Review: it's very good, and it's very authentic, and it's well written
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 13, 2013
upfront, let me just say that i got this book on a kindle sale day, either free or .99. it was like a lot of books i "buy" from the kindle discount sites around the web these days. it sounded o.k., it was the right price, and it was another book to stock into my kindle, should i ever run out of books to read on it (not likely at the present time).it's not really in my preferred genre.  i do try not read exclusively any one genre, but i do have a very definite preference- i actually prefer to just read sci-fi, but i don't think that is a good idea- it's nice to read some other genres from time to time. plus, i will read anything if it's well written. and this is.it is a man's point of view here, and it's startling because i don't think i have ever encountered a book that reads kind of like "chick lit", except written by and about, and narrated by, a guy. and it's an interesting story;  it's interesting plus it's clearly coming from a real person, it's not an attempt to make up a narrator. one feels as though the voice of the guy in the book is a real person, maybe the writer himself. anyway, it's a good book, and it's well worth reading.i am so not into reading about sports, running, or vegas, or golf, or any of the other things this book is about, but because it all advances the main story, a guy's search for meaning in his life, i read it. and enjoyed it, skimming over a few descriptions of the sports in question. i also loved the area the author was writing about- i know that area in so cal, and i loved reading about it.the main thing is, this guy in the book is searching, and there are friends, family, and a girl involved here. not gonna get into any spoilers, but just want to say that although i picked this book out of a rather huge pool of books i could read, and i read it to just read something different before i went back to vampires and spaceships, i gradually started to get into the narrative, and to feel that this is not just any book. it became a special book.because of the way it is told, because of the character of the person telling the story, because of the events that transpire, it drew me in. thanks btw, to the author for giving me an inside look into a guy's brain. thanks, handy, wish i had known these things many years ago, but it does do quite a bit to explain the internal dialogue of a male, intelligent as that male might be.highly recommend. this is a very entertaining book that i found to be irresistible. i'd buy it if i were you. i had trouble putting the book down.