Backlund: From All-American Boy to Professional Wrestling's World Champion


Bob Backlund's rise from a Minnesota farm boy, to world champ, to congressional contender, back to wrestling manager.......to get his autograph these days, you need to name all of out presidents....in order....

he was influenced by bob dylan and prince.

finishing up The Returned......so far a good story.

Just finished: The Boys In The Boat, by Daniel James Brown.

Now: Stealing Dylan From Woodstock, by Ray Foulk.

A LIFE IN PARTS------ BRYAN CRANSTON

finished The Returned....cant recommend......well written...great characterization...potentially fun premise but fundamental problems with story including depiction and cynicism and very subtle propoganda.

next book is Casino Moon by Peter Blauner from hard case crime.
this book has recieved lavish praise heaped upon it from a star studded diverse group which includes the following luminaries : stephen king.........james ellroy..........patricia highsmith............nelson demille............scott turow..............james patterson...........melania trump.

james ellroy wrote the two great novels of the last twenty five years

American Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand

read em in order because they are timely

read em in order because the one begets the other

hurry before the millennials raised by soccer moms read his memoirs and throw the hotties out with the holy water

his others aint chopped liver either.

Ellroy's memoir My Dark Places is my favorite book of his. I like his fiction, too, but sometimes it can be a little over the top.

Right now I'm reading Pen Men: Baseball's Greatest Bullpen Stories by the Men Who Brought the Game Relief (1992) by Bob Cairns. A really well-done oral history consisting mainly of relief pitchers (big names like Eck, Goose, Fingers, Face, Wilhelm as well as lesser-known guys) plus some catchers and managers (Tim McCarver, Smokey Burgess, Sparky Anderson, Whitey Herzog, etc.).

the pitchers and the catchers were pen pals.

You know it's a funny thing. No matter what else I may be reading, each time I observe this thread, it is exactly what I'm reading.

I used to read a lot(of fiction).But havent read much last few years.I did read my first autobiography by an actor-James Garner.He wrote it when he was 81yo.I found it interesting.My favorite mysteries are 11 Martin Beck books written by swedish writer Per Wähloo
/i like martin cruz books-author of Gorky Park & other novels set in russia/and i like the girl with dragon tattoo and subsequent novels

you might be interested in the inspector erlunder books by arnaldur indridason.