The Downhill Lie: A Hacker’s Return to the Ruinous Sport (Vintage)
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Bestselling writer Carl Hiaasen wisely give up golfing in 1973. But the little ambitions exclude to die, as well as as the years upheld as well as the memories of slices as well as hooks faded, it dawned upon Carl which there competence be the single thing in hold up he could do improved in center age than he could as the youth. So progressively he ventured behind to the rolling, frustrating immature mountainous country of the golf course, where he ultimately—and foolishly—agreed to contest in the country-club contest opposite players who can essentially strike the ball.
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Review by Mary Whipple for The Downhill Lie: A Hacker’s Return to a Ruinous Sport (Vintage)
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Returning to golf thirty-two years after he gave it up, Carl Hiaasen, writer of waggish mysteries, shares his struggles to relearn a diversion of golf as good as maybe, even, sense to have fun with it. Golf is not a healthy “fit” for Hiaasen–”I was only as restless, consumed, unreflective, fatalistic, as good as emotionally unequipped to fool around golf in my fifties as we was in my teens,” he admits. He starts “on a trail to perdition” in November, 2002, when Sports Illustrated asks him to go to Barbados to write a funny square about a print fire for a swimsuit issue, as good as he ends up personification golf with his editor during a downtime.
Unfortunately, for Hiaasen, he plays good sufficient which he decides to fool around golf (with used clubs) behind home with friends, as good as shortly gets held up in a golf-mania of anticipating a undiluted equipment, celebration of a mass books by gurus similar to Bob Rotella, David Leadbetter, as good as fable Harvey Penick, subscribing to golf magazines, as good as shopping anything which competence urge his game–from pendants to wear around his neck (to revoke stress) to capsules of herbal supplements (to urge concentration).
Describing himself as a “reclusive, neurotic, doubt-plagued duffer,” he keeps a diary for roughly 6 hundred days, obsessively recording, mostly in tainted denunciation as good as off-the-wall imagery, a rounds he plays with his friends, together with Mike Lupica as good as CBS’s David Feherty. Admitting which he suffers from “Wildly Unrealistic Expectations,” he reflects a fears as good as frustrations of all commencement golfers when he 1) has to fool around in front of strangers, 2) has to fool around a latest march for a initial time, as good as 3) agrees to fool around in his initial tournament.
On a some-more concept note, he continues his hoax of politicians for unwell to strengthen a sourroundings in Florida, a thesis of many of his mysteries, as good as he talks about a expansion of golf communities as good as a detriment of animal habitats. He reminds a reader, however, which golf courses have been not all bad–they could have been “two thousand, 0 lot-line houses.” Hilarious in his descriptions of his efforts to sense a game, he is additionally critical about his frustrations with it. He suffers, he tells us from “the many erosive elemental of golf, a S*ck Factor.” When his mother as good as seven-year-old son take lessons as good as adore a game, Hiaasen is reminded of his own golf practice with his father, as good as notwithstanding his “own ridiculous as good as sensational tribulations,” he starts to see “warmer days ahead.” Perhaps he competence grow to adore a diversion as good as share it with his family. n Mary Whipple
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Review by Roger Mees for The Downhill Lie: A Hacker’s Return to the Ruinous Sport (Vintage)
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This discourse as well as Franz Lidz’s even wittier Fairway to Hell: Around the World in eighteen Holes have been the dual funniest golf books we have ever review (and we have review only about each book created upon golf). Curiously, Downhill Lie as well as Fairway were published roughly simultaneously. Hiaasen does some-more than keep the diary about his midlife lapse to the game. It’s the deftly created as well as infrequently sad demeanour during golf, marriage, tellurian inlet as well as life. During his credentials (more than 500 days) for the nation bar tournament, Hiassen sinks the golf transport in to the lake. He uses his golf clubs as the arms opposite assertive rats as well as takes “focus inducing” Mind Drive capsules. He sees an alligator sunning himself nearby the fairway as the great omen, though has the less-than-cosmic knowledge with the Q-Link, the match “that was pronounced to reason miraculous powers.” He brags about in his great scores, frets about the arriving member-guest contest during the Vero Beach, Fla., course, as well as amuses his golf instructors during lessons. He remembers his time personification golf with his father, as well as revels in his son’s seductiveness — as well as bent — in golf. But some-more mostly than not, Hiaasen turns his quick mind upon himself, endearing himself to hackers immature as well as old. If we suffer Downhill Lie, you’ll definitely adore Fairway To Hell. we rarely suggest both.
Review by John C. Sherwood for The Downhill Lie: A Hacker’s Return to a Ruinous Sport (Vintage)
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Carl Hiaasen’s furious as well as smart novels about Florida lowlifes have supposing copiousness of party for both my mother as well as me over a years. we energetically approaching a attainment of “The Downhill Lie.” I’m a over golfer myself as well as suspicion which this story competence rekindle seductiveness in a sport. It didn’t.
As expected, Hiaasen provides a small smart observations, though these have been most as well rare. This book is small some-more than a diary of hacker over dual years, as well as there is small party worth in that, unless a single finds “I had 3 pars in a initial 5 holes though afterwards had 3 triples upon a behind 9 as well as wound up sharpened 97″ to be fascinating reading.
Hiaasen tries to set up a small tragedy as he describes a credentials for his initial bar tournament, though a surplus episodes which lead to this consummate had me often checking how most pages we had left prior to we reached a finish of a story. That’s not a great sign: it’s similar to checking your watch in a center of a film to see when your ransom will arrive.
This book could simply have been created by a CPA (“True Adventures in Accounting?”) as well as yield about a same volume of interest.
Review by 07mom09 for The Downhill Lie: A Hacker’s Return to a Ruinous Sport (Vintage)
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I am a single of those people who have “fun” personification golf. we am tied together to a golfer similar to Mr. Hiaasen, who can’t see a fun in it. we found his accounts of entrance behind to a diversion waggish as well as insightful.
Review by Sharyn R. Moss for The Downhill Lie: A Hacker’s Return to the Ruinous Sport (Vintage)
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This is the good audio book – as well as we do not even fool around golf. Some of it is approach over my conduct though the bard is the smashing writer, has the good clarity of amusement as well as is the many beguiling narrator. I’ve review or listened to roughly all of his books as well as he is a single of favorites.