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Summary: THE GREATEST NOVEL I HAVE EVER READ
Review: A hillarious story of nieviety in the NBA. This young man has no idea about anything but somehow manages to make it through. I'd say it should be made into a movie, but that wouldn't do the story justice. A must read.
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Summary: Hillarious
Review: A hillarious story of nieviety in the NBA. This young man has no idea about anything but somehow manages to make it through. I'd say it should be made into a movie, but that wouldn't do the story justice. A must read.
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Summary: Satire with a heart
Review: As a rabid basketball fan, I really appreciated the in-jokes about the various sterotypical characters of the NBA, both the real names and the thinly veiled aliases like Mr.Dedman. Anyone whos ever found themselves out of their depth will identify with SloMo as he struggles to fit in with the big boys. Wickedly funny, but with a real message about friendship and being true to yourself....a great read
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Summary: A Funny and Satirical "Tall" Tale of the NBA
Review: At 7'8", rookie Maurice (Slo Mo) Finsternick is taller than Chuck Nevitt, Shawn Bradley, and Manute Bol! He has a deadly sky-hook that he can shoot left-handed or right-handed from the 3 point line! This innocent teenager grew up among a cult of cave dwellers and he has never eaten a McDonalds hamburger. Do he and his New Jersey teammates, Charles Barkley, and Bryant "Big Country" Reeves have a chance to make the playoffs? Team owner, Donald Trump and head coach Phil Jackson are counting on it!Sound like a tall tale? It is, and Rick Reilly pulls it off with style mixing whacky fictional characters together with whacky real-life cahracters! Will former cave-dweller Slo Mo lead the Nets to the brink of an NBA Championship? Read the book and find out for yourself! A funny book with a great ending!
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Summary: A Funny and Satirical "Tall" Tale of the NBA
Review: At 7'8", rookie Maurice (Slo Mo) Finsternick is taller than Chuck Nevitt, Shawn Bradley, and Manute Bol! He has a deadly sky-hook that he can shoot left-handed or right-handed from the 3 point line! This innocent teenager grew up among a cult of cave dwellers and he has never eaten a McDonalds hamburger. Do he and his New Jersey teammates, Charles Barkley, and Bryant "Big Country" Reeves have a chance to make the playoffs? Team owner, Donald Trump and head coach Phil Jackson are counting on it! Sound like a tall tale? It is, and Rick Reilly pulls it off with style mixing whacky fictional characters together with whacky real-life cahracters! Will former cave-dweller Slo Mo lead the Nets to the brink of an NBA Championship? Read the book and find out for yourself! A funny book with a great ending!
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Summary: Not in a class with Missing Links
Review: I bought this book because I thought Missing Links was GREAT. It was the first time that I wanted to return a book because it did not come close to expectations.
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Summary: Reilly writes children's books?
Review: I read Missing Links and loved it. And I enjoy Rick's SI column. But Slomo reads like a children's book. The "real-NBA" stories that are mixed in from SloMo's perspective are cliche and hardly even controversial. Preserve that positive image you have of Rick Reilly. Don't buy this book.
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Summary: Slo Mo! rules
Review: I read Reilly's back page column every week in Sports Illustrated. It's sometimes the only page I read. Slo Mo! rules. It's funny and well written, as we have come to expect, but maybe a little wilder.
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Summary: Rick Reilly funny again
Review: I remember when I was a kid there was an 8'2" man know as the Corn King Giant that came to our grocery store promoting bacon and giving out bacon samples. My sister and I thought he was on stilts because he was too tall so to check we kicked him in the shin. This really funny book by Rick Reilly is loosley based on the Corn King Giant's 7'8" nieve son "Slo Mo". The high school junior turned basketball pro can make nearly all his 30' hook shots but won't play defense or take the ball to the hoop. Never dunks and that drives fans crazy. I just want the coach and fans to accept him for what he is and get him the ball at 30' and let him shot his shot but it's just not that easy. There are coaches and sleezey agents and shoe contracts to deal with. Stories so funny they probably really happened while Rick was writing about the NBA for Sports Illustrated I loved the elevator scene and it has a perfect shake your head ending.
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Summary: Slo Mo = Fast Read
Review: If there were ever a "Forrest Gump" of the sports world, it's Slo Mo. I overheard Rick Reilly talk about this book on the Jim Rome show and purchased it a month later. A lot of the stories are based upon true NBA stories that Reilly had heard, and he didn't need a shoe horn and mounds of super glue to fit them into the short NBA career of Maurice Finkerstein, better known to the world as "Slo Mo." Forget the fact that the real characters involved have never been affiliated with the team (Charles Barkley, Bryant Reeves and Phil Jackson aren't associated with Houston, Vancouver or Chicago/LA like they were in real life), it's a great read from start to finish. The first 2/3rd of the book based on funny stories... and the last 1/3rd you don't want to put the book down.
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