My advice would be to read this book only if you're into football. If not, a good half is going to be quite boring. For me, not knowing football at all, it was boring and foreign. Good chunks of the narrative are radio broadcasts' of games during which I had no idea what they were talking about.The book is short, only 4 CDs, and the second one is all about such radio broadcast, so it went pretty quickly. It wasn't until the middle of CD 3 that I started to like the book, so if you're not a football fan, it might take a while before you start feeling any interest.
Anyway, in the end, it's not horrible, but certainly not a great read. It's the story of a guy whose glory days playing football in college (where he was quite promising) are over, and he's back in his hometown for the imminent funeral of his onetime coach.
Here he finds his old friends, and together they relive the times when they were all part of an unbeatable football team whose glorious facade hid many slowly surfacing cracks.
All in all, enjoyable, but, like I said, only after a good half.
Grade: 6
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