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Love and Other Recreational Sports
by
John Dearie
In Love & Other Recreational Sports, John Dearie�s debut novel, Jack Lafferty is handsome, thirty-five years old, a successful Wall Street banker�and miserable. Left at the altar after his fiancée has an affair, Jack has sworn off women. There�s no way he will be snared again, not even by Sarah Mitchell, a bright and beautiful corporate attorney. But just when Jack�s r...more
Paperback, 240 pages
Published
June 29th 2004
by Plume
(first published 2003)
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This book sucked me in at the beginning. I was reading it with ease, enjoying SOMETHING about it--when I realized. it wasn't written at a Janet Evanovich/ third grade reading comprehension level! there were big words! Three dollar words, even! wow, so cool! I was enjoying the descriptions of NYC life, and liking the characters who were introduced.
Then the honeymoon wore off, and I started to notice HOW MANY big words there were. why describe something with one adjective, if you could do it with...more
Then the honeymoon wore off, and I started to notice HOW MANY big words there were. why describe something with one adjective, if you could do it with...more
This is Sex and the City from the man's point of view. I really enjoyed this book. Not only was it a different twist on a very popular genre, but it was extremely well written and smart. Instead of a loveable airhead-bimbo protagonist, Dearie's Jack is smart and complicated, well read (Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Kerouac are quoted several times), and relatable.
I liked this book and the style of writing.
However, I felt like I wanted to know more about the relationship between Sara and Jack - I didn't think it was all that believable that after a brief couple of meetings and a date that Jack would get so bowled over with her. it seems a shame that the author couldn't have developed the early dating storyline a bit more before the ex comes along and and drops the ball. It may have been more believable that Sarah felt justified in not wanting to know him...more
However, I felt like I wanted to know more about the relationship between Sara and Jack - I didn't think it was all that believable that after a brief couple of meetings and a date that Jack would get so bowled over with her. it seems a shame that the author couldn't have developed the early dating storyline a bit more before the ex comes along and and drops the ball. It may have been more believable that Sarah felt justified in not wanting to know him...more
John Dearie has written kind of a chick lit novel if chick lit were to refer to guys and dating. Much of what he writes about is what women talk about and how women talk to each other behind closed doors, revealing that women and men are really not that different from each other at all. Well, they are, but sometimes, not as extremely as we'd think. This book is witty and entertaining as well as unpredictable.
I was looking for a quick comical read. This book was a pleasant surprise. The main character seems self-loathing and cynical throughout most of the book, but he did suffer a huge blow. Romance is not my usual reading option due to the whiny, wishy washy feelings that take place. This book had that but with some comical insight.
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For something that was touted as the male version of Sex and the City, I expected it to be more. The story was okay, and for the first third of the novel I was rather into it, but eventually I got really annoyed. The main character is fairly whiny, I didn't believe his huge declaration at the end, and I preferred the side characters. It wasn't a bad book, but I doubt I would pick it up again.
It was interesting at first, but I got a little bored with all of the squishy "looking for love" crap. I need more of a storyline than just someone pining for and/or avoiding love.
I read it in Italian and enjoyed it okay. A kind of chick lit but for guys, whatever that would be called.
I found it linear and one-dimensional in ways that disappointed me.
Very New York
I'd rather give this 2 1/2 stars. Pretty light and easy to read. Amusing at times. I don't know this genre, but enjoyable enough.
i thought it was a chick-lit...
Basically it's about men and relationship.
Very funny and entertaining..
Basically it's about men and relationship.
Very funny and entertaining..
I tried really hard with this book, but I just couldn't wait for it to be over.
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