Playing Without the Ball by Rich Wallace
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) So if you're really into basketball, or sports in general, this book could be interesting. It's basically the story of a 17-year-old living by himself above a restaurant where he works. He's completely obsessed with basketball, and minorly obsessed with girls. He explores his first sexual ventures and his quest for actual love. He is cut from the school basketball team, so he joins a church solely for their team. His maturity and classification between the reality of love is somewhat unrealistic, but who am I to make that judgement? It was a struggle for me to get through, slow with no obvious central plot besides his story of maturation. However, there were some great quotes found throughout; there is definitely some unparalleled talent in the author. ("Ethnicity? I suppose we had some, three or four generations back, but it's been bleached out of us pretty good. We're as white as Twinkies and fish sticks. / It's a neutral, Wonder Bread sort of whiteness, a bland-talking, straight-thinking, virginal whiteness. Like Cheerios."..."And it struck me that if you added just a drop of melted chocolate to a dish full of vanilla, the mix would take on an undebatable tone of brown. But stir in a drop of vanilla into a spoonful of chocolate and you'd never even know it was there." Page 18.)
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) So if you're really into basketball, or sports in general, this book could be interesting. It's basically the story of a 17-year-old living by himself above a restaurant where he works. He's completely obsessed with basketball, and minorly obsessed with girls. He explores his first sexual ventures and his quest for actual love. He is cut from the school basketball team, so he joins a church solely for their team. His maturity and classification between the reality of love is somewhat unrealistic, but who am I to make that judgement? It was a struggle for me to get through, slow with no obvious central plot besides his story of maturation. However, there were some great quotes found throughout; there is definitely some unparalleled talent in the author. ("Ethnicity? I suppose we had some, three or four generations back, but it's been bleached out of us pretty good. We're as white as Twinkies and fish sticks. / It's a neutral, Wonder Bread sort of whiteness, a bland-talking, straight-thinking, virginal whiteness. Like Cheerios."..."And it struck me that if you added just a drop of melted chocolate to a dish full of vanilla, the mix would take on an undebatable tone of brown. But stir in a drop of vanilla into a spoonful of chocolate and you'd never even know it was there." Page 18.)
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