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Title: Playing in the Zone by Andrew Cooper ISBN: 1-57062-151-9 Publisher: Shambhala Pub. Date: 20 April, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: If you only have time to read one book, don't pick this one
Comment: Playing in the Zone : Exploring the Spiritual Dimensions of Sports by Andrew Cooper is a mediocre book about an excellent topic. Throughout the book I kept wondering whether Mr. Cooper was worthy of his topic. He identifies the zone and justifies its worthiness. His notes on his zen experiences are unexpectedly insightful. But overall he appears to be on the outside of his topic, looking in. His book may prepare you better to be a spectator than to maximize your personal zone activites. This book is good for folks who are not quite true believers in the title I guess. But for those of us looking for advanced classes, we might as well keep on looking because Mr. Cooper offers very little beyond the basics. If he writes another book to expand on his further studies of the zone, I would be willing to give the first couple chapters a try.
Rating: 5
Summary: Playing in the Zone
Comment: Maybe the best thing you can say about a book is that you can't hold on to it. That has certainly been my experience with this one. Each time I buy a new copy for myself, I remember a friend or relative or writing student who I know must have it. And not just jocks and fans. I sent a copy to my baseball-loving step dad and got a call raving about it from my sports-hating, arts-loving mom. As in much of the best nonfiction writing, by delving deeply into a particular subject the author hits upon themes and insights that are universal. Cooper's appreciation of athletic craft also tells much about spiritual experience, the mythic mind, the nature of the self, and other matters of primary concern. This is not a how-to, inner game, or Zen-of-sports book. It is an exploration of meaning in something so near at hand that we take it for granted. You'll be surprised at what you find.
Rating: 1
Summary: The book is empty!
Comment: The whole book is just an introduction to the subject of the "zone." Someone that read the book will not learn anything other then there is something called the "zone." And also, I was amazed that there was no reference to Dr John Douillard's book: "Body, mind and sport." Although at the time I read Dr Douillard's book I thought it did have too many testimonies and not enough references to research works. Despite it, people interested in the "zone" (for example experiencing it) would be better off reading Dr Douillard's book.
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