Not the book I thought I was buying | The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game

Hard to follow | The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game | Michael Lewis

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	• The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game Michael Lewis W. W. Norton & Company, 2007 - 352 pages average customer review:based on 188 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Lawrence Taylor not as psycho as Lewis describes...

I love the story of Michael Oher and the Tuoy family, and I'm looking forward to the movie.

Lewis is an excellent writer and knows how to tell a good story - BUT he plays fast and loose with the facts at the beginning of the book. Go over to Youtube and watch the video of Lawrence Taylor's hit on Joe Theismann. Lewis swears that Taylor's reaction after the play has nothing to do with the gravity and grossness of Theismann's injury (he had a compound fracture, with the bone protruding through his sock!). In Lewis' account, Taylor's reaction is a result of his own claustrophobia and fear of being at the bottom of a pile. Watch the video. A) Lawrence is on top of the pile (and it's not much of a pile) and B) Lawrence is frantically waving to the Redskins' sideline trying to get their attention to the fact that Theismann needs immediate attention.

When Lewis mis-characterizes the first incident in his book this badly, he gives himself a credibility problem for everything else he as written.

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Not the book I thought I was buying

While I was browsing at a book store I did a quick flip through of this book, I only read the part about Lawrence Taylor and the history and importance of the left tackle and basically got it into my head that the rest of the book was going to be like that. I recently bought the book and was dissapointed to see that most of the book was about the real life story of Michael Oher.

The story of Michael Oher I thought was a very nice story but didn't really capture my imagination. It seemed a bit cliche even though it was true story and didn't really have anything that really touched me. I thought at the very least it was going to detail how Oher learned to be a offensive tackle (to in essence connect his story to the left tackle history) but it really didn't and was more of a human interest story.

The Tuhoys generosity is inspiring but the reason I didn't embrace the story is because I felt that Michael Oher was not really a sympathetic character (even with his sad childhood). I don't understand why this boy captured Leigh Anne's heart besides being pityable. He didn't do anything to charming or heartwarming he was just kinda at the right place at the right time. What made him so special (besides being huge) that she adopted him but not some other poor black teen? I don't get it. Also I'm a relativley shy person myself so I understand being quiet and all but I just couldn't relate to how aloof Michael Oher was. I mean if some rich white lady decides to buy me new clothes and then adopts me and put me in her will I'd be thanking her every 5 seconds but Michael doesn't show much gratitude. The thing I kept thinking is how lucky Michael Oher is that no only on top of the inheritance he will be getting he will also have his NFL earnings.

Perhaps I'm being too harsh on Michael Oher but that's just the way I feel.

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Hard to follow

Hard to figure the theme. You get into the story of Oher and then get bumped to a history of Bill Walsh and then back to Oher and then Lawrence Taylor and then Oher and then Steve Wallace? Too hard to follow.

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Great Book

Great Book, It is about time we have some more positive storys hit the mainstream. Michael Lewis blends football with the touching story of Michael Oher. I reccomend this book!

"Lewis has such a gift for storytelling...he writes as lucidly for sports fans as for those who read him for other reasons."?Janet Maslin, New York Times One day Michael Oher will be among the most highly paid athletes in the National Football League. When we first meet him, he is one of thirteen children by a mother addicted to crack; he does not know his real name, his father, his birthday, or how to read or write. He takes up football, and school, after a rich, white, evangelical family plucks him from the streets. Then two great forces alter Oher: the family's love and the evolution of professional football itself into a game in which the quarterback must be protected at any cost. Our protagonist becomes the priceless package of size, speed, and agility necessary to guard the quarterback's greatest vulnerability: his blind side. This paperback edition contains a brand-new 2007 afterword. .

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