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Summary: Terrifc and very touching
Review: James Dodson understand how golf can bring two people together.
The emotions involved here with the game are very real and very powerful. For two family members, in this case, a father and son playing golf to get in touch with each other, speaks volume about the game itself. The father has only a short time to live, and decides to spend time with his son while playing golf. Very touching. This is what this game can do to people. In his book, James brings the two together with brilliancy. Golfers who love the game so much will understand. For those who do not play it or who do not understand the traditions associated with the game will have a hard time come to terms with what it means to be on a golf course.
The author brings together history, emotions and life experiences which become priceless as you reach the final chapter of this wonderful book.
Good show and great swing Mr. Dodson !!
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Summary: Possibly the best book I've ever read.
Review: Just as Field of Dreams wasn't a baseball movie, this isn't a book about golf. Instead, it's a delightful and touching story of a father and son who love and respect each other more than either realizes. Ought to be required reading for every father, son, brother, mother, sister, ...
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Summary: PEACEFUL MOMENT
Review: The most peaceful part of my day is at lunch time when I escape from the cruel harsh bureaucratic world. Mr. Dodson's story not only sent me on a fairy tale journey that most golfers (and sons) only dream about but reacquainted me with feelings that I had conveniently suppressed for many years. Unlike so many sons, I was not particularly close to my father. His untimely passing never allowed me the opportunity of "knowing the man". Somehow, Mr. Dodson provided a prospective that I didn't know was possible. Final Rounds is the most well written novel that I've ever read. The detail and eloquent writing style that Mr. Dodson demonstrates makes Final Rounds a true classic. Warning: Do not read the last few pages without a box of tissues at your side. Thank you Mr. Dodson for you "helped me see that a man is never finished being a son".
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Summary: PEACEFUL MOMENT
Review: The most peaceful part of my day is at lunch time when I escape from the cruel harsh bureaucratic world. Mr. Dodson's story not only sent me on a fairy tale journey that most golfers (and sons) only dream about but reacquainted me with feelings that I had conveniently suppressed for many years. Unlike so many sons, I was not particularly close to my father. His untimely passing never allowed me the opportunity of "knowing the man". Somehow, Mr. Dodson provided a prospective that I didn't know was possible. Final Rounds is the most well written novel that I've ever read. The detail and eloquent writing style that Mr. Dodson demonstrates makes Final Rounds a true classic. Warning: Do not read the last few pages without a box of tissues at your side. Thank you Mr. Dodson for you "helped me see that a man is never finished being a son".
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Summary: Incredible
Review: This book was recommended to me before my recent trip to Scotland and Ireland. I intended to read it on the plane but once I began reading it I couldn't put it down.It is an emotional roller coaster ride. I laughed out loud and also found myself choked up. It made me think about playing golf with my father and my son and has some valuable lessons about parenthood as well. I would recommend this book to anyone, but particularly to fathers and sons. It is incredible.
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Summary: Final Rounds: A Father, A Son, the Golf Journey of a Lifetim
Review: This books goes far beyond the realm of golf. It is about the relationship between a father and son and how golf keeps bringing them closer together.
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Summary: A Book that is about more than Golf, and Makes one think
Review: This is a book that will make you sit back and reflect not only on the Authors relationship with his father but your own relationship with others. It makes one think about how you have traveled the journey that is life and what you remember as the best times of your life. If you have ever lost a loved one this one will touch that place that we all have and feel for the loss
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Summary: A powerful and moving book about much more than golf.
Review: This is a wonderful and touching story about a father and his middle-aged son who share some two weeks of the father's last months of life on a golfing pilgrimage to Scotland. The trip is an occasion for both to reflect on what seems to have been the central relationship in their lives. Dodson's account is, by turns, funny, wistful, sad and, in all instances, warm. His father's observation that "The game ends too soon" is as applicable to this tale as it is to the life which is so richly celebrated here. This book deserves a wide audience of both golfers and non-golfers alike
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Summary: Superb, don't miss this one
Review: This is the moving and true story of the last golf trip taken by a dying man and his son, beautifully written by the son. Though a golf trip is the central focus of the story, golf is more a metaphor which the author uses quite skillfully to recount the significant events in his life and the roles his father, and the game, have played in his experiences. The trip, long planned and frequently postponed, takes on a new urgency when the son learns that his father's cancer has reached the acute stage. Returning to England, the birthplace of the game, is a cathartic homecoming of sorts for both, as each has been there independent of the other during a time of great trauma, discovery and personal growth: the father during World War II, the son after the tragic death of a friend. I could not put this book down, and would suggest that the reader read the last 100 pages alone, as it is not easy to keep one's composure in the end
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Summary: A wonderful story that every father/son tandem should read.
Review: This is, without exception one of the finest books I have ever read. Mr. Dodson and his father share an exceptional tie that every father and son should strive for. I continue to watch my relationship with my own father grow, and now know that I will have something to pass on to my children as well. Congratulations, Mr. Dodson on a wonderful literary work. I would reccomend this to anyone who has ever been a father or a son.
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