From Booking Through Thursday:
First:
* Do you or have you ever read books about the Olympics? About sports in general?
* Fictional ones? Or non-fiction? Or both?And, Second:
* Do you consider yourself a sports fan?
* Because, of course, if you’re a rabid fan and read about sports constantly, there’s a logic there; if you hate sports and never read anything sports-related, that, too … but you don’t have to love sports to enjoy a good sports story.
* (Or a good sports movie, for that matter. Feel free to expand this into a discussion about “Friday Night Lights” or “The Natural” or whatever…)
I vaguely remember reading books about the first modern Olympics, but I think it may have been a movie as well.
The only sports I really follow are horse racing, figure skating and (very casually) hockey, so unless Dick Francis novels, and that one Sara Paretsky novel about the hockey player named Boom-Boom, count, I haven’t read anything about sports, either.
I do love a good skating movie, though. Like the original The Cutting Edge.
The Cutting Edge – wow that brings back memories. I didn’t even think of the Dick Francis books. I love Sid Halley.
I’m watching the Olympics, especially Michael Phelps. Come see my response.
Oh yeah, Dick Francis – I forgot all about him. I think I remember reading one of his novels many years ago. Well, that should absolutely count as a sports book, I think.
Oh…I loved The Cutting Edge! Everytime I watch it I have “Toe Pick” running through my head for days !
Me too!!! I mean, i loved the Cutting Edge as well…:)