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I always enjoyed a good sports novel. Especially one that tries to take a hard hitting, honest look at the “game” and the player. Years ago, I turned away from the typical hero worship yarn which still tends to dominate the genre. Most of those works follow a tried and true pattern; a hero who is inately good overcomes evil even though the odds are stacked against him.

If you watched the movie taken from this book, it is obvious the screen writers use the main character, Roy Hobbs in the same manner. And even though the movie puts the hero goes through some “adult” problems, he is able to overcome due to his superior character and his great abilities. It all sounds so natural.....Well, I believe I am obligated to warn you.....this book does not follow that formulae.

I was somewhat familiar with this novel having read several reviews which referred to it as a relatively unknown classic. I was warned about the gritty feel the author imparts. That it was a dark read. Being as it may, I thought I knew what to expect, that I was prepared. After all, I feel I am well read. None the less, I can easily say that by the end, I was impressed and more so..... stunned.

To be sure, its definitely a good baseball book, but it’s far more then a sports book. The writer quickly thrust he reader into a world seem-idly devoid of love and mercy. I found myself (along with Roy Hobbs) being pulled into the darkness. Forced to examine the depths of my own desires. What drives me the reader to succeed? How far will I go to succeed? How does one measure success? More so, the writer forces the reader to see how we easily deceive ourselves. “The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately evil. Who can know it?”

If you think there are bad and guys guys in life and that they are easy to spot, think again. The writer forces the reader to think, what I might do given similar circumstances that engulf the main character, Roy Hobbs. He never lets up. The reader never gets a break.

It’s an easy book to read, well crafted, and fast moving. But it is hard to take. And the reader needs to remember the time in America in which the book was written; a timewhen people still believed in the hero.

It was a fascinating book. If you read it, get ready to be stunned.


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The Natural Bernard Malamud Kevin Baker 9780374502003 Books Reviews

I've loved the movie for many years and finally got around to reading the book. Certainly the book proves darker than the movie and shows the movie, beloved as it is, to be as "hollywoodized" as the best of them. Hobbs' character in the movie, portrayed by Robert Redford as so calm, poised, stoic, and generally kind is a lot different in the book - wild, emotional, reactive, and not particularly nice. Whereas in the movie, Hobbs' moral fortitude is unbreakable, in the book he wavers before eventually remaining true to his ideals.

On a side note, I'm not sure if Malamud was going for humor when he describes the massive amounts of food Hobbs consumes on some evenings in the book, particularly at the ill fated party toward the book's end, but I found his diet absurd.
My husband loves this book. Good read for baseball lovers.
The story of Roy Hobbes in baseball. Sometimes hard to follow, but I stumbled through to the abrupt end!
The story is well written. The playful innocence of the sport and its hero (ignorant, but loveable, despite his failures in character) will be interupted by corruptness and reality of the world. The story is a little full of prejudices and cliches (good versus evil, teamspirit versus egotrip, great looking and therefore evil women and versus natural, but nice women ,etc). I especially liked the descriptions of the fans. The simpel truth is that die-hard fans usually act a little weird. All in all, I enjoyed reading the book.
This needed another editing. The main characters of Tom and Liam are pretty well fleshed out but the secondary characters were just annoying side stories. I never understood why we had to follow so much of Leah's life, dull boring footballer wife.
Movie is much better. Never heard so much stupid stuff in all my life.
Good writer, lousy story teller. Sucked
Having seen and loved the movie so many times, I’m amazed I hadn’t read Malamud’s book until now. The Roy Hobbs of the film is a very different character than the one whose tale is told so vividly in the book. And Malamud’s written Hobbs is a much more complicated protagonist — a man of mythical abilities on the ballfield, but all too human failings to which we can all relate probably all too well. If you want the happy ending, watch the great film. If you want to know the true Roy Hobbs, read this book.
I always enjoyed a good sports novel. Especially one that tries to take a hard hitting, honest look at the “game” and the player. Years ago, I turned away from the typical hero worship yarn which still tends to dominate the genre. Most of those works follow a tried and true pattern; a hero who is inately good overcomes evil even though the odds are stacked against him.

If you watched the movie taken from this book, it is obvious the screen writers use the main character, Roy Hobbs in the same manner. And even though the movie puts the hero goes through some “adult” problems, he is able to overcome due to his superior character and his great abilities. It all sounds so natural.....Well, I believe I am obligated to warn you.....this book does not follow that formulae.

I was somewhat familiar with this novel having read several reviews which referred to it as a relatively unknown classic. I was warned about the gritty feel the author imparts. That it was a dark read. Being as it may, I thought I knew what to expect, that I was prepared. After all, I feel I am well read. None the less, I can easily say that by the end, I was impressed and more so..... stunned.

To be sure, its definitely a good baseball book, but it’s far more then a sports book. The writer quickly thrust he reader into a world seem-idly devoid of love and mercy. I found myself (along with Roy Hobbs) being pulled into the darkness. Forced to examine the depths of my own desires. What drives me the reader to succeed? How far will I go to succeed? How does one measure success? More so, the writer forces the reader to see how we easily deceive ourselves. “The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately evil. Who can know it?”

If you think there are bad and guys guys in life and that they are easy to spot, think again. The writer forces the reader to think, what I might do given similar circumstances that engulf the main character, Roy Hobbs. He never lets up. The reader never gets a break.

It’s an easy book to read, well crafted, and fast moving. But it is hard to take. And the reader needs to remember the time in America in which the book was written; a timewhen people still believed in the hero.

It was a fascinating book. If you read it, get ready to be stunned.