of the characters were caricatures, I was able to suspend my disbelief to the point that I became enthralled in the mystery and enigma of John Barr. As a result, I found myself rooting for his professional and emotional recovery from a near season-ending slump.
The novel is told largely in the first person through Barr's teammate, "Old Swizzlehead". The story lost some of its credibility as this character's narrative swung (sometimes in mid-paragraph) from inner city black street slang to grammar and vocabulary more befitting a college educated WASP English major.
The author shows a real inderstanding for baseball and athletes and as such I would recommend it to baseball fans. Others may find it a bit tedious.
Rating: 3
Summary: If you really know baseball, stay away.
Comment: Three stars because Baker is such an extraordinary writer that he deserves no less, but this baseball novel is a mostly hollow, unrealistic, and frankly, boring, walk through the (fictional, of course) career of the game's greatest player, who is also the game's least-known player. What?
Within the covers you'll find the fast-talking leadoff man, the hard-boiled plaid-jacket wearing old sports reporter, and the Kathryn Hepburn-like aging woman sportswriter (who is so sketchily presented it makes you wonder if Baker's ever met a woman!).
Allen Barra, formerly of Salon, recently named this the best baseball novel of all time. Yikes! Read "The Southpaw" by Mark Harris instead. It's cliched, it's hokey, but it is really about baseball. Baker's book, on the other hand, sounds like what a novelist thinks baseball should be. If you love the game, the incredulities of the last sections of this book will have you reaching for your scorecard and marking clearly in black pencil, "E-1."
Rating: 5
Summary: Didn't know a Baseball book could be this GOOD
Comment: Wonderful book with great characters, great plot, great humor, and this perfect flow that wants to take you to the end and give you just what you want from a book. Unpretentious good writing full of life and fun yet with suspence and satire mixed in.
This book is a winner, the best baseball novel I have ever read and maybe the best book I have read all year. Mr. Baker has writen a masterpiece.
You do not have to even like baseball to love this novel.
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Title: Dreamland : A Novel by Kevin Baker ISBN: 0060934808 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Paradise Alley : A Novel by Kevin Baker ISBN: 006095521X Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 30 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Squeeze Play : A Novel by Jane Leavy ISBN: 0060567740 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 14 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Baseball Prospectus 2004: Statistics, Analysis and Insight for the Information Age by The Baseball Prospectus Team of Experts ISBN: 0761134026 Publisher: Workman Publishing Company Pub. Date: February, 2004 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Party of One: The Loners' Manifesto by Anneli S. Rufus ISBN: 1569245134 Publisher: Marlowe & Company Pub. Date: February, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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