Once a Runner and Ray Allen

Once a runner is garbage

Never understood why people get all wet over it

Labentraub wrote:

Once a runner is garbage

Never understood why people get all wet over it

That is probably because it doesn't have pictures. You should try reading it again in a few years.

You must not watch basketball. During the series when the Cavs played the Celtics, they had to have mentioned Ray Allen's mother running the marathon about 20 times. Every time Allen hit a 3, they would pan to his mother clapping.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftbm8EZZDqI

thejeff wrote:

Labentraub wrote:

Once a runner is garbage

Never understood why people get all wet over it

That is probably because it doesn't have pictures. You should try reading it again in a few years.

Thanks I will do that right after i get from under your moms bed

Labentraub wrote:

Once a runner is garbage

Never understood why people get all wet over it

You have to approach it like a classic bad B movie. Yes the writing sucks and the plot is garbage etc. but you don't read that book looking for art. Like a classic B movie part of its charm is how truly terrible it is. If someone tries to tell you the writing is excellent they are an idiot and they clearly read at a very low level. Don't worry about idiots like that. You read it for the love of running not the love of literature.

Labentraub wrote:

Once a runner is garbage

Never understood why people get all wet over it

There are an awful lot of best sellers that are worse writing. Once a runner is on par with something like a Steven King novel.

But it isn't about great writing. He captured a feeling of what it means to be an obsessed runner better than anybody else has. Someday an actual work of literature may accomplish that. Until then, it's the best running novel we have. No need to knock it for being mediocre writing when nobody claimed otherwise.

You're the kind of person who complains that everybody goes to see star wars. It's pulp, accept that people enjoy it.

Lame ass momma jokes.

Lebensborn wrote:

thejeff wrote:

That is probably because it doesn't have pictures. You should try reading it again in a few years.

Thanks I will do that right after i get from under your moms bed

Sf local wrote:

Labentraub wrote:

Once a runner is garbage

Never understood why people get all wet over it

There are an awful lot of best sellers that are worse writing. Once a runner is on par with something like a Steven King novel.

But it isn't about great writing. He captured a feeling of what it means to be an obsessed runner better than anybody else has. Someday an actual work of literature may accomplish that. Until then, it's the best running novel we have. No need to knock it for being mediocre writing when nobody claimed otherwise.

You're the kind of person who complains that everybody goes to see star wars. It's pulp, accept that people enjoy it.

+1

Labentraub wrote:

Once a runner is garbage

Never understood why people get all wet over it

If you don't understand the book, then probably never were a runner

It's not art wrote:

If someone tries to tell you the writing is excellent they are an idiot and they clearly read at a very low level.

Look, as the dromaddicted author of 20 books and several best sellers (admittedly often dubbed by sedentary sages as an idiot), I recall "Once a Runner" as a high point of my long and dense reading life of thousands of books and many hundreds of novels. All the runners in my family adore it. It's a superbly crafted narrative that beautifully evokes the feelings and spirit of running. It reads like a cross country race and climaxes with a finishing kick. The book has deservedly become a classic.

Lebensborn wrote:

thejeff wrote:

That is probably because it doesn't have pictures. You should try reading it again in a few years.

Thanks I will do that right after i get from under your moms bed

Why in the hell you you be under ANYONE's bed? How are you gonna hook up with her from there? You are doing it wrong.