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The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown
This is an Oscarbait sports movie in book form. Which is not a bad thing; it knows what it is and executes on it well. I'm not the target audience, but my extended family absolutely is (ah, the life of a nerd raised among jocks), so I read this mostly to see what they've been raving about.
The story wisely centers itself on Joe Rantz, a man whose actual, 100% true life story reads like a dang Gary Stu fanfic. Shit that happens to Joe:
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This is an Oscarbait sports movie in book form. Which is not a bad thing; it knows what it is and executes on it well. I'm not the target audience, but my extended family absolutely is (ah, the life of a nerd raised among jocks), so I read this mostly to see what they've been raving about.
The story wisely centers itself on Joe Rantz, a man whose actual, 100% true life story reads like a dang Gary Stu fanfic. Shit that happens to Joe:
( Read more... )
