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 enlarge | Author: Charles Leerhsen
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Category: Book
List Price: $26.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  22 reviews
Sales Rank: 18265
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 368
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.1 x 1.4
ISBN: 0743291778
Dewey Decimal Number: 636.1750929
EAN: 9780743291774
ASIN: 0743291778
Publication Date: May 20, 2008
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 Insight into different times June 12, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Crazy Good is a wonderful insight into life that is very different than today, but also in many ways, still the same. I am an avid harness racing owner and hands on participant in the sport, therefore I found the story fascinating. There are many parallels in today's world with the same types and personalities of owners, drivers, and trainers and I found this very entertaining. Any fan of horse racing will especially love this book. If you're looking for a Disney ending, beware, this one doesn't end quite the way you would like.
 Good, but not "crazy good" June 11, 2008
4 out of 8 found this review helpful
The story of Dan Patch is a terrific one, and deserves to be told for many reasons, but this book unfortunately reads like an SI article on steroids (no surprise, really). Leerhsen's "pop" bend simply doesn't serve the subject well. (As homework, I'd suggest that he re-read Hillenbrand's "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" for a master class in how it can be done.)
Also, it's too bad that Leerhsen isn't more able to downplay his apparent distain for Midwesterners throughout the narrative or control his snarky "insider" asides. It just doesn't add to the tale.
My biggest fear is that this is a simply story that waited too long to be fully told...eyewitnesses are dead, earlier attempts to chronicle the life and legend of Dan Patch are woefully underwhelming, records (and memories) are sketchy.
Dan Patch deserves better.
"Make your blood boil?...Well, I should say."
 DAN PATCH-CRAZY GOOD June 9, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
THIS BOOK TAKES YOU BACK TO A TIME IN AMERICA WHEN HORSE WAS KING,THE AUTHOR REALLY DID HIS HOMEWORK AND THE RE-CREATIONS MAKE YOU FEEL LIKE YOU ARE THERE.EVEN A BIG DAN PATCH FAN LIKE MYSELF,LEARNED A FEW NEW THINGS ABOUT THE HORSE,HIS OWNER AND THAT TIME IN AMERICA.ITS A VERY GOOD READ AND COULD EASILY BE SCRIPTED INTO A MOVIE.DAN PATCH WAS REALLY THE FIRST ATHLETE MARKETED TO SELL PRODUCTS AND SELL HE DID,YOU WILL WANT TO READ HIS AMAZING STORY.
A must read for anyone June 8, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is some book and some story! It is a must read for the harness racing fan, but it is also a must read for the marketing student, the electronic media executive, and for anyone who likes a great biography.
Leehrsen writes so well, the story reaches out to everyone.
Dan Patch was something else. Did he know how to create a buzz a century ago?!!!
Entertaining, Enlightening, Engaging May 30, 2008
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
Crazy Good is just plain good. Even if the only horses you've ever seen have policemen on them, you will enjoy this story of a superstar who just happened to be a horse.
Dan Patch, the star of this book, is unblemished and brilliant, but the people around him? Maybe not so much. Hence the captivating story.
Leerhsen tells the tale of this unlikely hero, born as he was with no expectations and a physical deformity to boot. He keeps the reader entranced through the emergence of Dan's brilliance and the story of how he draws hundreds of thousands of fans a year. The Beatles had nothing on Dan Patch.
Get this book for Father's Day, for Flag Day. Get it for any time you want to leave the past behind and allow yourself to be pulled in by the magnetism of a horse who lived 100 years ago.
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