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Kiss It Good-Bye: The Mystery, The Mormon, And The Moral Of The 1960 Pittsburgh Pirates (2010)

by John Moody(Favorite Author)

3.43 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1606411497 (ISBN13: 9781606411490)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Shadow Mountain

review 1: Ugh. In the first 50 pages, Moody has argued that a homogeonized society is better, that nobody born after 1930 is worth a damn, and that beating children with belts produces better adults. What else do we have here... Lamenting on today's "moral relativism" - check. Writing about why Mitt Romney would make a fine president because he's Mormon and they are "the best examples of clean-cut, family oriented citizens in the United States and around the world" - check. Complaints about people who mention hardships they have faced because of their ethnicity or sexuality... In the 1930s, if your family pet bit you, you rubbed dirt on it and moved on, but today we all apparently get counseling instead. Huh? Somehow PETA, the ACLU and No Child Left Behind are also brought up. Toda... morey's children are growing up rotten because parents are selfish and not, apparently, because of the overwhelming data which shows the post-Reagan dollar doesn't get working class families as much as it used to. Seriously, what the fuck is this guy writing about? This is 50 pages of half-brained tangents thus far. I'm honestly not even sure the author knows where he is or what he's writing about. Did I mention an earlier page in which he refers to himslf in both the first AND third person?I think Moody's next book is about North Carolina furniture makers. In it, he will segue into a three page rant against the evils of gay marriage, apropos of nothing. Go fuck yourself, John Moody. This is the work of a hack.Folks interested in the actual story would be better suited checking out the SABR biography project.AVOID THIS BOOK. You have been warned.Chapter 2More complaining from Moody on page 49 - an out-of-place, contributing nothing to the story, jab at teacher's unions. On page 53, a revelation that he was "scared of everything" as a child. As an adult, he still appears to be scared of anything that isn't a white heterosexual conservative Catholic male. So not much changed for him. Sad when you're given 60-plus years to develop and never do.Chapter 4page 92 - Moody says he played in a "pee wee" league as a child, a term he says would never be used today because modern children have fragile egos. (A) Stupid baseless comment. (B) The term "pee wee" IS used today, most notably in youth football leagues, hardly the stuff of fragile childhood. If Moody didn't live in his own version of reality, he might have known that.
review 2: I really enjoyed this book. I enjoyed how the author combined his own story into the narrative of the 1960 World Series Champion Pittsburg Pirates. In many ways, I have similar memories from my childhood, so for me this added an extra layer of meaning for me. I also enjoyed leaning about the life of Vernon Law, whose life proves that simple faith and goodness can make a difference in the world. I would suggest this to anyone needing a throwback sports novel. less

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