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  • The Blind Side

  • Evolution of a Game
  • By: Michael Lewis
  • Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
  • Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (146 ratings)
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The Blind Side

By: Michael Lewis
Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
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Summary

In football, as in life, the value we place on people changes with the rules of the games they play. 

When we first meet the young man at the center of this extraordinary and moving story, he is one of 13 children by a mother addicted to crack; he does not know his real name, his father, his birthday, or any of the things a child might learn in school. And he has no serious experience playing organized football. 

What changes? He takes up football, and school, after a rich, Evangelical, Republican family plucks him from the mean streets. 

Their love is the first great force that alters the world’s perception of the boy, whom they adopt. The second force is the evolution of professional football itself. 

In The Blind Side, Lewis shows us a largely unanalyzed but inexorable trend in football working its way down from the pros to the high school game, where it collides with the life of a single young man to produce a narrative of great and surprising power. 

©2006 Michael Lewis (P)2006 Books on Tape

Critic reviews

"As he did so memorably for baseball in Moneyball, Lewis takes a statistical X-ray of the hidden substructure of football, outlining the invisible doings of unsung players that determine the outcome more than the showy exploits of point scorers....Lewis probes the fascinating question of whether football is a matter of brute force or subtle intellect." ( Publishers Weekly)

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Even better than the film.

I came to this knowing nothing about American football, so the in depth and very detailed talk about players and techniques on the football field initially seemed a turn-off. But the narrator has a great voice and sounds patient as he explains it and before you knew I feel confident talking about AF and I got so much more out of the central Michael Orr story from knowing the background. It's a brilliant book, brilliantly read and I strongly recommend it!

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Brilliant even if you haven't a clue about the NFL

Downloaded this audio book after watching the film (again!) and not disappointed. I'm not a TV sports fan, religious or any kind of god botherer and haven't a clue about American Football. Stick with the football and then just smile and enjoy.

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Slow start

What disappointed you about The Blind Side?

The non NFL reader will find the first two chapters labourious

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Better when it got going.

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Impenetrable for those who know nothing about NFL

We really tried with this book and gave it a fair go having very much enjoyed others by Michael Lewis. But the level of details, descriptions of game play and tactics regarding American football makes it rather dull for those who know nothing about the game, i.e. most people outside the US. The sections about Michael Oher are interesting and meant we kept listening, but we did give up in the end.

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