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[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by barely_legal
I haven't read Fever Pitch or his essay collections, but I was very disappointed in How to be Good and A Long Way Down. I loved About a Boy and High Fidelity so maybe my expectations were too high.

I will probably read Fever Pitch eventually just because I haven't completely given up on him yet, but my hopes are not high.

I liked the first two I read (High Fidelity and About a Boy), and I sort of lost interest in him after How to Be Good (which isn't to say I didn't like it, but I just didn't really feel like picking up the next two). Fever Pitch is sort of different, in that it's autobiographical and historical. I don't know much about soccer at all, much less how the leagues in the UK work, but I thought his writing was engaging enough to catch the gyst of what he was talking about. I also know, to some extent, the agony of being a fan. I think that can be pretty universal, even for the cricket hooligans.

ETA: I really liked the book About A Boy, and I was fairly irritated that the movie didn't live up to the book. It pissed me off significantly that there was no mention of Nirvana at all in the movie version.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by Alex_de_Large
Wow indeed.

ETA: FSC truly sucks.

Has anyone read How Soccer Explains the World?

[barely_legal]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
I also know, to some extent, the agony of being a fan. I think that can be pretty universal, even for the cricket hooligans.

I'm not sure I will be able to relate to that since I'm not a sports fan at all. Maybe I will be able to analogize it to rooting for Michael Knight to win Project Runway and then suffering the agony of seeing his actual collection.

Or I can compare it to rooting for Janelle to win TWO seasons of Big Brother and watching her fuck things up in the final 3 two summers in a row.

Maybe I'll read this book after all.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Alex_de_Large
Wow indeed.

ETA: FSC truly sucks.

instant replay rule- offsides? it's a bad angle but close.

[LessinSF]

Originally posted by barely_legal
I'm not sure I will be able to relate to that since I'm not a sports fan at all. Maybe I will be able to analogize it to rooting for Michael Knight to win Project Runway and then suffering the agony of seeing his actual collection.

Or I can compare it to rooting for Janelle to win TWO seasons of Big Brother and watching her fuck things up in the final 3 two summers in a row.

Maybe I'll read this book after all.

But how did you feel to learn that New York is getting her own show?!!?

[Alex_de_Large]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
instant replay rule- offsides? it's a bad angle but close.

Drogba was offsides, but was not involved in the play, so I think it was a good no-call.

[dtb]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
I agree with you 100%. I was recently in Chicago and found that I have grown to love the restriction on smoking in bars. I went out a few times and the smell of smoke sinks in so deep that the coat I was wearing smelled like an ashtray a week later.

It is amazing to me that New York is automatically the model of everything wrong in the world. It's like, if people who lived outside of New York didn't have New York to point to whenever they were mad about anything, they wouldn't know what the fuck to do. Hell, all you have to do is watch Fringey's reaction whenever anyone even mentions New York. "Hate it! Mean people! Don't ever go there! Don't want to!" Etc., ad nauseum.

Frankly, I don't really care. I just don't get why this place is the focus of so many complaints.

TM

Jealousy.

duh.

Especially fringey.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Alex_de_Large
Drogba was offsides, but was not involved in the play, so I think it was a good no-call.

Lampard's on. No doubt about that.

[dtb]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Starbucks is fortunate to hear only the ringing of cash registers.

My god, man. You are a bottomless well of Simpsons references.

[dtb]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
I voted today.

And then I took my leftover Halloween candy (full sized Hersheys and M&Ms) to the fire station. The local firefighters were happy to take them off my hands. I made them promise to come extra-quick if I ever really need them.

Oooooh. You are a crafty one, missy. I think my local FD is going to be getting a sa-weet visit from me soon. Do you mind if I forget to mention it was your idea?

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
I'm about to finish The Polysyllabic Spree. . . . I also love the name The Polysyllabic Spree and it reminds me of sitting in Zilcher Park trying to listen to [who was it, who was it] someone else over the din of 80-someodd chorus-gown-clad-singers. Good times.

I liked that book, and only was sorry that it was over so soon.

[tmdiva]

Originally posted by LessinSF
But how did you feel to learn that New York is getting her own show?!!?

That crazy-ass bitch is getting no viewage from me, that's for sure.

It was nice to see one of those on-air reunions where they seemed to have actually missed each other.

So when was Flav's newest offspring conceived, and with whom, NFH?

tm

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Has anyone read How Soccer Explains the World?

Yes. Not the first book I'd recommend, but it's not like you have a lot of choices if you want to read about soccer. More here. In this general vein, I would recommend Bill Buford's Among the Thugs, about soccer hooligans, unless you don't want to read about graphic violence.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by dtb
Oooooh. You are a crafty one, missy. I think my local FD is going to be getting a sa-weet visit from me soon. Do you mind if I forget to mention it was your idea?

Do you think they will promise to come extra quick for you? Will their hoses be long enough when you're in need? Are there any other stupid fireman jokes I can make? Am I this bored that I refuse to stop typing? How fast do you think I can type with my penis? How fast do you think you can type with my penis?

I am exhausted.

[J. Fred Muggs]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
I made them promise to come extra-quick if I ever really need them.

I don't STP, but wouldn't the coming extra-quick obviate your need for them? Or were you talking about needing them for their professional skills?