I got it this summer but just got around to reading it about a month ago. I always enjoy books that chronicle a sports season, so I was glad to finally see one for wrestling. For me it ranks right up there with Friday Night Lights, A Season Inside, Junction Boys, Season on the Brink, and To Hate Like This is to be Happy Forever.
I'm already an Iowa fan but this makes their team even more interesting. I always enjoy watching wrestlers more when I feel like I know more about what makes them tick.
"Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can" -- John Wesley
Blue, when the book came out there was a couple of threads about it. Probably didn't see them. Oh, well still a great read.
I thought it was kind of funny when Kriedler talked about the out of state "imports" named Mark Perry, Charlie Falck, and Alex Tsirtsis like they were chopped liver.
I know he wrote the book with the point to spotlight Iowa wrestling, but that still struck me as kind of funny.
Definitely a good book, recommend to any wrestling fan.
I just looked at your blog, and the cover picture you have posted is different than the cover of my copy. So it looks like it is some kind of re-issue. Strange.
"Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can" -- John Wesley
My copy says it was published in 2007. That sounds about right with what people are saying -- I think I got my copy last summer. The author was scheduled to be here in Iowa City signing books on the day of the Iowa/Oklahoma State dual. Unfortunately, there was some weather in California that day and his flight was canceled. If I hear about him coming again, I'll let y'all know!
The hardcover is just coming out, though I don't think that the publisher is giving me hardcovers to give away (I'm working with Harper Collins on the contest.) I got nothing on getting it signed, though. It was a weird, weird thing for me, because I finished reading the book last Friday, and then was at Midlands on Saturday and Sunday. Seeing the LeCleres and the Borschels just after reading about a year in their life was a little odd.
Hardcover always comes out before the paperback.
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