[Badmonster]

Do you think it will be widely read, and prominently reviewed? I, of course hope so, but, I'm not sure it will happen.

[mike777]

Badmonster, on Aug 9 2007, 06:54 PM, said:

Do you think it will be widely read, and prominently reviewed? I, of course hope so, but, I'm not sure it will happen.

I ordered it and the Wall Street Journal reviewed it last week I think.

[Badmonster]

mike777, on Aug 9 2007, 06:55 PM, said:

Badmonster, on Aug 9 2007, 06:54 PM, said:

Do you think it will be widely read, and prominently reviewed? I, of course hope so, but, I'm not sure it will happen.

I ordered it and the Wall Street Journal reviewed it last week I think.

But... we already play bridge.

[cherdano]

Badmonster, on Aug 9 2007, 06:07 PM, said:

mike777, on Aug 9 2007, 06:55 PM, said:

Badmonster, on Aug 9 2007, 06:54 PM, said:

Do you think it will be widely read, and prominently reviewed? I, of course hope so, but, I'm not sure it will happen.

I ordered it and the Wall Street Journal reviewed it last week I think.

But... we already play bridge.

Well, the Wall Street Journal doesn't play bridge yet, and if the novel would achieve in getting mike777 seriously interested in bridge...

[Badmonster]

cherdano, on Aug 9 2007, 07:14 PM, said:

Badmonster, on Aug 9 2007, 06:07 PM, said:

mike777, on Aug 9 2007, 06:55 PM, said:

Badmonster, on Aug 9 2007, 06:54 PM, said:

Do you think it will be widely read, and prominently reviewed? I, of course hope so, but, I'm not sure it will happen.

I ordered it and the Wall Street Journal reviewed it last week I think.

But... we already play bridge.

Well, the Wall Street Journal doesn't play bridge yet, and if the novel would achieve in getting mike777 seriously interested in bridge...

Good enough

[goobers]

Is it a good read?

[TimG]

Jlall, on Aug 9 2007, 01:03 AM, said:

http://www.amazon.com/Backwash-Squeeze-Oth...s/dp/0061127647

This book is a novel basically about the world of bridge (no hands etc). I had a similar concept a while back to do something like this and am glad someone did. He includes names of people that are real, and also includes real stories, sometimes giving people assumed names. I even saw a couple of stories about me LOL (though my name was not mentioned thank god).

Anyways I think things like this will go a long way in attracting new people to the game similar to the recent documentary.

From what I have read about it, the book isn't really a novel but rather a first hand account of one player's bridge experiences. Sort of like Word Freak was to Scrabble.

[markleon]

Salon posted an excerpt:

http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2007/08/0...html?source=rss

If the book is anywhere near as fun to read as Word Freak, I'll be very happy.

[paulg]

The advantage that Word Freak had is that many of the top Scrabble players are seriously weird, especially the American players.

As I tell them, bridge players need to find at least one other person on the planet that they can communicate with: Scrabble players are under no such restriction.

Paul
(bag carrier for the only woman with a serious chance of winning the World Scrabble Championship).

[jtfanclub]

I hate the title, but the book sounds interesting.

Why not call it "My other, older woman"? That would make it sound a lot less like a collection of bridge hands than the actual title.

[bid_em_up]

cardsharp, on Aug 10 2007, 03:13 AM, said:

The advantage that Word Freak had is that many of the top Scrabble players are seriously weird, especially the American players.

As I tell them, bridge players need to find at least one other person on the planet that they can communicate with: Scrabble players are under no such restriction.

Paul
(bag carrier for the only woman with a serious chance of winning the World Scrabble Championship).

roflmao.

When I click on this link at work:

woman

This is what our companies filtering list gives me:

"The Websense category "Gambling" is filtered."