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Title: The Greatest Player Who Never Lived by J. Michael Veron, Buck Schirner ISBN: 1-58788-104-7 Publisher: Brilliance Audio Pub. Date: October, 2000 Format: Audio CD Volumes: 5 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.54 (39 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Good story, bad history
Comment: This is a decent yarn with enough suspense to keep a golf fan interested, but I doubt than anyone outside of golf will enjoy the book.
The protagonist is Beau Stedman, a caddy with great golf talent who is befriended by Bobby Jones. At a young age he is falsely accused of killing the wife of a resort developer at Hilton Head Island, SC. He flees and spends the rest of his life living and competing under assumed names, all with help from Jones. His story becomes public after an intern at Jones' old law firm finds Jones' files on Stedman and follows up on what he finds.
For someone with knowledge of the locales in the story, particularly Augusta National and Hilton Head Island, the author gets so many background facts wrong that it's hard to get into the story. A fictional round at the Augusta National course starts with an error having #1 as a dogleg left, and ends with an error having #10 fairway to the left of #18 fairway. Another error is in a major premise, the development of resorts and golf courses on Hilton Head Island as early as 1930. Resort development of Hilton Head did not begin until construction of a bridge to the island in the 1950s.
An essential of good ficition is that the reader must be persuaded to suspend disbelief temporarily and treat the story as true. Can't do that when you constantly run into background facts that you know to be untrue. The author is supposed to be a trial lawyer. He should have had a paralegal check his facts.
Rating: 5
Summary: This book was written for me
Comment: I am equal parts history buff and golf enthusiast. I could spend all day reading about two events: the sinking of the Titanic and the 1986 Masters. I am sure ther are many others out there like me. if so, the novel "The Greatest Player Who Never Lived" by Michael Veron, was also written for you. It is difficult to describe how captivated I became while reading about the relationship between Beau Stedman and Bobby Jones. Veron's writing style could not be clearer; his character and plot development are as compelling as any Grisham, Clancy or Follet novel i've read. The ultimate compliment for an author comes when the reader is so enthralled with a book that the reader feels an ovewhelming urge to contact the author personally to thank him. I am in the process of trying to locate Mr. Veron.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great Book
Comment: I have been trying to write a book like this for the past 20
years. Great fiction is born, not just made. God inspires People
with Great talent. I am jellous that My writting doesnt come
close to this quallty. This is a story that one just cant
put down. If I could write something like this My Dad would
be proud of me.
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Title: The Greatest Course that Never Was by J. Michael Veron, Michael J. Veron ISBN: 1886947929 Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: The Green by Troon McAllister ISBN: 0385494602 Publisher: Main Street Books Pub. Date: 18 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: A Mulligan for Bobby Jobe: A Novel by Robert Cullen ISBN: 0060933526 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 07 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Pro : A Golf Novel by Michael Shropshire ISBN: 031224231X Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books Pub. Date: 22 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: The Foursome : A Novel by Troon McAllister ISBN: 0767905725 Publisher: Broadway Pub. Date: 17 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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