Andrew K. (kuligowskiandrewt) -
Marty Smith managed to alter his sports reporting career, from concentrating on NASCAR to zeroing in on College Football. In âNever Settle: Sports, Family, and the American Soulâ, Marty Smith also turned the concept of a âmemoirâ on its ear. Both were done effectively, and while they may not have been seamless transitions, as a good reporter, he certainly made it seem like it was. In both cases.
âNever Settleâ is definitely NOT the memoir you're familiar with. Rather, he wrote essays 24 essays about important aspects of his life, and important people in his life â with a dozen âinterludesâ and poems intermixed. Some of the people, like Urban Meyer and Nick Saban, will be familiar to many people. Others, very few folks have ever heard of before the publication of this book. ALL of them are important to Mr. Smith. All of them will be important to the reader by the time you have read the corresponding parts of his book, as well. It's the job he set out to do, and Marty Smith does not like to fail.
I'm not into NASCAR. I'm not into college football either. BUT I loved this book. It is about people, and it is about life. And it is a fantastic investment of a reader's time.
âNever Settleâ is definitely NOT the memoir you're familiar with. Rather, he wrote essays 24 essays about important aspects of his life, and important people in his life â with a dozen âinterludesâ and poems intermixed. Some of the people, like Urban Meyer and Nick Saban, will be familiar to many people. Others, very few folks have ever heard of before the publication of this book. ALL of them are important to Mr. Smith. All of them will be important to the reader by the time you have read the corresponding parts of his book, as well. It's the job he set out to do, and Marty Smith does not like to fail.
I'm not into NASCAR. I'm not into college football either. BUT I loved this book. It is about people, and it is about life. And it is a fantastic investment of a reader's time.
