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 enlarge | Author: Rick Reilly
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Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  101 reviews
Sales Rank: 44889
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 278
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.8
ISBN: 0385488866
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780385488860
ASIN: 0385488866
Publication Date: May 19, 2000
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 even par February 18, 2005
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I liked the book. I like Reilly's style, even as it borrows generously from Jim Murray and Dan Jenkins...I thought the characters were overly broadly drawn..having waited tables at a posh CC outside Washington for 7 summers, I can tell you I never ran into anyone like everyone he describes... the first several chapters, Reilly tries too hard... I almost put the book down... you don't need to make a joke every paragraph...once he got into the very appealing story, the writing got a little tighter... i think Reilly is pretty good at exploring what makes us tick and as such shouldn't feel the need to try to make us laugh every few seconds... this isn't a golf book... it's a book about relationships with golf as its cover... well, done, Rick... next time, write less self-consciously...
 Belly Laugh Funny!!!! December 30, 2004
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Sitting by my wife's bed in the delivery room waiting for our first child to arrive was when I had the pleasure to read this book. It was a very stressful time but in between her labor pains and exhaustion I escaped into this book and laughed (quietly) again. Having played the game since I was very young, I appreciated every descriptive detail of both courses and each character within the story. I have been there and played with each character at one time or another. I highly recommend this book to all golfers and non-golfers alike; it's that good!!! Mommy and baby turned out fine.
FANTASTIC!!!!! A GREAT READ May 21, 2004
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Let me start out by saying that this is the best book I have read since the last Reilly book I picked up (Who's your Caddy?). I'm sure everyone know who Rick Reilly is, he is the ONLY reason to read Sports Illustrated. This novel is no exception to the Reilly Rule (Read anything he writes). I would read the phone-book cover to cover if he wrote it. Missing Links is the story of a group of "chops" that play on the worst muni in the country (Ponky). When I started reading it I was hooked right away, the characters are original and pretty funny as well. The writing is pure Reilly at his best, witty as well as poignant. I found myself laughing out loud on the NYC subway,which got me a few looks from the other passengers. I figured that the book would be just one big laugh. I was wrong there was actually a part or two that got you all misty! Still the events of the book are so funny don't be surprised if you miss your stop on the train or stay up all night to finish the book. My favorite part was how Two-Down got the Lexus! Pure Genius! Just take my word for it and buy it. You will NOT be sorry.
 Gollf nuts will love this book May 2, 2004
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Good book about the kind of golf most people play- not the exclusive country clubs we see featured in golf magazines, but the run down muni's who could use a few extra groundskeepers, a little more grass on the fairways, and a ball washer or two. Reilly does a first rate job of describing the world of a bunch of blue collar hackers, with all their foibles and eccentricities. The plot is well crafted, too, although maybe a little storybook in the end.The one criticism I have of the book is that while he does a good job of including women and ethnic minorities among the regulars at the muni, he resorts to every cheap stereotype imaginable when it comes to describing a couple of homesexual characters. While a writer wouldn't dare use cliches about women, african-americans, or the disabled for cheap laughs or as plot devices anymore, apparently Mr. Reilly sees nothing harmful in portraying gays as sexually deviant, deceitful, lisping caricatures.
An absolute READ THIS BOOK NOW! December 17, 2003
I read this book on a long flight back after burying my mother (an avid golfer) and I laughed the whole way. My trip was the typical international flight of bad food, layovers of epic proportions, seat-mates from hell, bumped seating etc. but didn't care. I laughed from page one, sobbed when I started to run out of pages, and laughed/cried (not a pretty sight) at the end and promptly went straight back to page one while driving frantically to the library to see if he'd written any more books. I've always enjoyed Mr. Reilly's articles in Sports Illustrated and this book is a testament oh his abilities (yes, that's a compliment...no I'm not his wife) as an accomplished writer. I just wish he's write more books!
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