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Summary: Reilly's the best
Review: Reilly is the reason I read SI and if you read this book, you'll understand why. Definitely one of the funniest sports writers out there. This gives an insight to a game most people (unfortunately) find boring. Lots of funny stories about your favorite pros. Very much worth the money. And for another book chocked full of laughs, I suggest NO ONE'S EVEN BLEEDING.
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Summary: For all non-golfers too....
Review: Reilly makes a very frustrating sport hysterical. He really puts famous golfers, not-so-famous hackers and some very inspirational athletes in perspective. Even if you don't golf, this book is a great read for it's humor and great stories.
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Summary: If you like Reilly's SI columns, this is the book for you
Review: Rick Reilly makes you laugh, think, and occassionally shed a tear while taking a different view of the sports world in his weekly Sports Illustrated column. With Who's Your Caddy, Reilly takes the sometimes too serious golf community and turns it on its head. I found myself laughing out loud at least a couple of times per chapter and often had to share a passage with my wife (who doesn't even golf).
The title perfectly describes the range of golfers that Reilly chronicles in this book. While caddying for golfers ranging from pros to celebrities and scratch golfers to hacks, Reilly reveals the reasons so many of us play and love the game. You don't have to be a golfer to enjoy this book, but if you do golf, you'll be able to relate to many of the situations that Reilly describes. His offbeat sense of self-deprecating humor and his commentary on rounds with the non-professionals such as Donald Trump and professional gambler Dewey Tomko are especially enjoyable. Reilly's empathy for golf's more enigmatic characters such as John Daly, David Duval, and Casey Martin offer a different perspective from the mainstream sports reports.
This is a great book to unwind with after a long day and you'll find yourself wanting to read one more chapter before putting it down.
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Summary: Reilly is Underrated
Review: Rick Reilly may just be the best and most unpretentious writer about sports or anything for that matter in America. Even when his jokes fall flat at least you're not reading for the millionth time one of these "sport is like a way of life, it reaches in us and bla bla bla" type writings. I'm amazed that he has not been nominated for a National Magazine Award, hmm, looks like that institution shares a lot with Oscar in its ability to constantly overllook great talents. This book is great, just entertaining and a light read, something you can enjoy over and over again. Yet another cult classic from a master.
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Summary: Rick's right down the middle!
Review: Rick Reilly really hits it straight in this very funny look at one of the greatest jobs in sports (besides playing!) His very funny loop with John Daly is incredibly honest, his jaunt with Jack is humiliating and his time with Tom, (Lehman that is) was humbling. The book is a winner, I read it in 1 day!
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Summary: Not Plimpton, but not bad
Review: Rick Reilly says that he wanted to do a Plimpton and see what it is like to be inside the ropes as a caddy for pro and celebrity golfers. He talked various big names (e.g. Nicklaus, Daly, Lehman, Trump)into a short-term caddy hitch. Unlike Plimpton, Reilly does not spend much time recording his own struggles and observations, which in his case is probably a good thing. Essentially this book is a collection of interviews and anecdotes collected with a bag on his shoulder.Apparently Reilly is a big shot sportswriter at Sports Illustrated (I switched to a better barber shop and haven't seen SI in 10 years) and has received a number of awards for his writing. I wouldn't have thought it. In the current volume he sprays pseudo-Southern similies like a drunken Dan Rather and plain wore out this pore old reader by the middle of the book. Is it all bad? No,not at all. A fascinating chapter on high stakes golf gamblers covered new territory and the John Daly chapter was a more gentle and revealing account than usual. The translations of caddy-jabber are fun. Get this book for your next flight across the country. Its perfect at 35,000ft.
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Summary: Laugh-out-loud funny
Review: Talk about inside the ropes! "Who's Your Caddy" makes "A Good Walk Spoiled" look like it was researched and written in Feinstein's basement. Reilly not only gets inside the ropes, but inside the players' heads and family lives, and in John Daley's case inside his jockstrap. He's also a master story teller. His profiles of Lehman, Daley and Duval alone are worth the price of admission.
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Summary: "Quite Distasteful" Old Chap
Review: The book starts off well, but the chapter about John Daly is really distasteful. Irony is, Reilly falls into the hole he dug for Daly. Some of the things the golfers did and said to Mr. Reilly were obviously not meant to be published. However, Mr. Reilly betrays their confidence in hopes of some cheap laughter at their expense. Pro-golfers will take a dim view. This book could have been great, but cheap tricks and crude language are never funny, Mr. Reilly. And the chapter on the lady golfer reeks of sexism. This book may only earn Mr. Reilly the "John Daly" of sportwriters title, and not much respect from tour players.
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Summary: "Quite Distasteful" Old Chap
Review: The book starts off well, but the chapter about John Daly is really distasteful. Irony is, Reilly falls into the hole he dug for Daly. Some of the things the golfers did and said to Mr. Reilly were obviously not meant to be published. However, Mr. Reilly betrays their confidence in hopes of some cheap laughter at their expense. Pro-golfers will take a dim view. This book could have been great, but cheap tricks and crude language are never funny, Mr. Reilly. And the chapter on the lady golfer reeks of sexism. This book may only earn Mr. Reilly the "John Daly" of sportwriters title, and not much respect from tour players.
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Summary: Insightful and Witty
Review: The only reason I subscribe to SI is because of Rick Reilly--he is one of the finest sports writers of all time. In Who's Your Caddy, we see him at the top of his craft, deftly combining wit with insight, self deprecation with both objective criticism and praise--ultimately providing the reader with a glass-boat-bottom view of golf in the raw. A must read for anyone that calls himself a golfer.
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