An amazing book combining baseball, religion, and family

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	• The Brothers K David James Duncan Dial Press Trade Paperback, 1996 - 656 pages average customer review:based on 117 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

It's difficult to read this one quietly!

I'd rate this novel next to A Prayer for Owen Meany on my top 10 reads. I teared up twice (on the bus) while reading this. When I wasn't crying I was laughing! I'm certainly not a baseball fan, but baseball in the book IS a religion. The sheer love in that family blows me away! Sheer entertainment value aside, the plot and character development are superb! As outlandish as it gets you're left feeling that is strangly REAL.

Excellent - but not his best

(Sigh) David James Duncan is such an amazing story teller that no review can do any justice to his works. If someone walked up to me and asked, "What makes him such a good author?" I would have to respond that it is his characters. I've been delving into my mind trying to think of any living author today who matches up with Duncan's characters, and none come to mind. The Brother's K is such a special story because Duncan pay enormous amounts of attention to each individual family member and tells their separate life stories (and of course their contribution to the family as a whole). To be fair, I need to declare that I had two minor problems with the novel. #1 The ending was so cheesy that I actually had to drop a star from its rating. In fact, it took away from the novel because it was on the brink of being ridiculous. #2 There were numerous references to baseball in the novel, which was fine with me because I'm a baseball fan. However, a person not knowledgeable in baseball will likely find the baseball sections to be puzzling at best and quite possibly tedious. Perhaps it's because I related to "The River Why?" more than "The Brother's K," but I feel that the former is the superior work. Does anyone know if Duncan is going to write any more novels?

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Baseball Meets Theology

What a wonderfully quick and fulfilling read. Enter into the life of the Chance family as they deal with the Vietnam War, used-up baseball player father, East Asian philosphy brother, and a prosletyzing mother. The characters come alive with Duncan's descriptions. Sometimes so unbelieveable it has to be true. An outstanding holiday read.

An amazing book combining baseball, religion, and family

Seldom do I LOVE a book, but this one did it for me. From all the baseball references, to the religious conflicts, the Vietnam war, and growing up in the 60's and 70's this book certainly covered a lot of ground, and did it well. Very well written, not a book you would skim, rather one you savor and enjoy until its last page. I laughed out loud a couple of times, and was moved to tears at others. Definately - a MUST read.

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one of the finest american novels

It is impossible to read this book and not fall in love with it

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