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A review by loudgls89
Ball Four by Jim Bouton
Did not finish book. Stopped at 20%.
I have been wanting to read this book for years, having heard so much about it, it’s such an iconic book in baseball history.
Unfortunately, the first part of the book is filled with casual racism and extremely creepy behaviour towards women that would definitely get you arrested nowadays.
If I was reading the book, I may well have been able to get past it as a historical thing, but I was listening to the audio book narrated by the author and to hear him laughing as he talks about the way they used to spy on women who thought they were safe in their own hotel rooms just freaked me out, I couldn’t bear it.
So I’m DNF’ing this book for now, and if I come back to it later it’ll definitely be in printed form.
Unfortunately, the first part of the book is filled with casual racism and extremely creepy behaviour towards women that would definitely get you arrested nowadays.
If I was reading the book, I may well have been able to get past it as a historical thing, but I was listening to the audio book narrated by the author and to hear him laughing as he talks about the way they used to spy on women who thought they were safe in their own hotel rooms just freaked me out, I couldn’t bear it.
So I’m DNF’ing this book for now, and if I come back to it later it’ll definitely be in printed form.