It's up to 35 now on the list...
It's up to 35 now on the list...
Coming out in August 2009:
http://library.brillianceaudio.com/product.asp?AuthorId=1244&Titleid=19881
Looks like they have not selected a reader/narrator yet.
Awesome, I sold my copy in Winter 07 for $275 and just bought 2 copies for $28.
deleuze wrote:
Overdog wrote:Once a Runner was fun to read for its detailed race descriptions and life as a serious runner, but was hardly a decent piece of writing.Sure, because the measure of a decent piece of writing is 1) how distant it is from your experience and 2) how painful it is to read.
Once a Runner is certainly an excellent piece of writing exactly because it conjures up the experience of training and of racing on a college team in a way that those who have had those experiences can understand. It points out the ways in which our narrow task has certain meanings.
It is the narrowness of the appeal of distance running at an elite level that makes the book seem less universal and perhaps provincial. It's the subject matter, not the writing that is narrow. I take this narrowness to be the strength of the book, not its weakness.
OAR is a badly badly written book. The story like is down right hackneyed. it has so many problems with the writing and the plot, I really didn't think it was anything special. And I ran in college.