Golf Club Atlas
GolfClubAtlas.com => Golf Course Architecture Discussion Group => Topic started by: Brad Klein on October 02, 2013, 07:18:08 PM
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I was going to ask everyone to rate my books but after thinking about for a second (and reading that other thread) figured I'd rather you just buy them. For those who have made the transition from book-in-hand to E-book, a version of "Wide Open Fairways" is apparently available. University of Nebraska Press tells me they is releasing an E-book version, and it's already available for purchase through Google Play and ebooks.com:
https://play.google.com/store/search?q=wide%20open%20fairways&hl=en
http://www.ebooks.com/1224909/wide-open-fairways/klein-bradley-s/
It’s taking them longer than planned to make it available for kindle; that should happen in the coming weeks. It will also be available for Barnes and Noble Nook, but they take quite a while to make ebooks available.
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I was going to ask everyone to rate my books but after thinking about for a second (and reading that other thread) figured I'd rather you just buy them.
Think about it another second, and the light might dawn:
In order to rank your books (or rate them, for that matter), a person would have to read them.
To read them, a person would buy them.
Right?
And once people have bought them ... well, reading them or not reading them is entirely their affair! Your job's done.
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I would love to buy some of your books, Brad, but I have no idea in which order to buy them.
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Brad, comp me a book and I'll rate it ;D
( I buy all your books so I can joke about it...right?)
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It's strange. I love ebooks but I buy all my golf books in hard copy. I want to read them and look at them. Brad's new book is great. Buy it in some form.
Paul
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It's strange. I love ebooks but I buy all my golf books in hard copy. I want to read them and look at them. Brad's new book is great. Buy it in some form.
Paul,
I feel the same way, I like having hard cover golf books and Brad's book is the latest addition to my collection
Paul
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David,
start with "Rough Meditations" for lighter (and cheaper) reading, then "Wide Open Fairways." "Discovering Donald Ross" is the serious one, priced accordingly -- not the $200 Amazon first edition but the $65 second one.
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8) Brad,
When are you going to put everything together on a DVD, a Personal Guide to GCA ?
Steve
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Steve, when I can figure out how to make a living doing that, I'll make the leap.
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Brad...who do you consider the inferior authors to you? Updike, Wolfe, and H.S. Thompson? 8)
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Steve, as per another post, the idea of asking others "what do you think of my work" is hopelessly narcissistic. I long ago taught my teenage daughter, when she was worrying about what people thought of her, that "they're not."
Having said that, there are writers I like for their style, their career, their nerve, and their ability to range over topics -- which is not to say i compare myself to them or think myself their equal. But you learn early on to take inspiration from certain writers and to see what about their style you like or dislike. A few who come to mind are really smart people who can write clearly and simply about a lot of things, one of which is sports: Stephen Jay Gould, John Kenneth Galbraith, David Remnick, Malcolm Gladwell, Michael Lewis, Nicholas Kristof, Charlie Pierce, C.L.R. James, Richard Ben Cramer.
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David,
start with "Rough Meditations" for lighter (and cheaper) reading, then "Wide Open Fairways." "Discovering Donald Ross" is the serious one, priced accordingly -- not the $200 Amazon first edition but the $65 second one.
I've been eyeing 'Wide Open Fairways', but decided to get 'Rough Meditations' based on this ordering. Like others above, I generally buy all my books in e-book form. The one exception is golf books, which I like to have physical copies of. Love the introduction of e-book, but I'd probably get the hard copy anyway.