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So long Goldman Sachs, the inscrutable, all-powerful money-making machine. Hello Goldman Sachs, re-committed to being an all-powerful money-making machine.
Goldman dumped a 60-something page report on the public on Tuesday after an extensive review of the company was carried out by something it calls its "Business Standards Committee." This is a newish committee made up mainly of Goldman Sachs executives, plus one or two people intended to add outside perspective, such as Wal-Mart Chairman Lee Scott.
The choice of Scott has a certain poetry to it. It's as if Goldman, not knowing or trusting any ordinary people it could consult with to see how its behavior affects them, figured it would talk to someone who got very rich by understanding how to sell stuff to ordinary people.
But Scott only knows one way to sell stuff to ordinary people -- make it really cheap. Goldman apparently took that advice to heart when writing up its report. It's filled with cheap phrases like "the firm's culture has been the cornerstone of our performance for decades," and "the Committee believes all financial institutions, including Goldman Sachs, bear responsibility for constantly improving practices and procedures relating to the marketing and distribution of structured products." How bold.
Like many Goldman documents, the report veers from emptiness into absurdity. Take the list of abbreviations. Among TheStreet's favorites are EMD for Extended Managing Director and TCM, for Transaction Class Matrix.
And the report would not be complete without a flash of the trademark Goldman arrogance.
"We believe the recommendations contained in this report represent a fundamental re-commitment by Goldman Sachs: a re-commitment to our clients and the primacy of their interests; a re-commitment to reputational excellence associated with everything the firm does; a re-commitment to transparency of our business performance and risk management practices; a re-commitment to strong, accountable processes that reemphasize the importance of appropriate behavior and doing the right thing; and a re-commitment to making the firm a better institution."
In other words: We took a look at what we were doing. Ah, that was refreshing. Now let's go do it some more.
TheStreet Says: 60+ pages of "re-commitment" to assure customers you'll get serious about everything you do? Forgive us if we're not reassured. 4. 50 Cent's Penny Pump
The curious case of rapper 50 Cent using his Twitter account to endorse a stock in which he has a large investment could represent an evolutionary step in the blurring of the lines between celebrity endorsement and questionable stock advice.
While we don't know of any Securities and Exchange Commission cases revolving around Tweets, that day may not be far off. Maybe the SEC can announce the case against 50 Cent through its own Twitter feed, which would be a nice touch.
It's a tangled web that celebrities are weaving when it comes to stock picking, and in the least it's dangerous terrain, especially based on the fact that 50 Cent's name has a higher monetary value than the stock he was recommending as a great investment.
Much more value, actually. Before 50 Cent's Twitter recommendation sent shares of H&H Imports up near 300%, shares of the penny stock were trading at the lowest share price in their history. In a numerical irony, H&H's highest stock value occurred in June 2010, when it was trading at, yes, exactly the mark of 50 cents.
50 Cent and his lawyers are clearly concerned. 50 Cent's first Twitter post about H&H stated, "HNHI is the stock symbol for TVG there launching 15 different products. They are no joke get in now."
H&H makes a 50 Cent-endorsed line of headphones -- and when we say "makes" it's in the loosest sense of the term since H&H only has a headphone prototype, and at the recent Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas 50 Cent only had a picture of the prototype to show. Heck, even Lady Gaga was getting in on the action at CES, putting in an appearance on CNBC as well to talk up her Polaroid-branded products with Maria Bartiromo.
Once the mainstream press picked up on 50 Cent Securities, LLC's Twitter recommendations, the rapper dramatically altered his flow, going from spittin' hot fire about H&H to taking a page from an E.F. Hutton ad, Tweeting "HNHI is the right investment for me it may or may not be right for you! Do ur homework." Then reminding them that "I own HNHI stock thoughts on it are my opinion. Talk to financial advisor about it."
50 Cent owns 7.5 million shares of the company and the warrants on an additional 22.5 million shares for which he paid a total of $750,000, or 10 cents a share. Last Friday, right before 50 Cent began tweeting about H&H, shares doubled to 10 cents. By Monday, shares soared to 45 cents after the 50 Cent call -- a paper gain of $5.2 million. By the end of trading Thursday, H&H shares were back at 27 cents.
Once the media picked up on the potential "pump and dump" controversy, a 50 Cent spokesman pointed out that the rapper's shares were restricted, meaning that they could not be immediately sold as the share price jumped. Still, there were certainly some savvy investors who won on the churn.
TheStreet Says: We can see the new CNBC lineup now -- Lady Gaga replaces Erin Burnett while 50 takes over for Bartiromo. 3. Bill Gross Bugs Out
Bill Gross, founder and co-chief investment officer of Pacific Investment Management Co., dug deep into his literary tool belt for his latest investment outlook that was posted on the company's Web site last week.
"We are all ... mantises eating and being eaten, mindlessly thrusting and flailing about in activity that would make little sense to a visitor from another space-time."
From there it's on to references to Ahab, Buddha, the Dali Lama and so on and so on. But mantises are the key, make no mistake. We are all mantises of one sex or another.
Now, we have to admit, this caught our attention last week and, in hindsight, should have been a shoe-in for this column. Other dumbness, however, took precedent. It's an unfortunate reality of the gig.
Thankfully, Gross wasn't done this week patting himself on the back for his brilliant bon mots. He just can't let go of the mantis. That, and did you catch that he's read a lot of books? He's a worldly guy, OK.
"I used the praying mantis metaphor in my recent investment outlook pointing out that there are consequences for mindless political thrusting and Washington spending policies. We as Americans eventually lose our heads the way a male mantis does in the process of reproduction," said Gross during an interview with Bloomberg. "The point is the current and future generations of American mantises, male or female, will pay for this in terms of a price."
Bill, we get it. We got it last week. You see irrational, irresponsible behavior going on. Why it had to be sexually-tinged irrational and irresponsible behavior is beyond us, but, you know, your call. Now, can you please never mention this again, or at least find a way to do so that makes you sound less like a tittering 13-year old with few friends and a penchant for burning ants with a magnifying glass?
TheStreet Says: Any reason you couldn't have gone with lemmings? 2. Sears Signs On the Kardashians
Sears is looking to capture some of that Kardashian magic.
The long-suffering and almost irrelevant retailer sparked some buzz this week with the announcement that the Kardashian Kollection will be hitting store shelves at 400 stores in August. We can only assume this is phase two in the Kardashian sisters outreach program to the lower-income consumer, the first being their incredibly successful dive into the fee-laden prepaid credit card market that they had to back out of last month.
And when we think Kardashian, we immediately think of Sears. The collection, sorry, "Kollection," reportedly will consist of 60 pieces of jewelry, 30 bags, a dozen shoes and 40 apparel items. It's a natural synergy and we're sure the "Kollection" will look great right next to the Land's End merchandise.
