what good book have you read lately?

[Coey]

Aba21 said:

He left college early to play for them................and he played with them every off season for a long time..............Meadowlark Lemon was great! he and Wilt becamse good friends.

.. Interesting.. Thanks.. Aba

[Dbaby]

I'm reading the Shining right now. It's be Steven King. I absolutely LOVE it. I thought the movie was great, but this is even better. It's actually interesting from the first page.

The books that I actually read over and over are:
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
A Time To Kill by John Grisham
To Kill A Mockingbird by... I don't KNOW off the top of my head!
The Green Mile by Steven King

I just can't get enough of those!

[ken-du]

The Door To December--Dean Koontz

[Coey]

Aba21 said:

Right now I am almost finished with the DIFINITIVE BIOGRAPHY OF WILT CHAMBERLAIN.............To me he was the most misunderstood athlete ever.........He in my opinion was/is the greatest basketball player to ever play the game bar none.........if I had to start a team tomorrow.............and you let me have first pick..........I would take him and give you the next two picks. He was that good. Better than Michael Jordan or anybody else who laced up a pair of sneakers. Of course for me its personal having played with him, and known him for so long, but this book clears up many myths about him including the infamous 20,000 women slept with thing. When he retired from the game he had over 13 pages of records in the NBA, many which still stand but the book is much more than that. It gives you a peek at what's its like to be 7ft tall living in a 6 foot world......I have lived a great deal of what he did......just not to the extent that he did. If you are a historian of the game and its players, then you need to read this book about who changed the game of basketball in so many ways............More rules were changed because of him than any other player. And the biggest thing he dealt with was when he won............he was supposed to cause he was so big.................and when he lost.............how could he? He's so big he should win all the time..............just goes to show you no one man is better than sum of the parts he is surrounded by..........

"Where there's a Wilt, there's a way...."

[Jonesesgirl]

I LIKE MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL
:angel

[brunneng]

I was always a Wilt fan! Yes, he was better than Jordan. In his prime, a 50 point average. Unreal!


...better than anyone...

[Aba21]

BrunnenG said:

I was always a Wilt fan! Yes, he was better than Jordan. In his prime, a 50 point average. Unreal!


...better than anyone...

Many people could never understand the impact he had on the game. There was no Espn, Fox Sports News or video to be shown every night. THe night he scored 100 points, they played the game in Hershey, Pa. and it was not recorded........There were only aobut 35oo people there and since the event millions who say they saw it!!! The Knicks had three players with over 30 points and it was not enough!!!!

Just a couple of Stats:

Never fouled out of a game
Averaged 50.4 points per game one season
Record 55 rebounds in one game (against Bill Russell by the way)
Scored 100 points in a game
Scored over 50 points 222 times
Yeah I would say he was the best! But as I said it also shows you that no one man is better than a team. It is one of the things I correlate to the Temptations in that as good as David Eddie and Dennis were, in my opinion they were never as good as they were with the Temptations. Eddie probably had the most success as a solo artist but still he made his name as a member of the greatest male group of all time.

And if Wilt had not come to practice he would have been suspended or fired like anybody else. He was 7ft 1 inch and still he was not bigger than the game. He was the star of every team he played for and he came to every practice and every game not only because it was his job but also because he had teammates expecting him to.

I have a problem with anyone who feels that just because their role may be the one out front, that they deserve special treatment than the other people. Each one has a job to do and and the success of the group depends on each one doing their job. If you do not want to be the part of a group.........then quit. I have no problem with that. But when you make a committment to be a part of a group......then you act like you are part of a group.............period.

[tabby]

"Blaubart" by Max Frisch.
It's about a man who is accused to have killed one of his seven wives by strangling her with his tie. He is innocent, but the prosecution is doing a good job, twisting evryting that's said so he looks bad in the end. He is acquitted because of a lack of evidence, though. But by then he has lost his friends, his patients (he's a physician) and his mind -- he just can't get the trial out of his head and is reviewing the key scenes over and over in his mind. He finally attempts suicide by driving his car into a tree. When he wakes up in the hospital, he finds out that another man has admitted the murder.

[keres]

Aba21 said:

Many people could never understand the impact he had on the game. There was no Espn, Fox Sports News or video to be shown every night. THe night he scored 100 points, they played the game in Hershey, Pa. and it was not recorded........There were only aobut 35oo people there and since the event millions who say they saw it!!! The Knicks had three players with over 30 points and it was not enough!!!!

