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FREE THE SWEET SCIENCE PDF A. J Liebling | 288 pages | 29 Sep 2004 | Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc | 9780374272272 | English | New York, United States Boxing News, Articles, Videos, Boxeo, Results | The Sweet Science Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Preview — The Sweet Science by A. The Sweet Science by A. Liebling. Robert Anasi Foreword by. Liebling's classic New Yorker pieces on the "sweet science of bruising" bring vividly to life the boxing The Sweet Science as it once was. It depicts the great events of boxing's American heyday: Sugar Ray Robinson's dramatic comeback, Rocky Marciano's rise to prominence, Joe Louis's unfortunate decline. Liebling never fails to find the human story behind the fight, and he evokes A. Liebling never fails to find the human story behind the fight, and he evokes the atmosphere in the arena as distinctly as he does the goings-on in the ring--a combination that prompted Sports Illustrated to name The Sweet Science the best American sports book of all time. Get A Copy. Paperbackpages. More Details Original Title. Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about The Sweet Scienceplease sign up. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of The Sweet Science. Sep 12, Greg rated it really liked it Shelves: face-to-fist-sports. The Sweet Science ranks number one on the Sports Illustrated best books of all time list. The book collects some of A. Liebling's boxing essays from The New Yorker. Liebling writes in a dry and sarcastic style, and even without knowing or caring much about boxing in the pre-Cassius Clay era of the 20th century I The Sweet Science still find the book enjoyable. It's kind of like David Foster Wallace's tennis essays. I don't care about tennis, but the writing brings and enjoyment to a topic that I would no The Sweet Science ranks number one on the Sports Illustrated best books of all time list. I don't care about tennis, but the writing brings and enjoyment to a topic that I would normally pay little or no attention to. This book was going to be the inaugural title in a sports themed series of books I had planned. I was going to peruse the SI list of books and for each sport represented in the list choose one book and read it. That way I'd The Sweet Science some authors and subjects The Sweet Science normally wouldn't be exposed to, and I'd feel like more of a man and know something about sports. Instead I guess I wound up feeling emasculated when I couldn't find the basketball book I wanted to read in the library database and then had my baseball and football book requests erased because the books didn't actually exist in the stacks. It didn't take much to be discouraged. I gave up. But I still read this book which is about guys hitting other guys in the face. Sometimes till they fall down and don't get back up for a bit. Liebling wrote these essays when the sport was going The Sweet Science a dark time. In the early to mid 's TV was interested in boxing and fights were being shown for free on the networks. Fight fans no longer had to go outside to enjoy a fight, they could watch high The Sweet Science action in the comfort of their own The Sweet Science, and not have to pay for a ticket. This was great for people who didn't want to pay for a ticket, but for the fighters and the The Sweet Science this was apparently awful. Before TV there The Sweet Science a thriving fighting culture, local sports clubs and small time venues gave fighters a place to hone their skills. Fighters learned through experience, and could eke out The Sweet Science living from The Sweet Science the money they earned fighting in the small fights. Over time they got better. With TV the lower The Sweet Science of The Sweet Science fighting food-chain disappeared. New and exciting fighters were needed to keep things fresh, but without places to fight and the time it took to learn the 'sweet science' of connecting fist to face the quality of the new fighters was lacking. Poorer fighters meant poorer fights. Poorer fights sucked to watch and the whole sport The Sweet Science to fester. Liebling doesn't care for this state of affairs, The Sweet Science he sounds like the doomsayers of books versus digital reading machines. These essays are fun to read. He jabs and mocks with his words but there is a genuine love that The Sweet Science has for the subject, and the reader can tell that he has some experience first hand in having someone put their fist in your face sadly, something I don't know really anything about and which makes me wonder how erudite say Joyce Carol Oates paeans to fighting can really be why would this subject be any different that someone needs to have first hand knowledge to really write about something? This is fine good writing, and can be of interest to anyone who appreciates The Sweet Science art of putting words after other words to make effective prose. View all 9 comments. Oct 16, Caroline rated it liked it. I never really thought I would read a book about boxing. It's not a subject I'm very interested in or know The Sweet Science about. But when I found out that Sports Illustrated named this book as the best American sports book of all time, I The Sweet Science I had to give it a read. I'm glad I did. The Sweet Science is a collectio I never really thought I The Sweet Science read a book about boxing. The Sweet Science is a collection of essays about boxing that A. Liebling wrote for the New York in the early to mid s. They cover some of the most famous boxers and The Sweet Science of the day, including Joe Louis, Rocky Marciano, and Archie Moore. I loved Liebling's voice and prose in these essays. Anyone who can The Sweet Science both Dicken's Mr. Pickwick, The Sweet Science tragic heroes, and Euclidean geometry while writing The Sweet Science boxing is okay in my book. Reading his accounts of the fights made me feel like I was accompanying him there while he provided insightful commentary about tactics, society, and where the particular match belonged in boxing history which, as a side note, I didn't realize went as far back as it does - Liebling would often refer to famous matches from the s! This book also did something I wouldn't have thought possible - it made me want to watch a boxing match. Liebling gave me an appreciation of the tactics and intelligence that is required of a good boxer. Prior to this book, I thought of boxing as purely about one guy being able to hit the other guy harder, but now I know that that is but one part of a larger game. Very cool. Aug 03, Peter Derk rated it it was ok Shelves: reviewed. You can't go too far into books about fighting without running into this one over and over. Like a lot of older books, you can feel the vintage on this one. For The Sweet Science, it's about three things: Descriptions of people, descriptions of places, and a careful catalouging of what everybody is eating. The first serves The Sweet Science book well. Getting a description of the different boxers is helpful, especially because it seems like most descriptions of the time are strongly influenced by whether or not the writer is You can't go too far into books about fighting without running into this one over and over. Getting a description of the different boxers is helpful, especially because it seems like most descriptions of the time are strongly influenced by whether or not the writer is a fan of an individual. The second is alright, but every bout the guy attended was prefaced by a description of the crowd and the venue. There was some pretty good material about people seat-hopping and the way they would try to pretend like they had no idea what they'd done, but ultimately it got to be just another part of another chapter. The third, I The Sweet Science care less. Eat an egg hard boiled or soft. Just eat the damn egg already. Probably the most interesting part of this book, to me, was that Liebling made a pretty good case for television ruining boxing. It would go against logic in a lot of ways. You'd think the increased chance for exposure would be huge. The Sweet Science by A. J. Liebling, Paperback | Barnes & Noble® As we near the end of a lengthy series, a reminder of our criteria. These are The Sweet Science lists, placing under Boxing is back! Okay, boxing had technically been back for a few months now. There were Ritson12 KOs was lining Avila Perspective, Chap.

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