"The exciting new collection will embrace Kim's glamorous red carpet looks, Kourtney's more Bohemian chic vibe and Khloe's rocker style," read Sears' announcement of the new line. "From timely pieces to fashionably tailored looks, the collection will appeal to all women who love fashion."
Sears has a great track record of pairing celebrities and its special brand of fashion. LL Cool J launched a line with the retailer in 2008 that sold so well that in 2009 LL Cool J himself had to come out and reassure people that the line was selling just fine and that there was no problem with his relationship with Sears.
And things are on the rise at Sears. This week the retailer reported that same-store sales were down 6% domestically in December and were down 3.8% for the year to date.
Unfortunately for Sears, the Kardashian Kollection announcement came out the same week that Advertising Age published the results of a study showing the ineffectiveness of celebrity endorsements. According to AdAge, the majority of television ads featuring celebrities in 2010 underperformed for brands, with less than 12% of the ads resulting in a greater than 10% lift for a brand. Granted, the study dealt explicitly with celebrity television spots and not c-list celebrity clothing lines, so we're sure the Kardashian's will fare better than Tiger Woods or Lance Armstrong or any other people with actual accomplishments under their belts.
TheStreet Says: Things must be bad when you turn to the Kardashian's as the first step in the road back to relevance.
1. Tostitos' Inside Man
Sports commentator, and we use the term commentator loosely here, Brent Musburger knows on which side his tortilla chip is salsa-ed.
The sports blogosphere was abuzz with accusations Tuesday that Musburger and Disney-owned ESPN cashed in for Tostitos chips before the game-winning field goal on the last play of the Tostitos BCS National Championship Game between Auburn and Oregon.
Musburger, calling the game Monday night for ESPN, said before the 19-yard-field goal by Auburn kicker Wes Byrum that gave No. 1 Auburn a 22-19 victory:
"This is for all the Tostitos."
Man that's catchy. It just rolls off the tongue, doesn't it? And who would call out Musburger for attempting a blatant and incredibly awkward product placement for those footing the bill for such a spectacle? Turns out, pretty much everyone.
Darren Rovell, CNBC sports business writer, had Tweeted that the product mention was worth $2.5 million. He then dutifully followed up with a Tweet from a spokesperson for Tostitos maker Frito-Lay, a unit of Pepsico , saying that the company did not pay for the one-liner. ESPN said it had nothing to do with it either.
Sadly, this wasn't even close to the first time Musburger has trotted out this clunky, wannabe catch phrase. It turns out that Musburger had used the same line in 2002 when Ohio State beat Michigan and would go on to play in the, why of course, Tostitos Fiesta Bowl national championship game against Miami.
TheStreet Says:Hard to beat Chris Berman's "back, back, back, back ..." home run calls, but Musburger gets added failure points for embedding corporate shilling into a signature phrase.


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You will need two serial ports, 1 at 38.4 to receive the AIS data from the SH radio and another at 4800 baud to send the GPS position data from the computer to the SH radio.
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This is only a major issue if I try to do Bluetooth from radio to netbook, because the serial to Bluetooth adapters are so expensive ($50-100 per port) that I would want to minimize the number of COM ports. If I instead make a hardwire connection I can afford to split things up over multiple COM ports because serial to USB connectors are very inexpensive (<$10) and I can use a hub to aggregate them all into one USB wire going to the cockpit. (Yes, I plan to mount my netbook in the cockpit, since I'm a daysailor who picks my conditions carefully. I sailed all season last year without a drop of water getting into the cockpit.)
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Despite feeling 'really good,' D-backs' Chase Anderson takes a loss to Milwaukee
PHOENIX — Sometimes feeling good on the pitcher's mound doesn't equate to wins.
That was the case for Arizona Diamondbacks' rookie right-hander Chase Anderson Thursday.
Anderson didn't allow a hit until the fifth inning and pitched six strong innings, but took a 4-1 loss to the Milwaukee Brewers in the finale of a four-game series at Chase Field.
"I felt really good out there — that was one of the better days I've felt out there on the mound," Anderson said. "You know, they had a couple bloop hits and I limited the damage, but it just wasn't enough today."
Anderson, who fell to 5-2 on the season, yielded just five hits and struck out four, but didn't help himself in the field. With one out in the sixth, Milwaukee shortstop Jean Segura bounced a high chopper to the third-base side of the mound. Anderson fielded it, but his throw to first baseman Paul Goldschmidt was in the dirt and skittered to the fence, allowing Segura to reach second base. He'd score two batters later when Aramis Ramirez singled to left field past a diving Didi Gregorius to give Milwaukee a 3-1 lead.
"I should have just ate it. I should have known he was a fast runner," Anderson said. "I should said 'that's a hit' and gone back to the mound, but I guess it was the adrenaline going — you want to throw it and try to get him out but I should know he's a fast runner and not do that."
Despite the costly error, Anderson's manager was pleased with the youngster's performance.
"He gave us a chance to win," Kirk Gibson said. "I decided to take him out of the game — he's a young kid and was close to 90 pitches. With how their offense was setting up, I let (Oliver Perez) come in that inning — he hadn't pitched in a while.
"But I thought he did his job and gave us a chance to win."
The Diamondbacks averaged 9.0 runs in Anderson's first five starts, which were all wins. In his last two outings, however, the runs have been harder to come by. Arizona pushed across just one run in the right-hander's last start — a loss to the Dodgers in Los Angeles — and one more Thursday.
"Overall, Chase has been really good for us," Gibson said. "I'll take care of him and kind of watch his innings as we go along. He was a reliever last year and I think he threw around 88 innings. He's close to 80 innings right now as a starter this year, so it's something we'll have to discuss."
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SwissAir's offer, tabled two days ago, trumped an improved pounds 145m bid from BAA made earlier on Wednesday.
The bid battle for Allders International began in earnest last month when airport operator BAA made a recommended pounds 130m offer for the duty- free business. Then SwissAir stepped in, saying it would pay pounds 145m, but there was initial confusion about the status of SwissAir's bid, from its Nuance International unit, with Allders saying it was not a firm offer.
However, Tony Collyer, Allders' finance director, yesterday defended the company's handling of the bid, which had raised questions about management's fiduciary duty to get the best offer for shareholders.
"Our concern was that we ended up with a firm deal but until yesterday we only had that opportunity with BAA," he said. "We could not recommend something to our shareholders that was only in the media."
Allders' decision to turn tail and back the SwissAir bid depends on shareholders voting against a resolution approving BAA's lower offer at an extraordinary general meeting on Monday. This should be a formality as BAA has already indicated it will not make a higher offer. Allders will then have to call another egm, probably early next month, to approve the SwissAir deal.
