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Remando Como Un Solo Hombre: La Historia del Equipo de Remo Que Humilló a Hitler
Daniel James Brown
4.36 AVERAGE
4.22k reviews for:
Remando Como Un Solo Hombre: La Historia del Equipo de Remo Que Humilló a Hitler
Daniel James Brown
4.36 AVERAGE
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This was a story of the 1936 US Olympic Crew team, participating in Germany, a story I had never heard. Each of these young men had enormous challenges to face as well as those in preparing and competing for the Olympics. Inspirational and well written.
This was hard to get into for the first 50 pages...after that I was all in and could NOT put it down. This was a great read! I know so much more about rowing and the Berlin Olympics.
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The Boys in the Boat is probably the worst non-fiction book I've ever read. Granted, I've only read a few of them, and this doesn't necessarily mean this book is 'bad'. Still, I left this book not feeling fully satisfied.
I thought this book nailed the rivalry of Cal and Washington. I really enjoyed learning about the back and forth struggle for dominance, the feud of Ky Ebright and Al Ulbrickson, and the fanatical mania of each respective college. Particularly, I loved hearing about Al's strategy in rowing, as I felt myself the most captivated during the training sessions. learning the small minutiae of rowing techniques on top of the grueling regimented work made this book feel like it was building toward a grand finish, and that it did.
The main sticking point I had for Boys in the Boat, which tainted the rest of the book for me, was the sections about Joe's struggles. I do enjoy underdog stories, but his story felt a little too much like a glorification of "pulling yourself up by your bootstraps." The patriotic undertones of his story didn't sit well with me, as it felt like the author was saying "this guy was able to persevere through the great depression through sheer hard work," implying that hard work alone can push people to the heights Joe achieved. It felt as if an unrealistic expectation was levied against the other millions of Americans in this time frame, asking if they were working as hard as possible to uplift themselves from poverty, which doesn't seem fair. I'm not discounting Joe's story as a whole, more so I'm slightly discounting the portrayal of his story.
The Boys in the Boat was ultimately not for me. There were enjoyable moments aplenty within the novel, but once that seed was planted in my brain, I couldn't shake my feelings. I don't even think the author should've written this story differently, it was simply resonating on my opposite frequency. Take this biased review with a grain of salt.
2.25/5 stars
I thought this book nailed the rivalry of Cal and Washington. I really enjoyed learning about the back and forth struggle for dominance, the feud of Ky Ebright and Al Ulbrickson, and the fanatical mania of each respective college. Particularly, I loved hearing about Al's strategy in rowing, as I felt myself the most captivated during the training sessions. learning the small minutiae of rowing techniques on top of the grueling regimented work made this book feel like it was building toward a grand finish, and that it did.
The main sticking point I had for Boys in the Boat, which tainted the rest of the book for me, was the sections about Joe's struggles. I do enjoy underdog stories, but his story felt a little too much like a glorification of "pulling yourself up by your bootstraps." The patriotic undertones of his story didn't sit well with me, as it felt like the author was saying "this guy was able to persevere through the great depression through sheer hard work," implying that hard work alone can push people to the heights Joe achieved. It felt as if an unrealistic expectation was levied against the other millions of Americans in this time frame, asking if they were working as hard as possible to uplift themselves from poverty, which doesn't seem fair. I'm not discounting Joe's story as a whole, more so I'm slightly discounting the portrayal of his story.
The Boys in the Boat was ultimately not for me. There were enjoyable moments aplenty within the novel, but once that seed was planted in my brain, I couldn't shake my feelings. I don't even think the author should've written this story differently, it was simply resonating on my opposite frequency. Take this biased review with a grain of salt.
2.25/5 stars
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I did not expect to become completely obsessed with this book, but that’s what happened. Perfectly paced.
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I started reading this book in the height of my very short collegiate rowing career, and just finished it now. Brown has this uncanny ability of turning real life men into legendary heroes, while still highlighting their humanness and boyhood. Juxtaposed with scenes of Nazi Germany, there is a second narrative arc but it isn't clear what Brown is trying to say: were the boys lucky they hadn't come to Europe five years later? Did they triumph over fascism with good old American patriotism? I don't know if this should be answered but it's a salient reminder as we hopefully enter a new age of defeating fascism in America and preventing a second Armenian genocide in Nagorno-Karabakh. One of the best books I've ever read.
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