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| The Downhill Lie: A Hacker's Return to a Ruinous Sport | 
 enlarge | Author: Carl Hiaasen
Publisher: Knopf
Category: Book
List Price: $22.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  47 reviews
Sales Rank: 1809
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 4.9 x 1
ISBN: 0307266532
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.352092
EAN: 9780307266538
ASIN: 0307266532
Publication Date: May 6, 2008
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| Customer Reviews:
 Recommended for anyone who's had difficulty with golf July 12, 2008
Background: I'm a big time golfer, but have had insane difficulty in learning the sport and playing well. Despite having a wife that's a Librarian, I don't read much. When this book came across the shelf, she picked it up for me and said it was a must read.
I don't know anything about Carl Hiaasen and his previous books. What I do know is this book speaks to anyone who's had a remote difficulty with the game. So many of his stories were practically my autobiography with the sport of golf, despite my 30 years of age difference between myself and the author. I laughed out loud more times than I can remember during this book.
This book is the real Chicken Soup for the Golfer's Soul. I'm sure most golfers can relate with Carl's experiments, including buying new clubs, the latest gimmics, reading Dr. Bob Rotella, taking many lessons... anything to find that Holy Grail of playing great golf.
I highly recommend this book to anyone who has become frustrated with golf at ANY point in time.
 I'll stick with his novels... July 17, 2008
Having enjoyed several of Hiaasen's novels, "Skin Tight" being my personal favorite, I had high hopes for this book. Although there are several funny segments, the overall tone of whininess and self-flagellation got tiresome after a while. Golf is hard & frustrating, eh? Who knew?
Funny, but true July 23, 2008
Good idea of what it is like to try to get better at this game. Enjoyable read!
Enjoyable even for a non-golfer! July 24, 2008
Excellent book! Love the author's sense of humor. My husband's a long-tme golfer but I have no interest. Actually, the subject of golf is extremely boring to me. However, I purchased this audio-book for a car trip and both of us REALLY enjoyed it.
A Few Laughs But Tainted With Political Overtones July 9, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
The guy's got a good sense of humor but like all liberals he's got to inject his political ideas into a subject matter that's totally unrelated. He calls Rush Limbaugh a "gasbag" and mentions that the lovely Ann Coulter possesses a "sex dungeon". Nice guy. He can make all the commentary he wants about the state of the world as he sees it but Rush is a "gasbag"! What a seething hypocrite! The only highlight for me was that Mike Lupica was bitten by a deer tick while playing a round. That was good news. He's another winin' liberal! God bless President Bush, Vice President Cheney, Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter!
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