Last night BAA sought to hide its disappointment. A spokeswoman said "other options" in the duty-free area were being examined, though she declined to elaborate.
The bizarre auction has been good news for Allders shareholders, who saw the group's shares rise a further 4p to 210p yesterday.
Although duty-free shopping could disappear in Europe in 1999, SwissAir is confident about prospects for the fast-growing airport retail market. In particular, the Swiss group notes that store rental agreements are also due for re-negotiation in three years' time and that the new deals would reflect any European Union decision on duty-free.
SwissAir came in for strong criticism from some sections of the City for changing the value of its offer for Allders International on about half a dozen occasions. Estimates of how much it was prepared to pay ranged from pounds 120m-pounds 200m.
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Drew (Miami)
Was the first play of a botched handoff any cause for concern?
James Walker (4:03 PM)
Thanks for the question, Drew. It's not the way you want to start the season on offense. I will say that. But it's not something I saw in training camp. So I think it's early to say it's a cause for concern.
Ed (Queens Village)
With Sanchez starting preseason opener what percent does he start regular season opener?
James Walker (4:04 PM)
It's still 50-50, Ed. This competition is wide open and the Jets, to their credit, are providing Mark Sanchez and Geno Smith a fair shake. No one is playing favorites in Jets camp and the better QB in the preseason will win.
Candy (Slippery Rock)
Hi James, who will be backing up Lamar Miller when the season starts: Daniel Thomas, Gillislee, or Jonas Gray?
James Walker (4:06 PM)
Good question, Candy. The answer is it's still up in the air. Daniel Thomas started camp at the No. 2 RB and will be provided every opportunity to keep that spot. Keep in mind, Thomas is the most experienced rusher Miami has at the NFL level. Players like Gillislee and Gray will have to take that spot if they want it in the coming weeks. Thomas is the leader in the clubhouse.
Derrick (Garden City)
Any concerns about Mike Wallace's injury and how has he been meshing with Tannehill?
James Walker (4:08 PM)
Not from me. It's going to take time for Wallace and Tannehill to connect the same way Roethlisberger and Wallace did in Pittsburgh. This doesn't happen overnight. Wallace's injury isn't serious. Miami was just protecting its investment in the Hall of Fame game.
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Ive seen youself and a lot of the other Dolphins beat writers talk about how great the Dolphins D has looked in practice. While I have no doubt they will have a solid defense, could it be that the Dolphins OLine is that bad and making them look that much better???
James Walker (4:10 PM)
That's definitely a consideration, Adam. That's why there's some value in these preseason games. You get to compare other team's strengths with Miami's strengths. Everyone knows Miami's d-line is its strength and the o-line is not. So it's not a surprise to see Miami's defense winning most of those battles. But how does it compare against other teams? The Dolphins have five preseason games to get a look at that.
Chris (Virginia )
Are we seeing the gradual and painful death of the Pro Bowl? The new draft format seems to be the death rattle.
James Walker (4:12 PM)
I don't like the new idea, but I'm not a big Pro Bowl guy in general. In all seriousness, I would rather see an NFL fastest-man, skills and strongest-man competitions in Hawaii than to see people play football at half-speed.
James Walker (4:14 PM)
Also, would a teammate really play harder against another teammate? Do you think Patriots DT Vince Wilfork is going to rush hard and take a shot at QB Tom Brady because they're on different teams? The intensity may go down even further.
Noah Singer [via mobile]
Could it be a possibility that Dion Jordan is moved to a linebacker position
James Walker (4:15 PM)
Not full-time, Noah. Jordan has a lot of natural ability as a DE. He's athletic enough to stand up, but I wouldn't make the No. 3 overall pick play out of position full-time. Utilize his strengths. Jordan can be really good if he's coached up.
Chris Fiegler (Latham,NY)
Do you think that the Jets Should Start Geno Smith as Quarterback in the Regular Season instead of Mark Sanchez who was Terrible in 2012?
James Walker (4:18 PM)
I've been saying all along that New York should go with Geno Smith. This could be a 4-6 win team this year no matter who is the quarterback. It's best to get Smith the 16 games experience to build on 2014. Sanchez will not be on the team next year. The only reason he's still in NY is because he's owed $8.25 million guaranteed. Once that's paid, the Jets will cut bait on his big contract and go with Smith anyway. If the rookie doesn't play at all, the Jets will be starting over again on offense in 2014.
Brandon (Maryland)
With the injuries to Ivory and Mike Goodson being a no-show, do you see Bilal Powell getting the lion's share of the carries for the Jets this season?
James Walker (4:20 PM)
Bilal Powell has been consistent, and you have to like that from the position. I don't view him as a 20-25 carry RB. But he may have to carry the load if Ivory can't stay healthy.
Fernando Bakonyi (Brazil)
What is the backup plan in case J. Martin gets hurt or does not execute well at LT? John Jerry?
James Walker (4:22 PM)
Right now the Dolphins are still trying to figure that out. As you saw Sunday, it's probably not Dallas Thomas. I don't think Nate Garner is particularly strong there, either. Jerry has some size to play tackle. But it's hard to count on him due to his weight.
Tommy (Carol City, Fl)
Bumphis looked pretty good sunday , think he has a chance to make roster?
James Walker (4:24 PM)
Yes, Tommy. The No. 4, No. 5 and No. 6 receiver spots are wide open. It can really be anyone filling those roles. Bumphis has been a player who's consistently done well in training camp. If he keeps this up in the preseason, the Dolphins will keep him as a backup.
Mark (Ballston Spa, NY)
Is it too early to panic on Miami's Left Tackle situation?
James Walker (4:24 PM)
Yes, too early for panic. But it's not too early to have questions.
Steven (Alpharetta,Ga)
Dolphins seem to me to be better (on paper) than last year but I'm starting to get the feeling this is gonna be a rough start till they gel, what do you think?
James Walker (4:27 PM)
I think Miami's season pretty much will be decided in the first five games. It's a brutal schedule that includes @CLE, @Indy, ATL, @NO and Baltimore. We will pretty much know if the Dolphins are pretenders or contenders after this slate. If Miami starts 1-4 or 0-5, its playoff hopes are over. If the Dolphins are 3-2 or 4-1, that should prove they're a good team.
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Seems like I rarely hear anything on clabo, where does he fit in the mix
James Walker (4:28 PM)
Clabo has quietly done his job in training camp. That's a good thing.
Rich (New Jersey)
Hi Jim, Any idea how much playing time and what position Tim Tebow will see this weekend in the Patriots 1st pre season game?
James Walker (4:29 PM)
The Patriots have been very secretive about their plans for Tim Tebow. But that's how they operate. We probably won't know how much Tebow will play until closer to game time. But as the No. 3 quarterback, he should get at least one quarter of work.
