I’d forgotten how funny it is — well, not funny, exactly, but witty.   I remember not liking it that much when I read it the first time, so it’s a surprise that it’s actually …

A good, worthwhile read, but sometimes a little much with the I Get It attitude…by which I mean that, sometimes, sportswriters will take it upon themselves to lecture the reader on attitudes about athletics and …

I found it for reasonably cheap (note: not cheap, just reasonably so given the difficulty in tracking it down) and read it in what seemed like no time; he’s such a natural, easy writer, and …

It’s very good writing, pretty but spare, not like I remember the movie at all.   It’s frustrating in spots, certainly, but if Wolff had had some sort of getting-it-together epiphany, it would have felt …

I can’t decide if I liked it or not.   It’s well written and moves along, but I feel like a lot got left out — which is weird, given how much got left in. …

I liked the movie better, actually; Hinton’s narrators have a disingenuous way of talking about themselves that gets a bit irritating after a while, and it works better as film melodrama.   Also, I used …

A sweet baseball reminiscence that could stand a tighter, cleaner edit — and unless you’re a Red Sox fan and/or you know a good deal about the game pre-1950, I don’t know that it’s the …

John Gregory Dunne’s dry prose is such a good fit with the movie industry; he’s really able to take the wind out of it, but without sounding bitter or mean.   Good time capsule, good …

It’s meticulously researched, and some of the descriptions made me nauseated enough that I had to put the book down to read something else for a little while — but there’s still something irritating about …

The book is good — Styron’s prose is outstanding — but it’s too long; I like the movie better, because Styron does tend to get into sidebars that don’t feel necessary to the story, and …