Reviewed by: BigAl
Genre: Sports/Games
Approximate word count: 25-30,000 words
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Author:
An engineer
turned elementary school teacher, John Pearson writes humor. His teaching
experiences provided fodder for his first two books, Learn Me Good and Learn Me
Gooder. For more, visit Pearson’s blog.
Description:
“An inside
look at one fantasy football league. A fly-on-the-wall perspective of ten
scrappy managers/everyday Joes – more obsessive than some, less obsessive than
most. A touching story of one triumphant champion and nine complete losers.
Prepare to
step into history.
And by ‘history,’
I mean ‘completely unspectacular events that have happened in the recent past.’”
Appraisal:
I
joke that I’m not a sports guy and, although it hasn’t always been that way, it
is mostly true. However, I am a game player. I wasn’t sure whether this book
would do the trick for me or not. It is the story of a single season of play
from the author’s fantasy football league. Would a non-football fan still like
it?
As
with Pearson’s prior books, the entertainment and pleasure in the reading is in
the humor: for example, when he applauds two of the fantasy teams near the end
of the season for “maintaining the fake integrity of this fake sport,” he finds
humor everywhere and it comes through in his writing. Some jokes may fly over
the head of non-football fans, but for someone who hasn’t paid much attention
to the personalities and happenings in the game for several years, I was
surprised at how much I still understood. Having never played fantasy football
and with only a vague idea of how it worked, I was still able to understand the
rules of the competition and the rationale behind most of the strategy, which
appealed to the game player in me. But most of all, there was a conflict (no matter
how fantasized it was) to be resolved, and a constant stream of laughs as
Pearson and his friends made their way through the season. I’m convinced that
John Pearson could take anything and make it funny.
Format/Typo Issues:
No
significant issues.
Rating: ***** Five stars
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