Biggie (Denver)
Over/under for Miller: 1000 yds 10 tds
James Walker (4:31 PM)
I don't predict stats, Biggie. Injuries and staying healthy are too much of a wild card. If Miller plays all 16 games and avoids injuries, I think he will have a good year. I like him as a runner.
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Do you think the performance in trainig camp an preseason of aaron williams as a safety, would affect the final aprouch of de front office of the bills in negotiations with J. Byrd ?
James Walker (4:34 PM)
Not at all, Manuel, because there are no additional negotiations with Byrd. The franchise-tag deadline passed last month and that was the last time the team and Byrd could talk contract. The only thing he can do now is play for the one-year tag or not show up. Perhaps both sides could reach an agreement not to tag Byrd again. But that's the only thing left to discuss.
Lincoln (Carol City)
Rank the following WRs based on their camp performance so far: Marvin McNutt, Brian Tyms, Chad Bumphis.
James Walker (4:36 PM)
In practice, McNutt, Bumphis and Tyms. But the preseason will have a lot to do with the decision.
Bobby (Upstate NY)
Why are the Bills dragging they're feet about Byrd? Give him his $ already they have plenty of cap room?
James Walker (4:37 PM)
Bills fans, the team can no longer negotiate with Byrd. That deadline passed in July due to the franchise tag. Buffalo is willing to pay him top-five money for this year. But that's it. Maybe that changes next offseason.
Jamayel (Homestead, FL)
Has Michael Egnew done enough to earn a roster spot? Will he ever be a successful football player?
James Walker (4:40 PM)
Egnew is still on the bubble, Jamayel. He made some plays against Dallas, which is big for him. But Egnew doesn't play special teams and he doesn't block well. He doesn't bring much value to the Dolphins other than being a pass-catching threat. So Egnew has to show that as much as possible to make the 53-man roster.
Trevor (NYC)
Do you think starting EJ Manuel Week 1 would be an unwise decision by Buffalo (regardless of necessity)?
James Walker (4:41 PM)
If EJ Manuel is the better quarterback in training camp and the preseason, you play him. But I don't see Manuel beating Tom Brady and the Patriots in his first NFL game.
Nick (Salem, WVirginia)
Now that Miami has tied up Reshad for 4 yrs who's next to get paid? Can't believe Bills are letting Byrd dangle?
James Walker (4:43 PM)
That's it for the Dolphins. But they wrote so many checks this offseason that the team better hope it pans out. The Bills took that approach in 2012 and it didn't work. I think that impacted Buffalo's thinking this year. It's hard to go on a spending spree in consecutive years in the NFL, especially if the results were the same.
Lance (Plantation,FL)
Any chance Fins get rid of Ireland if they don't have a winning season or is it on the coaches now?
James Walker (4:46 PM)
This is a big year for GM Jeff Ireland. The owner opened his pockets and allowed Ireland to spend his money. Stephen Ross wants to see results. The coaching staff is only in Year 2 and did well by winning seven games last season. They are fine this year.
Frankie (NC)
I agree with you on Martin but at this point is there anything else Miami can do in FA to back him up if he does'nt perform?
James Walker (4:47 PM)
Left tackles don't grow on trees. The Dolphins had some options this offseason via the draft, trades, etc. and didn't make a move. They are "ride or die" with Jonathan Martin now at LT. You're not going to find a Pro Bowl replacement at this stage.
Tim (Las Vegas)
At what point does qb competition work against your team and actually hamper development on offense?
James Walker (4:49 PM)
It's different for every team, Tim. Some players handle it better than others. The character of your players is being tested, because the players who respond the best to competition succeed. Some do not respond well. We will find out how things work for New York and Buffalo as the season progresses.
Matt (Orlando) [via mobile]
The Dolphins were awful last year on pass defense. Do you see any improvement coming?
James Walker (4:52 PM)
Yes, Matt. I would be shocked if Miami doesn't improve on its 27th ranking this year in pass defense. Brent Grimes has been a terrific addition at cornerback. He changes the dynamics in the secondary already. I think the other corners like Richard Marshall, who is healthy now, Dimitri Patters and the rookies will add more depth than they had last year.
Dale (Iowa)
Should the Jets get rid of Sanchez if he has another disappointing season?
James Walker (4:53 PM)
Unless Mark Sanchez makes the Pro Bowl this year, I don't see why the Jets would keep his large contract for another year.
Daniel (Oakland)
Is Byrd still on the bills if he doesn't sign
James Walker (4:55 PM)
Yes, the Bills still own his rights. Byrd can't sign with another team.
Andrew (Atlanta)
Ryan Tannehill doesn't look like he has taken any steps towards becoming elite as of yet...is it too early to worry?
James Walker (4:57 PM)
Yes, it's too early. The Dolphins have five preseason games. There is plenty of time. Ryan Tannehill also didn't play with his two starting receivers on Sunday.
James Walker (5:00 PM)
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North Korea said it will conduct a nuclear test, a key step in the manufacture of atomic bombs, but also said it's committed to disarmament—suggesting that the whole thing is a bargaining ploy.
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North Korea triggered global alarm on Tuesday by saying it will conduct a nuclear test, a key step in the manufacture of atomic bombs that it views as a deterrent against any U.S. attack. But the North also said it was committed to nuclear disarmament, suggesting a willingness to negotiate.
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Netherlandby Joseph O'Neill
New York Times Book Review Best Book of the Year
In a New York City made phantasmagorical by the events of 9/11, and left alone after his English wife and son return to London, Hans van den Broek stumbles upon the vibrant New York subculture of cricket, where he revisits his lost childhood and, thanks to a friendship with a charismatic and charming/b>
New York Times Book Review Best Book of the Year
In a New York City made phantasmagorical by the events of 9/11, and left alone after his English wife and son return to London, Hans van den Broek stumbles upon the vibrant New York subculture of cricket, where he revisits his lost childhood and, thanks to a friendship with a charismatic and charming Trinidadian named Chuck Ramkissoon, begins to reconnect with his life and his adopted country. As the two men share their vastly different experiences of contemporary immigrant life in America, an unforgettable portrait emerges of an "other" New York populated by immigrants and strivers of every race and nationality.
