I might have to return to this because it got higher ratings than I gave it. I just couldn't get past the transcript aspect of it--very interruptive.
MI might have to return to this because it got higher ratings than I gave it. I just couldn't get past the transcript aspect of it--very interruptive.
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I might have to return to this because it got higher ratings than I gave it. I just couldn't get past the transcript aspect of it--very interruptive....more
The book was awfully precious at the beginning, with much bragging about the Manhattan upper class and the exclusive schools they go to. As it progresThe book was awfully precious at the beginning, with much bragging about the Manhattan upper class and the exclusive schools they go to. As it progresses, it becomes more of a narrative of the author's relationship to the tennis coach from her school. The tennis coach, Gary Wilensky, is a preteen stalker who establishes elaborate relationships with the girls on the tennis team. He is beloved by the girls and trusted by their parents., but his attention seems creepy. He buys a shack in the country that he fills with instruments of torture, which is evidently his end game. Despite the author's posthumous interest in Wilensky, she is strangely miffed that she wasn't his #1. The actual #1 and her mother were brutally stabbed by Wilensky before he he put a shotgun in this mouth and blasted himself into history.
Rather strange book, but the author is in many ways as obsessive as the coach/stalker.
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The book was awfully precious at the beginning, with much bragging about the Manhattan upper class and the exclusive schools they go to. As it progresses, it becomes more of a narrative of the author's relationship to the tennis coach from her school. The tennis coach, Gary Wilensky, is a preteen stalker who establishes elaborate relationships with the girls on the tennis team. He is beloved by the girls and trusted by their parents., but his attention seems creepy. He buys a shack in the country that he fills with instruments of torture, which is evidently his end game. Despite the author's posthumous interest in Wilensky, she is strangely miffed that she wasn't his #1. The actual #1 and her mother were brutally stabbed by Wilensky before he he put a shotgun in this mouth and blasted himself into history.
Rather strange book, but the author is in many ways as obsessive as the coach/stalker....more
Brilliant exposition of author's life as he slowly dies of lung cancer; profound questions into science versus being; tear-inducing epilogue by wife.
MBrilliant exposition of author's life as he slowly dies of lung cancer; profound questions into science versus being; tear-inducing epilogue by wife.
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Brilliant exposition of author's life as he slowly dies of lung cancer; profound questions into science versus being; tear-inducing epilogue by wife....more
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