Hockey Legends [Hardcover]

Jeff Jacobs (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 120 pages
• Publisher: MetroBooks (NY) (September 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1567992048
• ISBN-13: 978-1567992045
• Product Dimensions: 10.3 x 10.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,982,969 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A trite examination of alternative lifestyles, December 2, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Hockey Legends (Hardcover)

As most fans of hockey and SoSH know, Jeff Jacobs always brings a different perspective to all of his writing endeavors. This tome, one detailing his personal decent into the unsavoury world of male prostition and child slavery, is no different.

Whether he is writing about his affinity for scatological videos or his consuming envy of minority interns, he just cannot escape the fact the while he may be an equal on the vitriolic scale, he just doesn't have the ability to equal the book sales of CHB.

Some, like Lanternjaw, say that the Courant is a vile rag, but while I normally would throw it out, when a Jacobs column is featured, I find it imminently useful for lining my cat's litter box.

As Jacobs is quoted on the dust cover of this book, "If I can't match CHB or Buckley, I'll remain in Hartford and expose myself in elementary school yards."

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Author wouldn't know a hockey puck if it hit him in the face, December 3, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Hockey Legends (Hardcover)

Jeff Jacobs is possibly the least talented sportswriter in the world, and I say this as a resident of a town that hosts the NY Daily News and NY Post. It is now my goal in life to find Jeff Jacobs and waste an amount of his time equal to the amount of time I spent reading his book, which was approximately 30 minutes until I decided my fireplace needed more kindling. This was back in June.

The Biblical book of Job is easier to read than this hack. My 5-year-old nephew writes more intelligently. If it weren't for spell checkers in the editing process his sentences probably wouldn't have periods. Or spaces between words.

On top of all this, Jeff Jacobs is a bad human being, who would likely use his position as columnist in a hartford newspaper to personally attack the lifestyle and hobbies of a coworker just out of spite, and likely because that coworker refused to share secrets with him. Not that this has ever occurred, of course.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Has Jeff Jacobs ever even watched a hockey game?, December 4, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Hockey Legends (Hardcover)

Terrible. Easily the worst hockey book ever written. Ranking the Detroit octopus as one of his 10 greatest blue-liners? Unbelievable.

Mine came with pages missing.