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Tony award-winner Jefferson Mays (I Am My Own Wife) follows the lead of author O'Neill for his reading of the lauded novel about Dutchman Hans van der Broek and the unusual bond he forms with fellow cricket buff and New York dreamer extraordinaire Chuck Ramkissoon. O'Neill's crisp, layered narrative and interest in the less-traveled byways of Brooklyn are reflected in Mays's understated take on Hans's narration (interestingly, he does not attempt a Dutch accent); Chuck's light, fruity Caribbean accent; and the denser accent of Chuck's wife. Mays is nothing if not a talented performer, and while there may be less than meets the eye to O'Neill's celebrated work, Mays's reading is a joy. A Pantheon hardcover (Reviews, Mar. 3).(Sept.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Hans van den Broek, the main character in this ruminative third novel (and fourth book) by Irish/Turkish/English author O'Neill (Blood-Dark Track), is a Dutch-transplanted Londoner working in New York City at the start of the 21st century. Though a successful equities analyst, Hans is given more to reverie than to action. When his wife announces she is taking their young son back to London, Hans, stunned, remains in New York. He gets drawn into a friendship of sorts with Trinidadian entrepreneur Chuck Ramkissoon, who dreams of making cricket a great American sport, and who-Hans hears later-is eventually found dead in a canal. Hans's meandering, somewhat old-fashioned narrative takes a patient reader in and out of past and present: from his cricket-playing, fatherless childhood through his distant relationship with his mother, rocky marriage, and his own fatherhood, gradually revealing the appeal of the slowly unfolding game of cricket and fast-talking Chuck Ramkissoon to a man in his early thirties finding his way in a post-9/11 world. Recommended for literary fiction collections. [See Prepub Alert, LJ2/15/08.]
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"Stunning . . . with echoes of The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald's masterpiece . . . a resonant meditation on the American Dream." —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
"Exquisitely written. . . . A large fictional achievement, and one of the most remarkable post-colonial books I have ever read. . . . Netherland has a deep human wisdom." —James Wood, The New Yorker
"I devoured it in three thirsty gulps, gulps that satisfied a craving I didn't know I had. . . . It has more life inside it than ten very good novels." —Dwight Garner, The New York Times Book Review
"Elegant.... Always sensitive and intelligent, Netherland tells the fragmented story of a man in exile—from home, family and, most poignantly, from himself." —Washington Post Book World
"Suspenseful, artful, psychologically pitch-perfect, and a wonderful read.... Joseph O'Neill has managed to paint the most famous city in the world, and the most familiar concept in the world (love) in an entirely new way" —Jonathan Safran Foer author of Everything is Illuminated
"Haunting.... O'Neill's elegant prose makes for a striking read." —Entertainment Weekly
"A beautifully written meditation on despair, loss, and exile." —USA Today
"Remarkable.... Note-perfect." —Vogue
"Outstanding.... A coming-of-middle-age tale." —Newsweek
"O'Neill's writing is unendingly beautiful." —The Los Angeles Times
"Brilliant.... A post–9/11 novel that takes us closer to understanding the emotional wreckage." —GQ
"Provocative, luminous.... A fine, darkly glowing novel." —The Boston Globe
"A dense, intelligent novel... O'Neill offers an outsider's view of New York bursting with wisdom, authenticity, and a sobering jolt of realism." —Publisher's Weekly (starred review)
"O'Neill writes a prose of Banvillean grace and beauty, shimmering with truthfulness, as poised as it is unsettling. He is a master of the long sentence, of the half-missed moment, of the strange archaeology of the troubled marriage. Many have tried to write a great American novel. Joseph O'Neill has succeeded." —Joseph O'Connor, author of Star of the Sea
"Somewhere between the towns of Saul Bellow and Ian McEwan, O'Neill has pitched his miraculous tent. Netherland is a novel about provisionality, marginality; its registers are many, one of the most potent being its extremely grown-up nostalgia. The dominant sense is of aftermath, things flying off under the impulse of an unwanted explosion, and the human voice calling everything back." —Sebastian Barry, author of A Long Long Way
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A Novel
By Joseph O'Neill Pantheon
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The afternoon before i left London for New York—Rachel had flown out six weeks previously—I was in my cubicle at work, boxing up my possessions, when a senior vice-president at the bank, an Englishman in his fifties, came to wish me well. I was surprised; he worked in another part of the building and in another department, and we were known to each other only by sight. Nevertheless, he asked me in detail about where I intended to live ("Watts? Which block on Watts?") and reminisced for several minutes about his loft on Wooster Street and his outings to the "original" Dean & DeLuca. He was doing nothing to hide his envy.
"We won't be gone for very long," I said, playing down my good fortune. That was, in fact, the plan, conceived by my wife: to drop in on New York City for a year or three and then come back.
"You say that now," he said. "But New York's a very hard place to leave. And once you do leave . . ." The S.V.P., smiling, said, "I still miss it, and I left twelve years ago."
It was my turn to smile—in part out of embarrassment, because he'd spoken with an American openness. "Well, we'll see," I said.
"Yes," he said. "You will."
His sureness irritatedme, though principally he was pitiable—like one of those Petersburgians of yesteryear whose duties have washed him up on the wrong side of the Urals.
But it turns out he was right, in a way. Now that I, too, have left that city, I find it hard to rid myself of the feeling that life carries a taint of aftermath. This last-mentioned word, somebody once told me, refers literally to a second mowing of grass in the same season. You might say, if you're the type prone to general observations, that New York City insists on memory's repetitive mower—on the sort of purposeful postmortem that has the effect, so one is told and forlornly hopes, of cutting the grassy past to manageable proportions. For it keeps growing back, of course. None of this means that I wish I were back there now; and naturally I'd like to believe that my own retrospection is in some way more important than the old S.V.P.'s, which, when I was exposed to it, seemed to amount to not much more than a cheap longing. But there's no such thing as a cheap longing, I'm tempted to conclude these days, not even if you're sobbing over a cracked fingernail. Who knows what happened to that fellow over there? Who knows what lay behind his story about shopping for balsamic vinegar? He made it sound like an elixir, the poor bastard.
At any rate, for the first two years or so of my return to England, I did my best to look away from New York—where, after all, I'd been unhappy for the first time in my life. I didn't go back there in person, and I didn't wonder very often about what had become of a man named Chuck Ramkissoon, who'd been a friend during my final East Coast summer and had since, in the way of these things, become a transitory figure. Then, one evening in the spring of this year, 2006, Rachel and I are at home, in Highbury. She is absorbed by a story in the newspaper. I have already read it. It concerns a group of tribespeople that has emerged from the Amazon forest in Colombia. They are reportedly tired of the hard jungle life, although it's noted they still like nothing better than to eat monkey, grilled and then boiled. A disturbing photograph of a boy gnawing at a blackened little skull illustrates this fact. The tribespeople have no idea of the existence of a host country named Colombia, and no idea, more hazardously, of diseases like the common cold or influenza, against which they have no natural defenses.
"Hello," Rachel says, "your tribe has come to light."
I'm still smiling when I answer the ringing phone. A New York Times reporter asks for Mr. van den Broek.
The reporter says, "This is about Kham, ah, Khamraj Ramkissoon . . . ?"
"Chuck," I say, sitting down at the kitchen table. "It's Chuck Ramkissoon."
