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Fathers of Myth Review

Fathers of Myth
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Fathers of Myth ReviewMatthew Brooks is a new reporter for the Portland Herald. He is not very happy with his boss, Lloyd Hatch, an obnoxious demanding editor. However, he is very happy to have Kelly for his photographer. But if he calls her honey or sweetheart one more time, she should clobber him. He worries about his father who is widowed and lives in Florida. At times he acts a mite juvenile and he drinks too much. He doesn't seem to have any close friends except his parrot, Cashew.
Kelly, is a wonderful photographer, but doesn't seem to have had very good luck with men. She might like Matt but has no desire to find that she admires him enough to start to see him as a person and not just another man. Both she and Matt become a bit paranoid because of the things that keep happening to them. Especially when someone tries to kill Matt on top of the Space Needle in Seattle.
Matt and Kelly become caught up in a bizarre affair that starts out with an air crash and a man who runs into Matt at the site. From there the story jerks our hero and heroine from one news story to another. Each time leaving questions in their minds about the identity of a man they keep seeing in a coat and hat. Someone thinks they know something that is to be kept secret. Suddenly accidents start happening to them and they are sure these are attempts on their lives. But who would believe them. From slashed tires on their ride that leaves them stranded in the desert in Montana, to a bomb in Portland he traverses a world filled with questions and danger.
I found the plot fasinating, well developed, but the storyline felt contrived. The fact it is written in first person doesn't allow for the information and narrative that would bring a cohesiveness to the story. It felt fractured and the characters never became three-dimensional.Fathers of Myth OverviewMatthew Brooks, a young rookie journalist working for the Portland Herald, along with his beautiful photographer partner Kelly O Hara, run head on into the mystery of their lives. As they pry open this mystery, that has been purposely kept a secret for thousands of years, they discover that knowing the truth about the past, could very well cost them their lives; the disappearance of the dinosaurs and the ancient story of a global flood, to the real identity of Jack the Ripper and the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, to the kidnap of Charles Lindbergh s son and the assassin of John F Kennedy, to the Hindenburg and the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion disasters, all possess one common thread of truth. Come along with me! Unearth the hidden secret about our past. Learn the real truth behind the history of mankind, and the truth about theFathers of Myth.

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Pull Up a Chair: The Vin Scully Story Review

Pull Up a Chair: The Vin Scully Story
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Pull Up a Chair: The Vin Scully Story ReviewVince Scully the legendary Hall Of Fame announcer for the Brooklyn and now Los Angeles Dodgers... is nearing his sixtieth complete year of broadcasting. I happen to have been blessed to listen to Vinnie as a young boy in New York... and then miraculously... our family moved to Los Angeles the same exact year as the Dodgers... so I have never missed a single year of Vinnie's poetic... magical... announcing of our families beloved Dodgers from the time I was old enough to know the difference between a ball and a strike... till today... when as a Grandfather I listen to Vinnie with my grandchild. This is a book that is long over do... but unfortunately... I'm sad to say it is disappointing for a number of reasons.
Since Vinnie did not participate in the development of this book the author depends entirely on historical quotes... and on countless occasions many sentences and paragraphs include numerous quotes from multiple individuals... and many times the same section has more than one quote from the same individual... IN NO LOGICAL SEQUENCE... and the reader becomes dumbfounded as to which quotes came from which individuals. At times such as these the flow of the story comes to a standstill as the reader literally scratches his head and tries to figure out who said what.
There are also numerous typos and/or sentences that just don't make sense. Such as page forty-eight when the author writes: "IT WOULDN'T HAVE GONE THROUGH THE (BROOKLYN) FENCE." "MUSED CAMPANELLA. MIGHT HAVE GONE THROUGH IT, THOUGH." Huh?? Or on page ninety-nine "THE KID YOU'D LIKE TO SEE RINGING YOUR DOORBELL WHEN YOU DAUGHTER STARTS DATING." There are also important historical mistakes such as the stating that in 1966 Koufax won his third straight Cy Young award. That is incorrect. Koufax didn't win three straight awards... though he did win the Cy Young in 1963,1965 and 1966. The reader is also let down when the most famous baseball fight in modern history involving the San Francisco Giants and Los Angeles Dodgers when Giant Juan Marichal hit Dodger catcher Johnnie Roseboro over the head with a bat is discussed, and none of the prior game detail that culminated in this horrendous event is covered.
When the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles Vinnie and the transistor radio is what fueled the Dodgers growth in popularity as much as the team itself. Every member of the family from Grandma and Grandpa... to Mom and Dad... and the kids... all knew Vince Scully simply... and lovingly... by one word "VINNIE". He was a one name superstar way before Madonna... Britney... Magic and Michael. Vinnie was voted *THE MOST MEMORABLE PERSONALITY IN THE HISTORY OF THE LOS ANGELES DODGER FRANCHISE!* This book chronologically covers all the bases in Scully's career... but it is not an easy read due to the sloppiness mentioned earlier. What may or may not be an interesting coincidence... is that this book and the last shoddy baseball book I read... were both mysteriously delivered a couple of weeks "earlier" than the original release dates that had been posted on Amazon for months. Perhaps the publishers cut down on quality control to simply get the books out quicker than originally scheduled for some unknown marketing reasons. If so... I hope they learned their lesson.
Pull Up a Chair: The Vin Scully Story OverviewIn 1950, Vin Scully broadcast his first major league baseball game for the then-Brooklyn Dodgers. Nearly sixty years later he still invites a listener to 'pull up a chair," completing a record fifty-ninth consecutive year of play-by-play. Recruited and mentored by the legendary Red Barber, the New York-born Scully moved with the Dodgers to Los Angeles in early 1958. His instantly recognizable voice has described players from Duke Snider to Orel Hershiser to Manny Ramirez, with hundreds in between.At one time or another, Scully has aired NBC Television's Game of the Week, twelve All-Star Games, eighteen no-hitters, twenty-five World Series, and network football, golf, and tennis. He has made every sportscasting Hall of Fame; received a Lifetime Emmy Achievement award and a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame; and been voted 'most memorable [L.A. Dodgers] franchise personality." In 2000, the American Sportscasters Association named Scully the Sportscaster of the 20th Century.The first biography of Vin Scully is long overdue. Curt Smith-to USA Today, 'The voice of authority on baseball broadcasting"-is the ideal man to write it. Scully opens each broadcast by wishing listeners, 'A very pleasant good afternoon." Pull Up a Chair will provide a reader with the same.

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