Just a couple of Stats:

Never fouled out of a game
Averaged 50.4 points per game one season
Record 55 rebounds in one game (against Bill Russell by the way)
Scored 100 points in a game
Scored over 50 points 222 times
Yeah I would say he was the best! But as I said it also shows you that no one man is better than a team. It is one of the things I correlate to the Temptations in that as good as David Eddie and Dennis were, in my opinion they were never as good as they were with the Temptations. Eddie probably had the most success as a solo artist but still he made his name as a member of the greatest male group of all time.

And if Wilt had not come to practice he would have been suspended or fired like anybody else. He was 7ft 1 inch and still he was not bigger than the game. He was the star of every team he played for and he came to every practice and every game not only because it was his job but also because he had teammates expecting him to.

I have a problem with anyone who feels that just because their role may be the one out front, that they deserve special treatment than the other people. Each one has a job to do and and the success of the group depends on each one doing their job. If you do not want to be the part of a group.........then quit. I have no problem with that. But when you make a committment to be a part of a group......then you act like you are part of a group.............period.

Wow! 100 points in a game!!! Thanks for posting the Stats, Aba!

[Aba21]

AnnaKonda said:

"Blaubart" by Max Frisch.
It's about a man who is accused to have killed one of his seven wives by strangling her with his tie. He is innocent, but the prosecution is doing a good job, twisting evryting that's said so he looks bad in the end. He is acquitted because of a lack of evidence, though. But by then he has lost his friends, his patients (he's a physician) and his mind -- he just can't get the trial out of his head and is reviewing the key scenes over and over in his mind. He finally attempts suicide by driving his car into a tree. When he wakes up in the hospital, he finds out that another man has admitted the murder.

Is this a true story?

[tabby]

Aba21 said:

Is this a true story?

No, it is based on the legend of "Bluebeard", however. The main point is to show how a man gets caught in the uncanny machinery of (Swiss) justice, and because he does not fit the image of a "decent" husband, is branded as a man capable of committing a crime. The wife he was believed to have killed, by the way, had become a high society prostitute after their divorce. But the two had developed a sincere friendship when they were no longer married.
I love such stories where on the outside everything seems to be crystal clear: he, a man who had divorced seven times, she (the victim) a prostitute. But even she had convincing reasons for becoming what she was.
I knew -- or rather suspected -- however, who the real killer was right from the beginning!

[kalisa2]

Aba21 said:

Many people could never understand the impact he had on the game. There was no Espn, Fox Sports News or video to be shown every night. THe night he scored 100 points, they played the game in Hershey, Pa. and it was not recorded........There were only aobut 35oo people there and since the event millions who say they saw it!!! The Knicks had three players with over 30 points and it was not enough!!!!

Just a couple of Stats:

Never fouled out of a game
Averaged 50.4 points per game one season
Record 55 rebounds in one game (against Bill Russell by the way)
Scored 100 points in a game
Scored over 50 points 222 times
Yeah I would say he was the best! But as I said it also shows you that no one man is better than a team. It is one of the things I correlate to the Temptations in that as good as David Eddie and Dennis were, in my opinion they were never as good as they were with the Temptations. Eddie probably had the most success as a solo artist but still he made his name as a member of the greatest male group of all time.

And if Wilt had not come to practice he would have been suspended or fired like anybody else. He was 7ft 1 inch and still he was not bigger than the game. He was the star of every team he played for and he came to every practice and every game not only because it was his job but also because he had teammates expecting him to.

I have a problem with anyone who feels that just because their role may be the one out front, that they deserve special treatment than the other people. Each one has a job to do and and the success of the group depends on each one doing their job. If you do not want to be the part of a group.........then quit. I have no problem with that. But when you make a committment to be a part of a group......then you act like you are part of a group.............period.

So tell us... who's the short guy?

[MissTara]

:laughing Yes, whos the short guy ;D

[Debbie]

I am currently reading "When The Wind Blows" by James Patterson.

[kalisa2]

And if Wilt had not come to practice he would have been suspended or fired like anybody else. He was 7ft 1 inch and still he was not bigger than the game. He was the star of every team he played for and he came to every practice and every game not only because it was his job but also because he had teammates expecting him to.

I have a problem with anyone who feels that just because their role may be the one out front, that they deserve special treatment than the other people. Each one has a job to do and and the success of the group depends on each one doing their job. If you do not want to be the part of a group.........then quit. I have no problem with that. But when you make a committment to be a part of a group......then you act like you are part of a group.............period.

great analogies and points well taken.