She tells me that Chuck's "remains" have been found in the Gowanus Canal. There were handcuffs around his wrists and evidently he was the victim of a murder.
I don't say anything. It seems to me this woman has told an obvious lie and that if I think about it long enough a rebuttal will come to me.
Her voice says, "Did you know him well?" When I don't answer, she says, "It says somewhere you were his business partner."
"That's not accurate," I say.
"But you were in business together, right? That's what my note says."
"No," I say. "You've been misinformed. He was just a friend."
She says, "Oh—OK." There is a tapping of a keyboard and a hiatus.
"So—is there anything you can tell me about his milieu?"
"His milieu?" I say, startled into correcting her mooing pronunciation.
"Well, you know—who he hung out with, what kind of trouble he might have gotten himself into, any shady characters . . ." She adds with a faint laugh, "It is kind of unusual, what happened."
I realize that I'm upset, even angry.
"Yes," I finally say. "You have quite a story on your hands."
The next day a small piece runs in the Metro section. It has been established that Chuck Ramkissoon's body lay in the water by the Home Depot building for over two years, among crabs and car tires and shopping carts, until a so-called urban diver made a "macabre discovery" while filming a school of striped bass. Over the next week there is a trickle of follow-up items, none of them informative. But apparently it is interesting to readers, and reassuring to certain traditionalists, that the Gowanus Canal can still turn up a murder victim. There's death in the old girl yet, as one commentator wittily puts it.
The night we receive the news, Rachel, in bed next to me, asks, "So who's this man?" When I don't immediately answer, she puts down her book.
"Oh," I say, "I'm sure I've told you about him. A cricket guy I used to know. A guy from Brooklyn."
She repeats after me, "Chuck Ramkissoon?"
Her voice contains an amused note I don't like. I roll away onto one shoulder and close my eyes. "Yes," I say. "Chuck Ramkissoon."
Chuck and I met for the first time in August 2002. I was playing cricket at Randolph Walker Park, in Staten Island, and Chuck was present as one of the two independent umpires who gave their services in return for a fifty-dollar honorarium. The day was thick as a jelly, with a hot, glassy atmosphere and no wind, not even a breeze from the Kill of Kull, which flows less than two hundred yards from Walker Park and separates Staten Island from New Jersey. Far away, in the south, was the mumbling of thunder. It was the kind of barbarously sticky American afternoon that made me yearn for the shadows cast by scooting summer clouds in northern Europe, yearn even for those days when you play cricket wearing two sweaters under a cold sky patched here and there by a blue tatter—enough to make a sailor's pants, as my mother used to say.
By the standards I brought to it, Walker Park was a very poor place for cricket. The playing area was, and I am sure still is, half the size of a regulation cricket field. The outfield is uneven and always overgrown, even when cut (once, chasing a ball, I nearly tripped over a hidden and, to cricketers, ominous duck), and whereas proper cricket, as some might call it, is played on a grass wicket, the pitch at Walker Park is made of clay, not turf, and must be covered with coconut matting; moreover the clay is pale sandy baseball clay, not red cricket clay, and its bounce cannot be counted on to stay true for long; and to the extent that it is true, it lacks variety and complexity. (Wickets consisting of earth and grass are rich with possibility: only they can fully challenge and reward a bowler's repertoire of cutters and spinners and bouncers and seamers, and only these, in turn, can bring out and fully test a batsman's repertoire of defensive and attacking strokes, not to mention his mental powers.) There is another problem. Large trees—pin oaks, red oaks, sweetgums, and American linden trees—clutter the fringes of Walker Park. Any part of these trees, even the smallest hanging leaf, must be treated as part of the boundary, and this brings randomness into the game. Often a ball will roll between the tree trunks, and the fielder running after it will partially disappear, so that when he reemerges, ball in hand, a shouting match will start up about exactly what happened.
By local standards, however, Walker Park is an attractive venue. Tennis courts said to be the oldest in the United States neighbor the cricket field, and the park itself is surrounded on all sides by Victorian houses with elaborately planted gardens. For as long as anyone can remember, the local residents have tolerated the occasional crash of a cricket ball, arriving like a gigantic meteoritic cranberry, into their flowering shrubbery. Staten Island Cricket Club was founded in 1872, and its teams have played on this little green every summer for over a hundred years. Walker Park was owned by the club until the 1920s. Nowadays the land and its clubhouse—a neo-Tudor brick structure dating back to the 1930s, its precursor having been destroyed by fire—are the property of the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. In my time, a parks department employee, a phantom-like individual who was never seen, reportedly lived in the attic. The main room was rented out to a nursery school, and only the basement and the beaten-up locker room were routinely made available to cricketers. Nevertheless, no other New York cricket club enjoys such amenities or such a glorious history: Donald Bradman and Garry Sobers, the greatest cricketers of all time, have played at Walker Park. The old ground is also fortunate in its tranquillity. Other cricketing venues, places such as Idlewild Park and Marine Park and Monroe Cohen Ballfield, lie directly beneath the skyways to JFK. Elsewhere, for example Seaview Park (which of course has no view of a sea), in Canarsie, the setting is marred not only by screeching aircraft but also by the inexhaustible roar of the Belt Parkway, the loop of asphalt that separates much of south Brooklyn from salt water.
What all these recreational areas have in common are rank outfields that largely undermine the art of batting, which is directed at hitting the ball along the ground with that elegant variety of strokes a skillful batsman will have spent years trying to master and preserve: the glance, the hook, the cut, the sweep, the cover drive, the pull, and all those other offspring of technique conceived to send the cricket ball rolling and rolling, as if by magic, to the far-off edge of the playing field. Play such orthodox shots in New York and the ball will more than likely halt in the tangled, weedy ground cover: grass as I understand it, a fragrant plant wondrously suited for athletic pastimes, flourishes with difficulty; and if something green and grasslike does grow, it is never cut down as cricket requires. Consequently, in breach of the first rule of batting, the batsman is forced to smash the ball into the air—to go deep, as it's said, borrowing the baseball term; and batting is turned into a gamble. As a result, fielding is distorted, too, since the fielders are quickly removed from their infield positions—point, extra cover, midwicket, and the others—to distant stations on the boundary, where they listlessly linger. It's as if baseball were a game about home runs rather than base hits, and its basemen were relocated to spots deep in the outfield. This degenerate version of the sport—bush cricket, as Chuck more than once dismissed it—inflicts an injury that is aesthetic as much as anything: the American adaptation is devoid of the beauty of cricket played on a lawn of appropriate dimensions, where the white-clad ring of infielders, swanning figures on the vast oval, again and again converge in unison toward the batsman and again and again scatter back to their starting points, a repetition of pulmonary rhythm, as if the field breathed through its luminous visitors.
