Billy Sunday: A Novel
Registered by rem_ABK-578523 on 3/3/2010
2 journalers for this copy...
While I was exploring the Internet to find out if I wanted to read the current best-seller, "A Reliable Wife" (which I read last month), I discovered a couple of other books, including "Wisconsin Death Trip" and this book, "Billy Sunday". "Billy Sunday", like "A Reliable Wife", was also based on the 1970's cult classic book "Wisconsin Death Trip". "Wisconsin Death Trip", in turn, is based on some 30,000 photographs taken at the turn of the center by a gentleman photographer named Van Shaick.
Supposedly, I read somewhere, that when "Billy Sunday: A Novel" first came out, The New York Times called it The Great American Novel -- yet it was written by an Australian! That piqued my interest, so I forked over $3.00 for a used copy and decided to give it a go. BTW, it turns out that this novel has nothing to do with the historical Billy Sunday -- baseball player turned evangelical preacher -- it seems to be just a name the author kind of randomly picked out of a hat.
Unfortunatley, I found this book to be very slow. It wasn't holding my interest, and I thought it needed an editor to keep the author from repeating himself. Although the plot conatins elements of spirit photography and fatal disease epidemics, it seems mostly to be about a character named Frederick Jackson Turner who showed up in Wisconsin to go fishing and ended up having an intimate love affair with a native American ghost woman (she smells like feces, but tastes like fish). Even that wasn't enough to keep me reading the whole book, and I gave up on it about 1/2 way through.
If you have serendiptiously discovered this book, perhaps it will appeal to you for reasons that it did not appeal to me. And if you are so inclined, make a journal entry and let me know you found it and what you thought of it. Thanks and happy reading!
Supposedly, I read somewhere, that when "Billy Sunday: A Novel" first came out, The New York Times called it The Great American Novel -- yet it was written by an Australian! That piqued my interest, so I forked over $3.00 for a used copy and decided to give it a go. BTW, it turns out that this novel has nothing to do with the historical Billy Sunday -- baseball player turned evangelical preacher -- it seems to be just a name the author kind of randomly picked out of a hat.
Unfortunatley, I found this book to be very slow. It wasn't holding my interest, and I thought it needed an editor to keep the author from repeating himself. Although the plot conatins elements of spirit photography and fatal disease epidemics, it seems mostly to be about a character named Frederick Jackson Turner who showed up in Wisconsin to go fishing and ended up having an intimate love affair with a native American ghost woman (she smells like feces, but tastes like fish). Even that wasn't enough to keep me reading the whole book, and I gave up on it about 1/2 way through.
If you have serendiptiously discovered this book, perhaps it will appeal to you for reasons that it did not appeal to me. And if you are so inclined, make a journal entry and let me know you found it and what you thought of it. Thanks and happy reading!
Journal Entry 2 by rem_ABK-578523 at dr. edwards dentist office in San Antonio, Texas USA on Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Released 14 yrs ago (3/30/2010 UTC) at dr. edwards dentist office in San Antonio, Texas USA
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On a table in the waiting room.
On a table in the waiting room.
I have serendipitiously discovered this book. Picked it up at Dr Edward's office while waiting for my son to finish his dental appointment. I love books and thought this was fun-- to participate in the secret lives of books. Have started the book, but too busy to really get into it. It's moving a little slow, but plan to read it before I set it free at some wilderness.
CAUGHT IN SAN ANTONIO TEXAS
CAUGHT IN SAN ANTONIO TEXAS