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Quarterback of the Future

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I really had thought reading novels was a valid use of my time. I have been an avid reader for 20 years and I assume I have spent a good part of my life reading. However, the moment I picked up Florio's book, I knew that the past 20 years of my life had been a total waste. Not only haven't I put it down since, but I've had the text printed on the walls of my house and tattooed onto my body, so no matter what, I can have this literary masterpiece with me. I threw out all of my other books, movies, games, even my TV, radio, wife, and children. A definite must-read.

Quarterback of the Future is a novel with an interesting story line for any audience, regardless of your enthusiasm for football or sports. In fact, there is enough complexity in the story line to capture any interest-- a nice balance between factual and fantasy.

The complexity comes in story and character development that draws the reader into the novel without a lot of complication within the first chapter. Mike Florio does a great job at setting the scene of present day college era athletic and social activities, and a contrasting setting of a fictional 1960 professional footbal organization. The depth of the plot is manifested by multiple character dilemas that are varied and easy to follow, but increasingly more interesting as the story reaches its end.

I read the title of this book was immediately blown away. Not only is it a play on "Back To The Future" but the story also revolves around football! It just doesn't get much better. Three words: Moby Dick Butkus. It is rumored to eventually ship with the rerelease of Sweet Pickles so maybe you should hold out on buying it.

All I know is I signed my copy with the name "Poop" in a fit of boredom and it's now worth at least a roll of toilet paper.

I just wanted to say that I went into the camera store the other day and was astounded when two women started making eyes at me and started flirting with me. Amazing. It was so funny how they were acting...Then all the women at work have started being VERY nice to me--ALL SINCE I STARTED CARRYING AROUND FLORIO'S BOOK!

This tome is paramount to the greatest thing ever written. Adventure. Time-travel. Football.

This book is not an aphrodisiac but it has increased the quality of my love-life twentyfold. From the moment you open its sleek cover its words will dance off the page and into your heart. Five Stars.

Mike Florio's "Quarterback of the Future" was one of the most thrilling books I have read, not to mention the hardest to put down. Florio's knowledge of the NFL, both past and present (and his prophesies for the future) show in this book and make the storyline interesting. A twist dealing with a time warp only adds to the excitement, with an exciting climax and ending topping of the book. I would suggest this book to ANYONE, whether a fan or not of football (though diehard NFL fans MUST read this book!!!).

As far-fetched as this sounds, this book is Monday Night Football meets Somewhere in Time, and IT WORKS. Florio obviously is a huge football fan, and it shows. The detail in his descriptions of everything from training to practices to the game action is reminiscent of Clancy's descriptions of military hardware and tactics. But Florio may be a better storyteller than Clancy. This book never gets bogged down in the details that Florio provides in abundance. Florio makes you care about the characters and propels you to the end of the book. If you like football AND you like fiction that makes you think, you owe it to yourself to check out this book.

When one considers the finest written word, one must first consider Shakespeare, Hemingway, Proust, and now Florio.

The 21st century's next super-scribe, Florio weaves a provacative web of words that is impossible to escape. I predict that many of the verses from this Masterpiece will be added to the next versions of the King James Bible and New Testament.

Read this book, and almighty God will shine his light of wisdom upon your cranium.

I haven't read this book and don't intend to. Mike Florio does top notch work though and I'm sure the book is really, really good.

To NFL fans who regularly surf the net for great football news, the name Mike Florio is synonomous with "Fred Edelstein" and "Len Pasquarelli". Florio is the James Callendar of the NFL - a rumormonger without scruples. No "scoop" is unfit for Florio to print - even if it's completely untrue.

Florio's book is much the same, unfortunately. Quarterback of the Future is very much a hodgepodge of lame and tired cliches about race mixed in with a pinch of science fiction. It doesn't work.

It's very difficult to pull of a quality sports novel. Many great writers have tried and failed. Florio is not a great writer, and he too fails. Miserably.