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Meet the Author
Joseph O'Neill was born in Cork, Ireland, in 1964 and grew up in Mozambique, South Africa, Iran, Turkey, and Holland. His previous works include the novels This Is the Life and The Breezes and the nonfiction book Blood-Dark Track, a family history centered on the mysterious imprisonment of both his grandfathers during World War II, which was a New York Times Notable Book. He writes regularly for The Atlantic Monthly. He lives with his family in New York City.
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I remember when this book first came out, there was a lot of buzz about it in various magazines and periodicals. I selected it as the first book for a book club we were starting. I thought it would be topical as it was billed as the first post-9/11 American novel to deal with subject matter related to the tragedy.
No one in our book club liked this book. I will say that the writer has a way with words and his images are poetic and beautiful. Otherwise, the book is a massive bore. Uninteresting characters placed in uninteresting circumstances reacting in uninteresting ways. The plot meanders without regard to any sort of timeline so it's not clear when events are happening in relation to one another. I feel like this book was ambitious but not fully realized.
Like the last reviewer, I recommended this book for my book club based on the buzz and the fact this book was on the best 100 and even some of the best 10 books of 2008 lists. Only one member liked it and I think that was, in part, because she is Dutch. Were the rest of us missing something? The plot was puzzling, the characters were one dimensional and even unlikable with the sole exception of Chuck, the optimistic, confident immigrant so taken with his vision of the American dream. Rachel, the wife, was whining and self centered and Hans, the main character, was so disengaged from life that he appears more like a puppy dog who plays with anyone who throws him a ball than an adult professional. Pages of descriptions of cricket did not help either. Disappointing.
This book is most definitely one of the best books I have ever read. Hans appears to be this depressed, nonchalant character that pretty much lets his marriage and life go down the drain. But, deep down, you can truly tell that he cares about his family, especially Rachel.
Chuck - Now, he's another interesting character. He seems to want to be in everything, totally risky - Kind of like your average gangster immigrant. However, he seems to like Hans more than Hans likes Chuck. Hans sort of brushes him off as a regular guy - no real intent, or friendship worth cherishing. But, yet, Chuck goes out of his way to teach him to drive, meets him in Peekskill and then share stories of his brother (whom, he states, he never told anyone else about). More so, Hans is even listed as Chuck's Business Partner.
Part of me wants to blame that on Hans. He seems to be so apathetic towards many things, that he overlooks some valuable, and outlook-changing characters, such as Chuck. It's a shame he never acknowledged him before he died.
Book is most definitely interesting. Beautifully crafted and had me on the edge of my seat the whole time. :)
"Netherland" is, quite simply, the best book I've read in many years. I finished in tears and immediately started reading it again. What a beautiful, beautiful book. I have to say I'm amazed at some of the low ratings the book has received here. I would be curious to know where the readers who rate the book with one or two stars actually live. In addition to his meditation on the 'American Dream', O'Neill perfectly captures the mood of New York City in the first years after 9/11 and it may be that the simplicity, truth and honesty of the writing affects those who witnessed it on a daily basis in a radically different way. For me, "Netherland" was one of the most powerful reading experiences I'v ever had and I cannot recommend it highly enough.
I found the book interesting to read, but it did not engage me. I read it with my book club and the book did provoke a lively discussion. I am glad I read it and thought it worthwhile. However, I would not recommend it to the casual reader. It takes perseverance to get through some of the parts.
I bought this booked based on a summer reading list I saw. What a big mistake. Post 9/11 in NYC, main character's wife leaves with child, he stays behind though they are from Europe, and meets strange people, mostly from playing cricket. Most sentences are extremely longwinded with an overuse of flowery language that causes your mind to wander. It is not written in a way to keep your attention, and I fall asleep every time I try to read it. Timeline bounces all over the place, and not in a good way. The characters seem unrelatable. I am forcing myself through this book because I feel like I must be missing something with good reviews from the literary, English major types, but I have decided they must like to pat themselves on the back when they can write a book where most sentences take up an entire paragraph. There has been nothing interesting or enjoyable about this book, and I have read many over the years. For just us regular people who like to read, I'd say this book is boring, disjointed, difficult to follow, and some parts too boring to read. It doesn't appear to get any better no matter how far into the 'story' you get.
Until we discussed this book at our monthly book club meeting,did I understand that the book is really about immigrant integration in the US.It is extremely well written but a very slow development of plot/purpose.6 of the 8 members vetoed the book at the start of our discussion. Most of us felt no connection to the main character[or any of the characters for that matter] and were totally bored with the cricket focus. Our long discussion led us to a deeper understanding that the story is perhaps a metaphor for the way the US is culturally changing with the integration of our new citizens from abroad.It took all 8 of us to figure this out and I must add that we are all highly educated serious readers.The discussion was far more interesting than the book itself!
This novel makes connections at many levels. What are the dreams that people bring to New York City and the United States? How does a couple deal with the post-traumatic shock of 9/11? How does a young man trace his identity to his homeland? What are the reflections of culture and identity in New York State, the Netherlands, and England? Brilliant book.
The writing is beautifully crafted with images I will remember long after the reading. Some of my favorites were the cricket field, NY, and later in the book with sun messing the water. London, NY, and Holland just before 911 are the settings where characters come alive with thoughts, actions, and reflections that sometimes seem dreamlike. The main character is a young man from Holland, working in London. As he travels, works, and experiences his marriage, parenthood, the sport of cricket, and some unusual friendships the plot unfolds. When I read the last sentences I was vitally aware of the growth. I thought it was a very good read and it replays in my mind even weeks after completing it. Cricket, family, NY. moms and the perspective captured me.
Netherland by Joseph O'Neill is now in paperback. Its ISBN is 007275706 and it is published by Harper. It is a complex book with long sentences balanced with elegant prose. It has many intellectual contemplations and it is indeed a great literary novel. Some readers will find its jumping back and forth in time confusing. The plot is America through immigrants eyes after Sep 11th and on the verge of the Iraq War.It discusses New York City and cricket at length, the many pages of detail I could have done without. The story centralises around Hans a banker who lives in Chelsea Hotel after 9/11. His wife Rachael has left him and taken their child to live in London. Hans is devastated and mixes with other immigrants in New York. We read of their dreams, seeing the US as outsiders looking in. His friend Chuck wants to introduce cricket into the US but then this rogue is found dead. Rachael comes back to Hans in the end. This stands as a metaphor of hope and strength and rebirth of the US. I found it unncessarily detailed and long winded in places and would have liked more development of story and characters. It is well written and I do recommend you read this. This is reviewed by Annette Dunlea author of Always and Forever and The Honey Trap.
