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Post by DBBN on Nov 5, 2009 19:10:02 GMT -5
He didn't beat Ferreira for the gold, he beat Bruguera.
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Post by janie on Nov 6, 2009 10:04:34 GMT -5
I don't care about Agassi's use of speed -- I don't know many people who never took illicit drugs -- but I want to read his book for the other stuff; unlike most books by athletes, his sounds pretty interesting. I'm judging by the excerpts that CNNSI put up: sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/the_bonus/10/30/andre.agassi/index.htmlFortunately I can get it from my library without too much of a wait, because I have no intention of BUYING a copy of any athlete's autobiography to own and cherish forever on my shelves.  |
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Post by Bruguera's heavy balls on Nov 6, 2009 11:51:59 GMT -5
Buying that would be my most vain book buy ever
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Post by lexpretend on Nov 6, 2009 11:56:19 GMT -5
I'm probably going to go the second-hand Amazon Marketplace route (or maybe charity shop if I come across it). Definitely want to read it, don't want to help line Agassi's pockets.
Then again, by the time I get round to it all the good bits will probably be on the internet anyway.
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Post by Bruguera's heavy balls on Nov 6, 2009 11:59:22 GMT -5
Hurley, I knew that, I corrected myself in my edit, like two minutes after posting that. (he did beat ferreira at the qf of the olympics)
BTW, Now Bruguera is mad and says he deserves the olympic gold medal
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Post by Brinyi on Nov 6, 2009 12:59:49 GMT -5
Fortunately I can get it from my library without too much of a wait, because I have no intention of BUYING a copy of any athlete's autobiography to own and cherish forever on my shelves. Neither do I, but I recently made a Gnomish exception to that rule. |
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Post by janie on Nov 6, 2009 13:06:08 GMT -5
 Can I borrow it?  |
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Post by leelee on Nov 6, 2009 13:08:17 GMT -5
Is the Gnome book in English? I'll probably skim through the Agassi book at Borders or something. I have no desire to read the drug stuff, and definitely nothing with my Stefanie.  |
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Post by Bruguera's heavy balls on Nov 6, 2009 13:19:53 GMT -5
I only care about the tennis bits, I want to see him talking and trash talking other players. Talking about matches. I don't care for his personal life.
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Post by Brinyi on Nov 6, 2009 13:29:52 GMT -5
Is the Gnome book in English? I'll probably skim through the Agassi book at Borders or something. I have no desire to read the drug stuff, and definitely nothing with my Stefanie. It's just been published in French. I fear the demand for a translation might be low. Hey, maybe I could make the publisher an offer! |
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Post by Brinyi on Nov 6, 2009 13:31:05 GMT -5
Full disclosure I actually bought the unauthorized bio, The Agassi and the Ecstasy, back in the day. I'm not quite sure why I did that. I also confess to have bought bios of Edberg, Cash, Leconte and Noah. So I guess AA didn't come clean on his sexuality yet?  |
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Post by leelee on Nov 6, 2009 14:42:16 GMT -5
I've never read or known about an Edberg bio. What kind of fangirl am I.
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Post by janie on Nov 6, 2009 15:59:05 GMT -5
I bought Tauziat's bio when I only knew about 20 words of French and didn't know any verb conjugations.  In fact that book was one of my incentives to learn French in the first place. As you can imagine, it was extremely slow going, and I didn't get very far. I should get back to it now that I can read French! I'm going to look up this Santoro book online; maybe I can ask for an Amazon gift certificate for Xmas and use it at amazon.ca or amazon.fr.  |
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Post by janie on Nov 6, 2009 16:03:11 GMT -5
So much for that bonne idée:
Gift Cards may not be redeemed for the purchase of products through in-store pickup, or at Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.de, Amazon.fr, Amazon.co.jp, Amazon.ca, or any other Web site operated by Amazon.com blah blah blah
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Post by Brinyi on Nov 6, 2009 16:49:06 GMT -5
Actually, I misremembered. The Edberg book I was thinking of was only partly about him -- Eliot Berry's Topspin.
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Post by janie on Nov 6, 2009 17:46:18 GMT -5
I read Arthur Ashe's book, too, and that one I even bought, as my tribute to the man. That was a good book! And didn't Bodo write a tennis book? If so, I think I read it. ;D And I know I read that Wertheim one about the WTA. Oh no! I just remembered, I also BOUGHT and read used copies of PAM SHRIVER's and ZINA GARRISON's books! And I still have a copy of Mo Connolly's rare book, though I'm trying to sell it on Amazon Marketplace. Oh wait, I read one by Billy Talbert, too. I guess I love tennis books, but just don't want to own them.  |
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Post by leelee on Nov 6, 2009 20:21:02 GMT -5
Ashe's book... that will forever be tainted on me since I had to read it in high school for your stereotypical super liberal English teacher... and it had very little to do with tennis. I love Mr. Ashe, though.
I should read more tennis books. Although, the problem is that I can't get myself to care about their personal lives, for the most part.
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Post by DBBN on Nov 6, 2009 21:21:54 GMT -5
BTW, Now Bruguera is mad and says he deserves the olympic gold medal  Sergi My favorite male player from June of 1993 until August of 1994, when I saw Muster's ass in person. |
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Post by Bruguera's heavy balls on Nov 6, 2009 22:49:13 GMT -5
He looks like this nowadays  |
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Post by DBBN on Nov 6, 2009 23:18:49 GMT -5
I never really thought he was good-looking, I just thought he was cool. I'm not solely a whore.
I guess if I could grow my hair that long in my 30's, I probably would. But those days are gone.
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Post by Brinyi on Nov 7, 2009 8:33:15 GMT -5
Oh yeah, I read Ashe's book too. And the Old Hag's mystery novel.
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Post by lexpretend on Nov 9, 2009 10:53:25 GMT -5
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Post by janie on Nov 9, 2009 16:57:25 GMT -5
LOL Still planning to read it. I am 7th out of 9 in line for it at my local library! (In contrast, I am 133rd out of 160 in line for a popular novel called "The Help".) |
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Post by DBBN on Nov 9, 2009 16:58:25 GMT -5
Libraries  |
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Post by leelee on Nov 9, 2009 19:46:21 GMT -5
I know. When I leave this job, very soon I hope, I'm never walking into a library again.
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Post by janie on Nov 10, 2009 10:59:54 GMT -5
I love libraries. What a great sentence from Michael Mewshaw's Washington Post review of Agassi's book: "Presented to the public as clean family fun, an upscale entertainment for the country-club set, top-level tennis is actually played by the physical and emotional mutants of a misery machine that leaves them too ill-educated or psychically damaged to understand what has happened to their lives." |
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Post by Brinyi on Nov 10, 2009 11:21:21 GMT -5
Wow. Great quote.
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Post by DBBN on Nov 10, 2009 12:28:13 GMT -5
Mewshaw, author of two great tennis books, "Short Circuit" and "Ladies of the Court," would know.
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Post by janie on Nov 10, 2009 12:44:36 GMT -5
Guga, Patrick Rafter, Natasha Zvereva , Lindsay Davenport and Mary Joe F. never seemed like emotional mutants, but when I think about it, just about everyone else did/does. |
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Post by leelee on Nov 10, 2009 13:46:23 GMT -5
Lindsay and Maria Jose were. Guga too, the dopey smile was how he always looked. I miss Zvereva. |
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Can I borrow it? 
