Hahaha. Yeah, that's pretty bad. At first I sorta liked him (though not writing about sports), but it got tiring very quickly. He's just kinda...self-absorbed. I think Keri actually met him and asserted he was just as self-absorbed in person.
He wrote the foreword for Wallace's book. But I think the biggest problem here is simply that he's not really a sports fan:
"There were times, reading a very exhaustive account of a tennis match, say, when I thought, well, okay. I like tennis as much as the next guy, but enough already."
Lol. He basically says he was hired to write the foreword to try to convince people that they could read a thousand-page book. But I learned things, I guess, that "He was once a nationally ranked tennis player," and he's from the Midwest. Wallace was, I mean.
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Date: 2009-01-13 01:18 am (UTC)He wrote the foreword for Wallace's book. But I think the biggest problem here is simply that he's not really a sports fan:
"There were times, reading a very exhaustive account of a tennis match, say, when I thought, well, okay. I like tennis as much as the next guy, but enough already."
Lol. He basically says he was hired to write the foreword to try to convince people that they could read a thousand-page book. But I learned things, I guess, that "He was once a nationally ranked tennis player," and he's from the Midwest. Wallace was, I mean.