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Title: Laughing in the Hills (Hungry Mind Find) by Bill Barich ISBN: 1-886913-20-X Publisher: Ruminator Books Pub. Date: April, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: If it's by Bill Barich, it's worth its weight in gold
Comment: After I read Barich's New Yorker essay "At the Fountain," I (A) gave a copy to every one of my friends, and (B) pilgramiged to read and know the other published work of this amazing author.
'Laughing in the Hills' could have been about how beans are canned, and it would still be a classic. This book is in a class with the best of Constantine, Auster, and Hardy - and they should consider THEMselves lucky to be compared with Barich.
Rating: 5
Summary: Please read this book
Comment: I'm not even finished with this book yet, but I got online to see what kind of response it has received. I'm staggered to see it is not ranked higher and had only a few reviews.
This is one of those books where every page brings insights so painful, or so beautiful, I shake my head in amazement. I'm reading it slowly, lovingly, and I'll tell all my friends about it.
I'm a writer, and have written a novel about horse racing. I've explored this same territory. I almost wish I'd written this book. It is filled with truth and sadness and many, many fine portraits of the people that hang around on the backside of the track.
Rating: 5
Summary: A good book for thoroughbred owners to read.
Comment: This guy is a very honest type of writer who sets aside his ego to get at the truth.
The book tells the story of the author's attempt to make a go of professional handicapping, but he spends a lot of time on the backstretch getting to know the people and the horses.
There is the backstretch as your trainer describes it to you ("well-oiled machine operating at peak efficiency"), and the backstretch as Barich paints it (loosely collected ragtag assortment of people and horses trying to stay afloat). Even though luck is hard to come by for many of the characters in the book, they have an earnest dignity as Bill Barich depicts them, and love and respect for the animals is predominant.
If you like racing you will like this book; if you don't like racing or are indifferent to it, you will probably like the book anyway.
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Title: Finished Lines: A Collection of Memorable Writing on Thoroughbred Racing by Frank R. Scatoni, Steven Crist ISBN: 0970014732 Publisher: DRF Press Pub. Date: December, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Perfect Ride by Gary Stevens, Bill Shoemaker, Mervyn Kaufman ISBN: 0806524502 Publisher: Citadel Trade Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Old Friends: Visits With My Favorite Thoroughbreds by Barbara D. Livingston ISBN: 1581500831 Publisher: Eclipse Press Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Secretariat: The Making of a Champion by William Nack ISBN: 0306811332 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: 02 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Betting on Myself: Adventures of a Horseplayer and Publisher by Steven Crist ISBN: 097264010X Publisher: Daily Racing Form Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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