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Summary: DOUBLE EAGLE
Review: I LOVE A GOOD STORY AND GOLF IS MY PASSION..THIS NEW STORY HAD ME LATE FOR WORK MORE THAN ONCE..I LISTENED ON MY WAY TO AND FROM THE PHARMACY, WHICH INCLUDES A FERRY RIDE DAILY..I ADMIRE THE CHRONOLOGICAL GENESIS OF THE STORY AND IT MADE ME GRIN MORE THAN ONCE THINKING ABOUT THIS YOUNG WANNA BE LAWYER AND HIS DESIRE FOR THE TRUTH AND THE WAY THE AUTHOR UNFOLDS HIM AND ALLOWS US TO SEE HIM MATURE..I WANT TO SEE THE MOVIE...I BOUGHT THE BOOK ON CASSETTE AND KNEW NOTHING OF THE STORY AND THAT MADE IT ALL THAT MUCH BETTER
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Summary: A Great Read!
Review: I normally stick to non-fiction books when it comes to sports, especially for golf. I was on vacation and this was the only golf paperback book in the airport so I bought it. Excellent, excellent read. It's a fast read too. The front cover says its a mix of Grisham and Feinstein. I've both authors and would agree! Great book because it mixes fact/history with fiction.
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Summary: Excellent golf facts and fiction novel!
Review: I normally stick to non-fiction books when it comes to sports, especially for golf. I was on vacation and this was the only golf paperback book in the airport so I bought it. Excellent, excellent read. It's a fast read too. The front cover says its a mix of Grisham and Feinstein. I've both authors and would agree! Great book because it mixes fact/history with fiction.
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Summary: A Great Read
Review: I thouroghly enjoyed this book. The golf stories were grounded enough in reality to make the plight of Beau Stedman plausible. What I thought was going to be a sappy play up of what a great man Bobby Jones was turned out to be a balanced look into the life of both professional and amateur golf in the early to middle 1900's- a world apart from today. Aside from the golf content, this is a first class mystery, revealing itself only one puzzle piece at a time. No one will confuse tis with an Agatha Christie but a first rate page turner just the same.
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Summary: In a word - brilliant!
Review: If you are debating on whether you want to read this book please don't hesitate another moment. Even if you aren't a golf fan this clever novel will keep you fixated on the wonderful mysterious friendship between two friend - Beau Stedman and the legendary Bobby Jones.If you are a golf fan, it should be required reading over the summer. An absoultely terrific novel from Michael Veron. I can't wait for The Greatest Course that Never Was.
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Summary: A pleasant mixture of golf fantasy & legal practice
Review: If you have any appreciation of golf history - especially that involving Bobby Jones, Augusta National, and The Masters - then this is the book for you. And if you're a lawyer to boot, then welcome to nirvana. In reading various reviews, I was expecting a book with jawdropping twists and turns. It's simply not so...the plot twists are more accurately 'swerves' and are about as subtle as a sledgehammer. Moreover, the reader can go 25 - 30 pages without a significant event transpiring. [Most notably in the author's shot-by-shot, interminable rendering of his (er, I mean, Charley Hunter's) fantasy round at Augusta.] Not that this makes a bad book. Bobby Jones was a giant of American Sport, and although a work of fiction, Veron's work really nails the spirit of a sportsman with a supreme intellect. Jones led a full life as a practicing attorney, and Veron's take - done in sublime fashion - is that the full measure of the man must take into account both his sporting and legal accomplishments. This aspect of the book alone makes the "The Greatest Player..." a very worthwhile read & certainly worth the 2 - 3 evenings it will take to blitz through this sweet tale.
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Summary: A Solid Read
Review: If you have any weakness in remembering the acccomplishments of the golfers from the twenty's, thirty's, forty's and fifty's, this book will be invaluable. It is also a fun read and has an interesting twist at the end. The book cover suggests it is a combination of Grisham and Finestein. That is a bit of hyperbole, but it is a well done piece of writing and one which golfers and non-golfers can relate to. Worth picking up.
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Summary: The Greatest Golfer Who Never Lived
Review: If you like, let alone love golf you won't be able to put this one down. Clear prose, engaging drama and attention to detail made me keep reminding myself the story is fiction. Waiting for the movie.
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Summary: Discover a gifted writer of fiction
Review: It is hard to find writers who really have the talent that lives up to all of the hype that tries to make (instead of find) the next Grisham or Collins or Clancy. In The Greatest Player Who Never Lives, J. Michael Veron weaves a web that is spectacular in its simplicity. He generates a feel and excitement that literally possesses you to read on. You must find out the next twist, the next turn, with most of them unexpected. This truly could be one of the best new writers in the last few years, though it is a bit early with just one book, but you MUST read this one, it is a classic.
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Summary: Number 18 at Augusta National
Review: Just finished reading The Greatest Player Who Never Lived. I really enjoyed the book however I would like to point out an error on page 141. I was an employee on the maintenance crew at Augusta National Golf Club from 1990 thru 1999 so I feel like I know the course like the back of my hand. While Charley's description of each hole is exactly as the hole's look the description on number 18 when it come's to the two fairway bunker's is in error. When he say's the longer hitter's who fly the the two bunker's will land in the tenth fairway is wrong. That area is reffered to as the lower driving range. The tenth fairway is to the right of 18 fairway on the other side of a big row of magnolia's and loblolly pine tree's. The area known as the lower driving range was Hord Hardin's practice area when he was chairman of the board.
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