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5.0 out of 5 stars
Highly entertaining for all,
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This review is from: Playing for Pizza (Audio CD)
Listend to this on a long drive, listed to it again with my Dad on another road trip (he was a football coach and liked it so much he kept my copy). Bought this copy for my brother. I actually got my copy from a friend-gread listen/read-you don't need to like football-a lot on the food and culture in Italy. I recommend it if you are planning on traveling to Italy any time soon because you need to be prepared for the food culture there and this entertaining listen dives into the food culture and makes you want to go just to experience food and people.
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Playing for Pizza is yet another winner for John Grisham. My husband is no audio book fan yet on a road trip he became completely involved in this book, SO, I say grab it if you can.
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pallid cliche-ridden tale,
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This review is from: Playing for Pizza (Audio CD)
I listened to this book during a long road trip. The reading is fine though some of the accents and voices are a little weird.As to the book, I found it a strange mixture between a traditional sports story in which our hero triumphs just as the final whistle blows and a travelogue about Italy lifted piecemeal from a guide book. Rick is a 3rd-string NFL quarterback who comes on for 11 disastrous minutes at the end of the AFC championship game and throws three interceptions, thereby earning the title of the biggest goat in sports history. With no prospects, he takes a job in the semi-professional Italian football league for the lowly Parma Panthers -- and leads them to the Italian "superbowl" -- an event which has no interest whatsoever for 99.9 percent of Italians. The book began with promise. Rick is a narrow-minded jerk who knows nothing apart from football and cares about even less. I thought this would be a classic tale of a narrow-minded American awakening to the wonders of the world under the magical influence of Italy. Rick does awaken to some small extent -- he appreciates Italian food and tolerates Italian history and architecture -- but he remains a strangely uncompelling figure, lacking in passion. The football descriptions of the Panthers' struggles against the Rome Gladiators and the "mighty" Bergamo Lions are mind-numbingly detailed to anyone who has little interest in the gridiron. Grisham however does bring out the brutality of the game -- leaving the reader in little doubt that win or lose, Rick certainly faces early-onset dementia and a miserable life after the game. Grisham is particularly stiff and unconvincing when describing women and the relations between men and women. His sex scenes have less allure than a third and three at the 40 yard line. The descriptions of food and churches and castles are straight from Frommers. The book finishes on a curiously unresolved note. Rick has no idea what to do with his life -- but by that time we had reached our destination and couldn't really care.
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