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Summary: I'm Still laughing
Review: Great book by a great writer.This book has left me in stiches every time I have read it. I think it could make a great movie, based on its great dialogue and character interaction. If you want to laugh out loud, this is a great book, but it also melds a nice story about love, fun, and redemption nicely.
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Summary: Great laughs
Review: The Chops are a group of friends who like to bet and play at the worst golf course in America in Rick Reilly's novel, Missing Links. The Chops' golf course is called Ponky which was built on top of a dump and has things like a nuclear waste plant in the middle of the course. The story goes on as the chops make a hole in a bush and see the Mayflower Country Club on the other side. This leads them to make a bet too see who could be the first to play this fantastic course. This bet could ruin the relationships of the chops or it could bring them closer then ever. I would recommend to anyone that wants a good laugh. I would not recommend it to younger kids because it has plenty of foul language in it. It has a lot to do with the fun side of golf not the technical side. Like the cover says it will take three burley men to get you away from this story.
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Summary: Wonderful summer read
Review: This is the only comic golf mystery novel I've ever read, but I hope it won't be my last. It passed all three tests:
1. It fairly represents, within the bounds of editorial license, the game of golf
2. I laughed out loud often reading it
3. I didn't guess the answer to the mystery, which was compelling enough to keep me reading even when there weren't as many laughs.
Anyone who liked Caddyshack and is a golfer will like this book.
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Summary: The must read golf book
Review: After the first year I included the word golfer in my personal description I realized there was no 12 step program strong enough to help me. We would spend many afternoons time at the clubhouse over pitchers of beer and stale, free popcorn wishing for the days when caddies were somebody else. We shared stories, desires and frustrations. All about our life as golfers. A few years later I started playing at country clubs instead of dog tracks. To my surprise I realized I had more fun shooting over concrete ditches, and actually having a shot that worked over the man-hole cover off the 4th green. I thought I was destined to play with Judge Smailes and Dr. Beeper the rest of my life. I wanted golf to be fun again. I didn't want it to feel like a job, or television interview. Then I read Missing Links, and realized there were other certifiable folks with the same twisted view that life was better when you are your own caddy. Even if your swing looks resembles a man trapped in a moving car with a bee.
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Summary: Missing Links by Rick Reilly
Review: Missing Links is an outstanding book that everyone can read. The book is about a middle-aged man and his friends that all play golf at a course called Ponky. When the course was first built, it was decent but over the years, it's been let go. These guys all have a stay at home job so they are out on the golf course everyday. One morning whn they are out on the course, one of his friends get's a club stuck in a bush. So they all try and pull it out, and as a result they rip a hole in the bush. The hole gives them a great view of one of the greatest courses in the world called The Mayflower Country Club. This club is as private as you can get, you have to have a special invitation to have a chance in getting accepted. All of them had heard of the golf course right next-door but none of them had ever seen it. The course is well protected by fifteen foot brick walls all around and guards patrol day and night. I'm not going to tell you much more about the book because that would give away the rest of the book. This book would be good for high school age and up because of the language. This book is for fans of Rick Reilly's writing and for sports and golf fans everywhere. Missing Links was one of the best book that I have ever read.
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Summary: Golf with your friends - that's all that matters
Review: Rick accomplishes something special here - tells an entertaining story about a group of regular hackers, amongst whom pretty much anyone would be welcome, who play their dog track course and love every minute of it. At the same time, through the characters, he emphasizes that the grass may be greener on the other side, but getting over to the other side may not be worth becoming another person. Can't wait for someone to write a screenplay for this to get the movie out!
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Summary: A Favorite
Review: A great book for golfers and non-golfers alike. Truly an amazing story of a muni and the players who play there. Golfers will draw a connection to the interesting fellows they play with.
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Summary: non stop laughs
Review: This is a must read...the only draw back is, you will finish the book still craving more....Characters are witty and story line is intoxicating....
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Summary: Rick Rocks!
Review: This is just the funniest golf novel ever written. No questions, no other opinions necessary. If this isn't funny for you, you really don't understand golf and the people who play it. Rick Reilly does understand and has given us a wonderful collage of characters and feeling for the roots of the game. Please Mr Reilly, write us another one of these . . .
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Summary: One of the best!
Review: This is one of the best ever (and not just for a golf book). Missing Links has a little in it for everyone. Great golf, funny characters, an enjoyable story, this is a great read. If you golf and you like to read (even if you don't like to read), pick this one up.
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