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contraband_donut 's review for:
Gunslinger: The Remarkable, Improbable, Iconic Life of Brett Favre
by Jeff Pearlman
I really struggled with the rating. but 2.5 is about as generous as I get with this.
Sports biographies are notoriously easy reads, and this is no different. I skipped 100+ pages about Brett's childhood and college, and skimmed about another fifteen percent. I don't read fast at all, and yet I read the book in roughly 24 hours. The issue with the book is I knew, or had heard about most of the racy bits about Favre's career. I remember hearing rumors about his womanizing, I remember hearing about his alcoholism and drug-addiction before the rehab stints. So Pearlman had an uphill climb with me., and the review reflects that more than a problem with Pearlman's narrative or information.
The stuff Pearlman added to my brain about Favre, I probably didn't want to know. It was fun to romp down memory lane, and the tidbits added to the games I remember vividly or vaguely were very good. I appreciate the research and the interviews Pearlman put into this book, but ultimately I only sort of enjoyed myself.
An aside: NFL Films have produced a Greatest Games DVD set for many NFL franchises. For reasons I'm not sure why, the Packers is 10 discs, primarily being a Brett Favre collection. Pearlman's book details at least five games on the Packers collection...Favre's first Packer game vs. Cincinnati; a game vs. the Bears; the NFC Championship Game vs. Carolina, the Super Bowl vs. Patriots, and Favre's incredible game after his father's death vs. Oakland. It's not the worst thing in the world to read Pearlman's book and then throw in one of those games.
Sports biographies are notoriously easy reads, and this is no different. I skipped 100+ pages about Brett's childhood and college, and skimmed about another fifteen percent. I don't read fast at all, and yet I read the book in roughly 24 hours. The issue with the book is I knew, or had heard about most of the racy bits about Favre's career. I remember hearing rumors about his womanizing, I remember hearing about his alcoholism and drug-addiction before the rehab stints. So Pearlman had an uphill climb with me., and the review reflects that more than a problem with Pearlman's narrative or information.
The stuff Pearlman added to my brain about Favre, I probably didn't want to know. It was fun to romp down memory lane, and the tidbits added to the games I remember vividly or vaguely were very good. I appreciate the research and the interviews Pearlman put into this book, but ultimately I only sort of enjoyed myself.
An aside: NFL Films have produced a Greatest Games DVD set for many NFL franchises. For reasons I'm not sure why, the Packers is 10 discs, primarily being a Brett Favre collection. Pearlman's book details at least five games on the Packers collection...Favre's first Packer game vs. Cincinnati; a game vs. the Bears; the NFC Championship Game vs. Carolina, the Super Bowl vs. Patriots, and Favre's incredible game after his father's death vs. Oakland. It's not the worst thing in the world to read Pearlman's book and then throw in one of those games.