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Sexo: male
Locais de residência: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Ocupação: Faculty, University of Minnesota, Graduate School of Journalism

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This Thing Called Life: Prince's Odyssey, On and… de Neal Karlen

DNF. Just negative and all about the author. Maybe I was in a bad mood (Nov 4, 2020).

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froxgirl | Nov 4, 2020 |

Slouching Toward Fargo:: A Two-Year Saga Of Sinners… de Neal Karlen

Minor League baseball is not like major league baseball or any other kind of baseball. It is nothing but fun. This book chronicles two years in the life of the St. Paul, Minnesota Saints. It's full of wonderful vignettes and stories and unforgettable characters. If you've never been to a minor league baseball game, go to one. I promise you'll have fun and cheap fun.

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susandennis | outras 3 resenhas | Jun 5, 2020 |

Augie's Secrets: The Minneapolis Mob and the King… de Neal Karlen

Interesting review of the rise and fall of gangsters, gambling, and organized crime as seen through the life and relationship of Augie Ratner, King of the Hennepin Strip.

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bemislibrary | 1 outra resenha | Aug 23, 2015 |

Slouching Toward Fargo:: A Two-Year Saga Of Sinners… de Neal Karlen

This is quite possibly the whiniest writing I have ever read! The author seems to have so many axes to grind! During the first 50 pages he writes repeatedly about his hostility toward Rolling Stone magazine and its head chief, Jann Wenner. Geez man, we get it!
And even in the part I was most into, about Ila Borders, the first woman to ever win a game in a men's professional baseball game, the author still manages to whine. His childish remarks about a columnist's weight problem totally distract from the point he is trying to make. Talk about "spewing sour grapes"! If the author could have taken the huge chip on his shoulder out of his writing, this could have been quite a story. Yeesh!… (mais)

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Stahl-Ricco | outras 3 resenhas | Mar 16, 2015 |

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