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If you hate baseball, do not try to read this book. Even if you have Good Reads friends who say they're not interested in baseball but they loved this book, BEWARE. No matter how many glowing reviews you read, you will not like The Art of Fielding if you truly hate baseball the way I do.
Lets get a few things out of the way first: you will be disappointed if you think this entire novel is about baseball. And also those who have never played the game and know the feeling when you step over those chalk lines onto the field may be less inclined to like it. I believe the gents will be g...
Beautiful. Lovely. Funny and smart. I feel like the characters are my friends and I miss them already. I kind of want to give this book to everyone I know.
It was a pleasure watching this story slowly unwind on a small college campus. It is so much more than a baseball book. The characters are fully developed. A great read!
My choice for the 2012 Tournament of Books. A remarkable debut - a beautifully crafted novel in the old-school style, about college and sports and life. It reminded me of college while at the same time being utterly foreign to me. It has some flaws - but the heights it reaches manage to make thos...
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