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Winter Dreams: A Novel

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Winter Dreams is one of the best novels I have read that also happens to be about golf. Like most of us, Ross Lansdale, the protagonist is not a good golfer, but it nevertheless is important in his life. Golf is a thread that connects his otherwise empty and lonely life until...

I don't want to give the plot away, but I do want to explain why this book is valuable. (1) Ross is a good man who has bad things happen to him, but never ceases to be human. He struggles through several challenges in his life and always struggles on. (2)The clouds don't suddenly lift and everything become wonderful. This is good in a book; life is not a bowl of cherries, eh? (3) But the best thing about this book is that it gets at the essential sadness that is within many of us, without becoming sappy, preachy or melodramatic. (4)It is easy to care about all of the key characters in the book, even the ones who act badly. They have their own motivations which have nothing to do with wanting to cause pain. A rare quality in even good books.(5) And finally, I received several good tips which seem to be helping my struggling golf game.

In conclusion, so many books on golf come off as mystical or are written about great golfers. It is wonderful to have a book about a hacker, who gets real joy from just trying to play and for the higher honor of friendship.

This novel touches many grand themes in extraordinary ways. Well written with flashes of brilliance. Well worth reading.

When searching through Amazon for the last year and a half for books on golf, Scotland golf, links golf and the history of golf....I realized that I was starting to run out of non-fiction titles and came across this book. I knew it was fiction, but thought that I would have a 'go' at it.

Frankly, I shouldn't knock the book because I didn't like it...It just didn't suit my interest. The only knock on it would be that it is a love story - with a little bit of golf involved...and just a hint of St. Andrews. If you are using search words like - Scotland, golf, etc...This book pops up. Make sure to know what you are getting...

There are only a handful of titles that I have found on fiction / golfing....This would be one of them....

Enjoy or not....