The book reviews on this are great, the novel...not so much. To wrap it up in one fair sweep: I was bored. The entire time, bored. There was no connection between the main character and his situation. He was stale and distant from everything about his wife leaving him to his mother's death. Finally in the last paragraph, the very ending of the book does he show this bit of humanness, this bit of reality that is poetic and genuine. Oh, I tried so hard to enjoy this book, I pressed on with it though I wanted to fling it to the floor. And still after getting over half way through I hadn't even touched on anything minutely interesting, so I skipped to the last ten pages or so and claimed it finished. And even those last few pages were stale as last year's bread and I found myself blah-blahing through sentences, trudging toward the ending like through two feet of wet sand. There is nothing compelling in the story, nothing to move you forward because the main character is not compelled, he cares nothing for what comes his way, for the people around him, whether his wife comes back to him. Certainly I don't blame his wife for leaving him in the first place (which, by the way, is not even pondered by the character on why she left) because I was also ready to fly to another country and be done with this man. I'm sorry, I don't agree with the famous reviews of this one. I am dissappointed and can't believe I bought a hardback edition of this, which is going to the used bookstore today. These are the kind of books that make me think some of these book reviews have cash incentives behind them. Simply boring, a waste of my time.
This brilliantly written novel by Joseph O'neill, Netherland continuously keeps you entertained. This novel does an excellent job describing the way America is today, a mix of very diverse cultures. This story was very relatable for me as my parents are immigrants who came from a country with a very different culture. It is sometimes difficult to feel comfortable in a world that is new to someone, and O'neill does a good job of portraying that. At the beginning of the novel the Hans, A newcomer to New York City, is recently left by his wife and child. Naturally he is lonely and feels out of place. This is where I could relate to him as a minority in the United States. Later he is introduced to the world of cricket in New York, which is filled with immigrants from around the world. Before this he believes the "American Dream" had become just that, a dream, but here he learns that it is alive and well. All of his friends he makes have had to endure hard work to get to their goal in life. After a new look on life he finally goes back to London to be a better father and husband to child and wife. He plans a trip to India to develop a closer bond and presumably to enculturate his child who should learn about different cultures.
Netherland is the third novel by Irish-born author, Joseph O'Neill. Set mainly in post 9/11 New York, it is narrated by Hans van den Broek, a Dutch-born equities analyst living the Chelsea Hotel and working in for a large bank. When his English wife, Rachel takes his young son, Jake, and returns to England, Hans fills his empty weekends with the unlikely (in America) pastime of cricket. He makes the acquaintance of the charismatic Chuck Ramkissoon, a Jamaican of Pakistani extraction who has a finger in many pies, including Kosher sushi, real estate, the establishment of an International Cricket Arena, running a betting business and perhaps something darker, all the while with a wife and a mistress. There are lots of interesting and occasionally surprising tidbits in this novel: cricket in New York; cricket in Holland; preparation of cricket pitches; and New York's non-white immigrant population. The concept of cricket as a civiliser is novel and the comment on America's seeing (or lack thereof) of the world is perceptive. There is quite a lot of description of New York which is likely to appeal to people who have lived there. But I found the main character frustrating, emotionally deficient and therefore difficult to really like or care about. Even the departure of his wife and son seems insufficient impetus to stir him from his depressive mood and make him feel strongly enough to insist on leaving with her: he settles for no more than visiting every second weekend. When he returns to England, Hans seems to get his wife back by default: " 'He's fucking someone else,' Rachel said. 'Good,' I said, 'that means I can fuck you.' 'OK, she said.'" There is certainly some lovely descriptive prose and imagery: "My family, the spine of my days, had crumbled. I was lost in invertebrate time" and "Huge trees grew nearby, and their leaves intercepted the sunlight very precisely, so that the shadows of their leaves seemed vital and creaturely as they stirred on the ground – an inkling of some supernature, to a sensibility open to such things." But does this novel live up to the descriptions on the cover: "Mesmerising", "Dazzling" and "A Brilliant Book" (Barack Obama)? This was an OK read, but nothing earth-shattering.
Read this while on vacation. Light and easy read. I enjoyed the intertwining of two very different, yet relevant stories; NYC post 9/11 and a marriage falling apart. Honest, eye-of-the-storm account of both 'tornadoes' happening in this his life.
When Chuck Ramkissoon, the Trinidadian small-time gangster and big-time cricket dreamer, takes Hans van den Broek, the "Flying Dutchman" seeking a home port that may not exist, to Green-Wood Cemetery to see the grave of Henry Chadwick, Hans comments, "My attention was given over to the small square stone in the grass -- a maverick slab of crazy paving, one might have thought -- on which Chuck had carelessly placed a foot. It was a gravestone. A word was engraved on it: DAISY." Just in case the reader of the last 200 pages hadn't cottoned to the author's intention of recreating The Great Gatsby, here lay the final clue. Was O'Neill successful in rewriting the Great American Novel in a post-9/11 form? No, but in his attempt, he has produced a work that is interesting in its own right. His handling of the transformative experience of 9/11 is both deft and subtle. His Chuck Ramkissoon is in some ways more "alive" than Fitzgerald's Jay Gatsby. The nostalgia experienced by Hans which pervades the novel is quite different in kind from that of Fitzgerald's Nick Carraway. In terms of atmosphere, I was reminded more of novels by Bernhard Schlink, Harry Mulisch, and W. G. Sebald. Some of O'Neill's language and imagery is beautiful and poignant, and the novel is well wrought. The descriptions of preparing the cricket field and those of Hans using Google Earth were well done and evocative. I must admit to a desire to take a cricket bat to Hans on more than one occasion when his self-questioning ennui became a bit too much to bear. The novel does have valuable lessons and deserves a second reading. I liked O'Neill's use of the quotation from Book II of the Georgics, seemingly as a throwaway line, ["O fortunatos nimium, sua si bona norint, agricolas.":] which is, of course, a major AUTHOR'S MESSAGE, inviting the reader to join Vergil "ignarosque viae mecum miseratus agrestis".


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Lolo was a guy. He was short had blond hair and wore black rimmed reading glasses. He was 16 years old, slightly chubby and loved the city. The hussle, the bussle of people going to and fro.
Then his parents had decided to take an impromptu "love" vacation out to a cabin in the middle of nowhere. So now whilst his parents were making passionate love (he shuddered, the thought of it making him want to vomit) in the cabin, he was stuck out here exploring the woods. His excuse had been to gather firewood, even though he had already found a large ready supply right behind the cabin. God how he hated his parents, from the girlish name, to the places they dragged him.
Walking along, he scuffed in disgust at the quiet. Suddenly he saw a squirel. Crouching down, he extended one hand in fascination and said " Hey there little buddy."
The squirrel stared at him as if he understood him, then suddenly blurted out herself in a high pitched voice, "Hey there, loser".
Lolo screamed and turned around to start running, smacking himself headfirst into a large tree.
As he started falling the world turned black around him.