I just started reading "3 Nights In August," which I received as a gift. The first few pages are every bit as bad as I feared. Anyone wanna convince me that I should keep reading?

Give it to your local library to sell for 50 cents some weekend.

One book that I was surprised to give up on in recent years, considering how much I loved "Kavalier and Clay," was "Summerland" by Michael Chabon. I wanted to like it but just found it meandering and dull.

I visit her often and pretty much am a lurker. I know I need to get more involved than just reading.

Let me know. Thanks.

BC

different off topic,
first year records since Walter Alston:
Smokey 92-62 1954
Tommy 98-64 1977
Russell 88-74 1997
Johnson 77-85 1999
'Dead to me' 86-76
Grady ??-??

Not that those mean anything at all....

I liked FNL too. If you're not really into football or high school sports, then it might not be that interesting to read. I think Bissinger embellished alot about FNL, judging from the reaction the book got in Odessa.

The movie FNL is a good flik tho.

3 I believe my local library is your place of work. Where do I ditch the book?

Thanks for the suggestions, everbody. I'm going to read as much "3 Nights" as I can on the train home tonight (I don't have anything else with me) and if things don't improve, well, I guess I know where to find some other good baseball reading.

I thought that all 50 were there.

So what did he do?

"Libra" was a weird one though. It actually makes Oliver Stone's "JFK" look like it has a plot. I know, hard to believe, but somehow DeLillo pulls it off...

I prefer "Plaschkegan"

What a great line. I'm gonna use that.

Just finished Kavalier and Clay and loved it. Anyone else read his "The Final Solution?" I devoured that one in about an hour.

And, for what it's worth, I rebranded myself in honor of my favorite Dodger after getting a new laptop that couldn't remember my old login. I was Blue Thrue & Thrue.

What sort of seat will Irving Zeiger get?

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05087/478631.stm

It's unfortunate for the writers in Jon's post, but it looks like this post is turning in to, "list the books you hate." My contribution: was there ever a worse book than The God of Small Things? I read every page and, should I ever have the opportunity, I will help finance the construction of a dam in India, just to spite Arundhati Roy.

Hmm. I'm not sure this comment advances my claim to sobriety.

No worries. No one took that claim seriously anyway...

You have chosen for your league to take part in a live online draft on Sat Mar 25 8:45pm PST.

http://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/b1

"In the National League, the Pirates are at least intriguing because of their young pitching, and the Dodgers will be better because they can't be any less healthy. But not everyone is sold on Dodgers GM Ned Colletti's offseason moves. "They're still sort of a mishmash," said an NL executive, "and I'm not sure they have enough pitching."

If only they got to pitch against the Pirates offense...

I've seen that one. I believe that's where the gang goes to the Reverend Jim's apartment to see what he did with all the money he inherited from his father.

I believe he bought a whole bunch of TVs with hookups to every channel available and was watching the Delaware legislature.

Not that there is a Delaware.

Last well-reviewed book that should've been good but I set it down: Toni Morrison's "Jazz"

I keep asking people, "Why haven't you read this yet?": Fup by Jim Dodge

Worst book I have ever finished and in my humble opinion the worst book ever written: "Hannibal" by Thomas Harris

Most popular book among my students at King/Drew Medical Magnet High School: "Confessions of a Video Vixen" (sigh)

I nod knowingly a lot. It's all in the way you sell it.

Of course, that won't work here now.

41 I really didn't like Jazz, either. Especially compared to other Morrison stuff.

I got hounded by my friends for this, but I never could read the Hobbit all the way through. It took me years to get the gumption to read Lord of the Rings.

Libra and JFK in the same sentence make me think of J.M Coetzee's 'In the Heart of the Country' which was pretty agonizing, but at least interesting. Sort of Beckett meets Heideger told by Kafka.

A problem Plaschkeites do not suffer from.

And I thought it was just an English teacher trick.

18 - I didn't get through Underworld either (though I loved "White Noise" when I was in college). I brought Underworld on my solo trip to Scandanavia in 1998. After reading the prologue and barely getting through the next chapter, I left it behind some lockers in the Stockholm train station. I didn't want to carry around such a mixed bag of a book. I figured if it was there after I completed my Scandanavian loop, I'd take it back with me on the plane and try again.

But it was gone. I ended up spending some nice time with Ibsen.

37 - I've seen all episodes of Taxi - that one was very memorable, though not as memorable as "dancing the can-can wearing a green shirt and a catcher's mask."

Taxi > Becker

or

Becker > Taxi?

No Molina! We will get one young starter next year.

Then we must never meet.

61 - Hobos, you can trade for Lieberthal anytime as far as I'm concerned!

What Barbara Walters says when putting together a "Touched By An Angel" reunion show.

Sort of. He's working for the Padres as a scout.

Now that I think about it maybe Larabee on get Smart was his last name too. I always just assumed it was his first name.

Barbara Babcock and I used to take our cats to the same vet.

Barbara Babcock is very tall.

I've noticed that he has a fixation with number tabs.

I spent some time with Best of Dodger Thoughts last night. Had never read the "Goodwill Ambassador" Todd Zeile piece -- great premise and hysterical execution.

And I'd never seen this: "'If they trade me to another big league team, there's no problem,' Mondesi said Wednesday. 'It would be difficult if they traded me to a football or basketball team . . . .'"

"Mr. Smart, your shoe is ringing"

I thought that it would be cool to introduce my six year old son to a guy who played for the Dodgers. He has been to a couple of Dodger games with me and is starting real baseball (no tee) next month.

Despite his eyes being blood red, Darryl was polite. Conversation was very brief because I didn't want to interrupt his evening out with mom too much. Actually, Darryl's mom was a very nice gal.

I was going to post something on the Griddle about the Mets having a 20th anniversary celebration of the 1986 team, but was unable to write anything that didn't have four-letter words in it and I feared getting a bunch of hate e-mail from Mets fans.

I feel better.

Maybe the head of Samsung found out my problems with my cell phone.

The weird thing is when Toaster gets into that feed and you get a reference to your own post.

That or he's is sympathetic towards you in regard to your feelings about Daryl Strawberry.