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Title: Driving Myself Crazy: Misadventures of a Novice Golfer by Jessica Maxwell ISBN: 0-553-37990-9 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 27 February, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.41 (17 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Great Read - for 18 Holes
Comment: For a throughly fresh perspecitve on golf - (a game that has already driven many a player to the brink of losing sanity), Driving Myself Crazy is a must read. Jessica Maxwell masterfully takes the reader along on a most enjoyable trip from South Carolina to Scotland and numerous points in between, in her mission to learn to play the game.
As she seeks to find consistency in a game filled with inconsistencies, Maxwell encounters a number of golf professionals, including the legendary Nancy Lopez, who share an interminable array of swing techniques and sage advice with the determined novice. The recounting of her travels and travails along the way are both hilarious and brilliantly unique. Most readers who have played the game will easily identify with Maxwell's humorous golfing faux pas and experiences - humbly reminded of their own frustrations and triumphs while learning the game.
Readers will find a new appreciation for the game and it's rich history from Maxwell's visit to St. Andrews. Her beautifully detailed description of golf course scenery and wildlife that all too often go unnoticed by players of more experience open our eyes to the fact that any round of golf - regardless of score, can be more enjoyable if we stop to smell the grass clippings along the way.
Rating: 5
Summary: Beginner's Mind Is Its Own Nirvanna
Comment: Driving Myself Crazy is a quick read, even for a male reader like me; it scurries along like a topped tee shot, a hole in one that ricochet's off one rich golf truth after another. The book is supposed to be nonfiction; however I'm suspicious of anyone who's favorite club is her 3-iron. Besides the comic failures of every beginner's golf story ("Golfheimer's again"), there's a woman fishing for love and traveling briskly along a slicer's outside-in swing path on the way to golf wisdom. Hardly surprising, Maxwell turns out to be the quintessential absent-minded professor herself. I found myself changing my grip and my takeaway (without pictures -- her prose is that visual!), trying out the tips that Maxwell encounters along this journey. And I learned quite a bit about fishing to boot. This is a book that needed to be written, and I found myself reading with much delight. I may not be hitting it any farther or straighter, but then there's no cosmic reward for that.
Rating: 4
Summary: Trust Your Swing.
Comment: A very funny book about golf (a sport I have recently taken up) and life (which I took up 63 years ago). I heard the author speak at the Sacramento Bee Book club. Funny and a nice person as well.
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Title: Tour Tempo: Golf's Last Secret Finally Revealed by John Novosel, John Garrity ISBN: 0385509278 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 27 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Playing with Fire : A Novel of Suspense (ROBINSON, PETER) by Peter Robinson ISBN: 006019877X Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 20 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Blacklist: A V.I. Warshawski Novel by Sara Paretsky ISBN: 0399150854 Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group Pub. Date: 29 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Kite Runner (Alex Awards (Awards)) by Khaled Hosseini ISBN: 1573222453 Publisher: Riverhead Books Pub. Date: 29 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Barefoot Contessa Parties! Ideas and Recipes for Easy Parties That Are Really Fun by Ina Garten, James Merrell, Barefoot Contessa ISBN: 0609606441 Publisher: Clarkson N Potter Publishers Pub. Date: 27 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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