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About the Author

Bruce Weber began his career in publishing as a fiction editor at Esquire. He has been on the staff of the New York Times since 1986 as a magazine editor, metro reporter, national arts correspondent, theater columnist and critic, among other things; he has been writing obituaries since 2008. He is mostrar mais the author of the New York Times bestseller As They See 'Em: A Fan's Travels in the Land of Umpires and the coauthor, with the dancer Savion, of Savion! My Life in Tap. mostrar menos

Obras por Bruce Weber

Advanced Yo-Yo Tricks (1999) 28 exemplares
Dynamite Animal Hall of Fame (1979) 25 exemplares
More Weird Moments in Sports (1983) 15 exemplares
Baseball Trivia and Fun Book (1993) 14 exemplares
All-Pro Baseball Stars 1977 (1977) 12 exemplares
Bruce Weber Inside Baseball-89 (1989) 10 exemplares
Bruce Weber (1991) 9 exemplares
Pro Football Megastars 1995 (1995) 9 exemplares
All-Pro Baseball Stars 1981 (1981) 8 exemplares
Pro Basketball Megastars 1995 (1995) 7 exemplares
Inside Baseball 1991 (1991) 7 exemplares
All-pro Baseball Stars 82 (1982) 7 exemplares
Baseball Megastars 1995 (1995) 6 exemplares
Pro Football Megastars 1994 (1994) 6 exemplares
All-Pro Baseball Stars 1976 (1976) 6 exemplares
All-Pro Baseball Stars 1979 (1979) 5 exemplares
All-Pro Baseball Stars 1978 (1978) 5 exemplares
All-American VIII: Nature's Way (2008) 5 exemplares
Greatest Moments Of The NBA (2000) 5 exemplares
All-Pro Baseball Stars '80 (1980) 5 exemplares
Sparky Anderson (SCU-2) (1988) 5 exemplares
Baseball Megastars 1994 (1994) 5 exemplares
All-Pro Baseball Stars '83 (1983) 4 exemplares
NBA Megastars '99 (NBA) (1999) 4 exemplares
All-Pro Basketball Stars 1981 (1981) 4 exemplares
All-American XII: Volume XII (2012) 4 exemplares
All-American XV (2015) 4 exemplares
All-pro basketball stars 1979 (1979) 3 exemplares
All-pro Basketball Stars 1977 (1976) 3 exemplares
Pro Basketball Megastars 1994 (1994) 3 exemplares
Inside Pro Football 1985 (1985) 3 exemplares
All-Pro Basketball Stars 1976 (1976) 3 exemplares
NBA Awesome Duos Poster Book (2002) 3 exemplares
All-Pro Baseball Stars '84 (1984) 3 exemplares
Nba: Megastars 2001 (2001) 2 exemplares
All Pro Basketball Stars 84 (1984) 2 exemplares
Inside Pro Football 1986 (PB) (1986) 2 exemplares
School is a funny place (1974) 2 exemplares
The pro football quiz book (1975) 1 exemplar
Barry Bonds (Sport Shots) (1994) 1 exemplar

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Conhecimento Comum

Nome canónico
Weber, Bruce
Data de nascimento
20th century
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
USA
Ocupações
journalist

Membros

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Maybe 3.5 stars...I feel like this is one of my favorite bike-across-the-country books, but not the favorite. The beginning half of the book was great and I was ready to make it my all-time favorite of this type, but then Weber starts getting into an earlier bike tour in Vietnam (he devotes a whole chapter to it), and discussing what Sept. 11 meant to him (although he wasn't biking at the time and it has no connection to his bike tour), and generally spending more time analyzing his life than letting us know about people and places he meets during his tour. Still - it's better than others I've read. With each new touring book I read, I hope I'm going to get some self-analysis along with vivid descriptions of places and people that are different from what I know (and hopefully what the author knows). The first half of this book does a pretty good job, but the back half is more tedious than anything.… (mais)
 
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Jeff.Rosendahl | 8 outras críticas | Sep 21, 2021 |
One of the best insights into the world of being an umpire. After reading, I felt a whole new respect for the men in blue. Worth reading more than once, as it is in the permanent part of my book collection.
 
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Astrobag5 | 11 outras críticas | Feb 5, 2020 |
I read lots of books about bike touring. I dream about bike touring but actually get out for an overnighter almost never. But I read a lot of books!

Weber calls his book a semi-memoir. That label fits. It's a very personal book. He lets us know that he has been in psychotherapy for decades. He's a New Yorker, a Manhattanite! He's practically a character out of a Woody Allen movie. He got started bike touring while vacationing in the Hamptons. I'm not making this up! I have orbited from time to time just close enough to Manhattan to know that this sort of thing is actually real. Or maybe that helps me feel that reality more viscerally than a reader who has e.g. lived their whole life in Colorado Springs.

Not only that, he writes for the New York Times, and has for decades! Yeah my sister is a sort of Manhattan professional writer, so I know the type a bit. This book is so well written... it's almost too luscious. I remember a few sentences where Weber is mulling over his use of the word "creditable". The mulling is not out of place; he's got the nuances very precisely mapped. But, wow, it's like vacationing in the Hamptons. For me it is like a glimpse into a whole other world, yeah like watching a Woody Allen movie. Can you believe it, people actually live like that!

I've never gone on a big bike trip like this, so I can't say for sure whether my own reflections would mirror his. Would my reason for riding be very similar to his? I think I would reflect on that puzzle very much like Weber does. I am now planning a month-long ride and part of that is writing out a statement of purpose, of why I ride. Of course this kind of brazen ambition is very different from the result of stewing over it across northeast Montana. All that psychotherapy, all that writing of obituaries... Weber's reflections are very genuine.

It's a fine book, but it's practically more memoir than travelogue. It does put those dimensions together very well. I was thinking of sending it along to my Mom now that I have finished it. But Weber talks about how he could practically have died from heart disease out there far far from the kind of medical care that a person can get in Manhattan and probably also in the Salt Lake area where I live these days. My Mom is worried about crazy me going out on a big bike trip - I'm older than Weber was on his trip. But I don't think this book would reassure her! Maybe the next bike touring book will be better for that!
… (mais)
 
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kukulaj | 8 outras críticas | Feb 19, 2018 |
 
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jimifenway | 11 outras críticas | Feb 2, 2016 |

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Obras
75
Membros
960
Popularidade
#26,838
Avaliação
½ 3.7
Críticas
23
ISBN
147
Línguas
4

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