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Playing Right Field : A Jew Grows in Greenwich

Playing Right Field : A Jew Grows in Greenwich

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Rating: 2 stars
Summary: The Travails Of A Rich And Once Young Man
Review: So what do you do if you are the son of a very wealthy man who showed you a radical lack of the sensitivity and understanding necessary for experiencing a proper and happy childhood? Well, if you're George Tabb, you wait until you are well into your 40s and commit your vast store of cherished childhood pain to the pages of a family gossip tell-all book.

But I have to level with you, do the childhood problems of a privileged yet troubled lad, relived several decades later, sound like the premise of anything unique, or even interesting, to you? No, me neither. Perhaps if the author had broken away from this cruel family and social predicament and struggled to make it on his own in a heroic bid for the freedom and self-respect this nasty situation obviously called for, well, then maybe there'd be something to hang your sympathies on. But apparently for this author the solution was to move into his mom's place in Manhattan, form a series of failed punk rock bands, write for the fanzine and weekly arts and leisure press, all the while continuing to live on the family dime for the next two decades.

There comes a time in everyone's life when you must put aside childish things and accept the burdens of adulthood. We can only hope that such a moment will someday arrive for Mr. Tabb.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: what a book!
Review: When i started reading it i seriously could not put this book down. It has everyhting needed to be the perfect book. When reading this book you really have to feel bad for George Tabb. He was beat up every day on the bus jsut for being Jewish. His dad was horrible too him( when he played on the baseball team his dad would only buy one shirt for him and his brother). He was even beat up by a blind kid (he wouldn't hit him) and people thought he was making everyhting up. He was punched in the face just for defending a retarded kid. George Tabb is in Furious George a really punk band.


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