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Title: Self indulgent rambling
Review: I ended up with several of Richard Ford's books after a book swapping event. I tried to read "A Piece of My Heart" but couldn't keep interested. Then, since "Independence Day" won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, I thought I should at least try once more and read "The Sportswriter" (thinking I would read "Independence Day" afterward.While reading "The Sportswriter", I found myself skipping large chunks of prose amounting to lists of disparate things, trying to find the meat of the story: what happens to Frank Bascombe and the people around him. I read to the end and felt I had mostly wasted my time. Unsatisfyiing and overly verbose, I'm going to move on to try other new (to me) writers.Glad I didn't spend any money on this.
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