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There are plenty of films and documentaries about Steve Prefontaine.
I have not watched any of them.
There are also more than a few books on him, and I just read my first, Pre: The Story of America’s Greatest Running Legend by Tom Jordan.
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There are quite a few stories within this book, including a book within a book that’s quite the read, but I’ll get to that in a moment. October Light, written by James Gardner, is based on two very specific things; a conflict between an old man and an old woman, as well as pieces of a fictional book that we read along with one of the characters.
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“Vancouver is falling down–crumbling into sand. To save it, Astrid O’Brien boards a bus to a parallel dimension, there to confront the demons of the city, and to answer the question: Are we who we’re told we are, or who we decide to be?” This is the back cover synopsis for Andrew Cownden’s debut novel Astrid Falls: A Legend of Vancouver. And it is not a book to skip, but one to read and discuss with friends. Who are you?…
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Comedy is tragedy plus time, but with The Human Comedy, it’s reversed because this 1943 novel by William Saroyan is relevant again. While that might be the nature of the book, it’s amazing how far we haven’t come, or how timeless Saroyan’s novel truly is. I would classify this as a great American novel. It’s timeless, it’s about community and family, loneliness and belonging, being a child and growing up, war and faith, reality and perception, and to be fair,…
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Soccer Against the Enemy by Simon Kuper was first published in 1994 with the subtitle “How the world’s most popular sport starts and fuels revolutions and keeps dictators in power.” I recently read the updated 2006 version, but since a lot has happened in those intervening years, like for example a World Cup in Qatar, this book is just exhibit A. This book is about Simon’s research by being boots on the ground in places like Scotland, Ireland, Holland, Germany,…
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