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There are terrible sportsbooks, and then there are really horrendously worst-than-terrible sportsbooks. This year we combed through all the sportsbooks introduced this year and found one that is – on manly levels — the worst sportsbook released in 2021. Written by Sammy Sportface, some pariah I know, the book titled Goat Season: Tom Brady’s Odyssey to Beat Belichick to 7 Super Bowl Titles was published on Amazon.com. Three months after posting, no one has bought the book. A business boondoggle.
Click here and check it out:
https://www.amazon.com/GOAT-
The central flaw in this book, apparently, is that it doesn’t hold the reader’s attention. I fell on this bomb a few weeks after I sent it to a book reviewer. Instead of writing a review that he admitted would be completely negative, he instead sent this note to go under the covers on what he really thought.
“So far I am not enjoying this. It just doesn’t make much sense. I did skim the contents and it looks like it’s going to be even more convoluted and to be totally honest, I would have stopped reading a while ago. I don’t publish negative reviews on my blog, preferring to provide that feedback to the author or publisher directly. Hence, why I am writing. It just is not keeping my interest as a story. There isn’t anything I like about it.”
Let’s take that in that heartfelt feedback one more time nice and slow again: The book doesn’t hold his interest and there’s nothing he likes about it.
Which begs the question: Did this reviewer just not understand the book or did he understand it and still conclude he didn’t care for it? Does this really matter in the long run?
Being the author of this book, I have to tell you I honestly don’t care whether this reviewer liked the book or not because I loved writing it. Does the book make sense? To me it does but I can see how someone would say it doesn’t. Is it interesting? Yes, actually. But that depends on whether you like absurdity and incoherence. If you’re into those things, the book is interesting but if you want sequential logic and a tight plotline you won’t like this book unless you’re cool.
Which all reminds me of a book I read in college for an English course called “Pamela.” It’s a 700-page tome about a young girl who spends the entire book upstairs in a room thinking about what everybody else in her family is thinking about her and it never really goes anywhere. At the end of our class discussions, a student asked the professor why we read the book because it didn’t seem to be very good. “I wanted you to have the experience of reading a bad book,” he said.
It was a moving moment and the most memorable takeaway from all the English classes I went through in college. In order to appreciate a good book, the lesson was, you have to read a bad one so you have context from which to compare them.
Do I think my book is the worst book released in 2021? Yes. But it’s different, exploratory, groundbreaking, and unlike anything you’ve ever read. It may be the most original and pioneering literary work they’ve you’ll ever read. It’s ahead of its time and may be more appreciated posthumously.
This all comes down to how you see the world and choose to experience it. Do you like to laugh? This is the book for you. I am confident in this. Do you like to laugh and not know why you’re laughing? This is the book for you. Do you like your sports stories to veer off in unexpected and exciting directions that you’ve never experienced before? This is the book for you.
This is the truth we have to get our heads around. We can go on we can with our lives dismissing this book as a piece of trash. But that might be the biggest mistake you ever made in your life. Maybe the book will move you. Maybe you’ll see what a book should be through an entirely new kaleidoscope. Is it worth it to you to take that chance? Are you ever going to know without reading this book? Does any of this really matter in the grand scheme of things?
Of course, it doesn’t.
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