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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/685.The_Natural?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="The Natural" border="0" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1157173474m/685.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/685.The_Natural?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">The Natural</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/447.Bernard_Malamud">Bernard Malamud</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6518780?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 5 of 5 stars<br/>Easily the best baseball novel ever writen, and quite possibly the best sports novel--but don't let that discourage the non-sports fans among you: this book also rips apart the American Folktale and reconstructs it for the modern era, plays fast and loose with any notion of heroism, and has a wonderfully sad and cynical ending (quite unlike the movie they made from the book). A great read for the hours in between playoff games. <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/252898?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>