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Muck City: Winning And Losing In Football's Forgotten Town (2012)

by Bryan Mealer(Favorite Author)

3.69 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0307888622 (ISBN13: 9780307888624)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Crown Archetype

review 1: It isn't often that I have abandoned a book over my years...but this is one that I just have no interest in finishing. I can't tell you how frustrated I am with this book. The premise is awesome. The cover is awesome. I couldn't wait to book talk this "boy book" to my junior high students. Or...not so much. My junior high boys are not going to care about the history of this area, the soil type which lends itself to growing specific crops which in turn lead to immigrants who moved to this area. They aren't going to care about who is related to whom, who slept with who and then later found out that their child is a half-brother to the kid he's been best friends with since elementary school, and on and on. If this was a book about football, like it is advertised, both... more me and my students would've been on board, but at least for now, I'm giving up on it.
review 2: This book could have been like FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS if Mealer had given it one more revision, but what it loses to almost-but-not-quite writing, it gains back with reporting, i.e., with its story. As a football town, Belle Glade is like no other place in the football world. And as an American town, it's like no other place in the country. If Col. Walter E. Kurtz ran a football program, he would run it in Belle Glade. less

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