/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.13281688]

what'd ya think?

cute homage to IJ, but ending a bit too disney tier

[Anonymous No.13282057]

>>13281688
It's been on my read list for a while. Robert Coover's The Universal Baseball Association and Philip Roth's The Great American Novel are both good books directly and loosely about Baseball.

[Anonymous No.13282168]

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/05/a-swing-and-a-miss/308943/

[Anonymous No.13282174]

>>13281688
I read that one along time ago. Way too much gay shit in it.

[Anonymous No.13282251]

>>13282174
dang was about to pick this up because of my love of baseball, but supporting globohomo is a no go for me

[Anonymous No.13282363]

It was good. Baseball/college books is a frame for an investigation of male friendships, relationships, etc. Would recommend, but it's a young person's book.

>>13282168
Agree with the industry hype argument but that's how business is done, though tangential to TAOF's actual quality. I think that Pella's intelligence and laymanship can exist in the same right. Henry's "still dithering around" reflects exactly the humanity Myers overlooks. He fails to appreciate the book's developmental slowness, and Westish as an incubation chamber for real people.

[Anonymous No.13282386]

The Natural and Underworld are also /baseball-core/

[Anonymous No.13282456]

>>13281688
>huge brush script font
>"a novel"
Yeah, no thanks

[Anonymous No.13282459]

Take away the mainstream appeal by wringing the novel of bullshit, magnifying the theme of monomania and skewing the psychology of the main character to the darkest extent and...you get Stephen Florida, a Div III college wrestler, and a far more interesting character

It’s like TAOF, except no flowery normie plot arc, just suffering, suffering, and more suffering, the end

[Anonymous No.13284264]

Anyone here read Michael Chabon's Summerland? Is it good?