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This audiobook anthology at Audible has a sample Ellison reading Jeffty is Five.
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The question that's yet to be answered is when does this get funny?
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What did you think of the book other than it not being funny.
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Glad you are enjoying Dent.. Go Yankees. One more over Houston, then on to the Dodgers... |
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I also remember listening to The Country Girls narrated by the author Edna O'Brien. It was back when I was still newer to audiobooks so I didn't think about it as much, but from what I remember the narration was only okay. Her voice was a bit weak and wavery. I also just recently finished Year of Wonders read by the author Geraldine Brooks, and oddly have the exact same vocal criticism of her reading as O'Brien's, but Brooks' narration is excoriated in the Audible ratings so I was willing to be empathetic to it since I didn't think it that bad. |
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example Team a 63 25 Team B 62 25 Team B is 1/2 GB, Team B only needs to win one to tie while team A doesn't need to lose. If it were Team A 63 25 Team B 62 26 Team B is one GB, meaning team a loses one while team b wins one. Call it a statistician quirk. I guess think of one game back as being one pair of games, one lost (the team in front) and one won (the team behind). Last edited by drofgnal; 10-20-2017 at 11:19 AM. |
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I'm seeing different numbers, Boston as having won 43 and lost 19 and the Yankees as having won 36 and lost 24. In my baseball universe, that amounts to 6 games back. The Sox have won 7 more and lost 5 fewer; (7 + 5)/2 = 6.
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Even given Marty's mystic connection to the Red Sox, I still find it a little odd that characters in early 50s Brooklyn would be so into the Yankees/Red Sox rivalry. What about the Dodgers/Giants? Marty and Ted must have felt pretty isolated.
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