Daniel James Brown Talks Boys in the Boat

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• CFetters_Nacho_Lover Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 31,993

  December 2023

  Thanks Taft!

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• YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,182

  December 2023

  One of my former teammates thinks Brown is not a great write and if David Halberstam had been the teller of this story it would have been the greatest sports book of all time.
  
  My response, was Winners, Win.

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• RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 113,039

  December 2023

  I thought Halberstam was a tad over rated. His book on the Walton Blazers was a bit pedantic and boring

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• YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,182

  December 2023

  RaceBannon said:

  I thought Halberstam was a tad over rated. His book on the Walton Blazers was a bit pedantic and boring

  Alternatively, @RaceBannon my buddy nominated Jeff Pearlman (author of Showtime) to re-write the book.
  
  I like most of Halberstam's books and his work The Amateurs is the definitive row peter puffer book.
  
  @CFetters_Nacho_Lover The Coldest Winter if the best work on Korea.

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• PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 47,836

  December 2023

  Timothy Egan would have been a better teller of the tale.
  
  A good Spokane boy like Joe Rantz
  
  

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• DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 67,833

  December 2023

  RaceBannon said:

  I thought Halberstam was a tad over rated. His book on the Walton Blazers was a bit pedantic and boring

  Reviews:
  
  "Pedantic and boring". -- Race Bannon, Duckfighter Illustrated

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