IT'S HERE!!!! (BLL)

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I am holding in my hot little mitts my very own copy of Brandon's Lasting Lessons!! I'm so excited and I just can't hide it!! Who else has their copy? Let's talk about the book, open thread style as we read. The cover is beautiful. The maize is the perfect shade, IMO, though some will likely find it a bit too on the highlighter end of the spectrum. I will add a few pics once I figure out how.

reshp1

September 1st, 2015 at 4:47 PM ^

I ended up downloading the eBook since no book stores near my work had it. Starting to read it during lunch was a major mistake as it's been nearly impossible to stop reading it and get any work done. I suspect at this rate I will actually finish it by game time, which is pretty incredible since I'm not exactly a fast reader usually. 

Jon06

September 1st, 2015 at 3:49 PM ^

This was apparently the kick in the butt I needed to find out that Amazon can in fact ship to me abroad. Hooray. Now nobody post any spoilers for the next 2 weeks, please.

LSAClassOf2000

September 1st, 2015 at 3:50 PM ^

According to my wife, UPS kindly delivered my copy (along with several packages of canned cat food - separate story, of course) at about 11:30 AM this morning, so now I struggle with doing prep for a podcast, exercising or reading "Endzone". Maybe I'll take "Endzone" with me on my run (which might be more of a brisk walk in this heat, and short at that). 

ken725

September 1st, 2015 at 4:00 PM ^

It was downloaded and waiting for me this morning, but I haven't gotten around to fully reading it yet. Just read several pages of the preface during my poo break.

kb

September 1st, 2015 at 4:14 PM ^

isn't going to arrive until next week. Not like I would be able to concentrate long enough to read it between now and the game.

Bando Calrissian

September 1st, 2015 at 4:17 PM ^

I'm blowing through this thing right quick. Got it on Saturday, already through 2013.

I love it. The Hagerup material is especially and surprisingly poignant.

The only small quibble I have is with the person who did the final copyediting... It's littered with mistakes. Pretty sure at some point in the first few chapters someone did a "Replace All" with "Michingan Man."

reshp1

September 1st, 2015 at 4:50 PM ^

Bacon has said the book was under an extremely tight time crunch, the worst he's ever worked under in his entire career, so I'll cut him a break. But yeah, it's pretty noticeable and distracting. It's kind of funny because there's a section where he uses not making typos as an example of the higher standard Michigan folks hold themselves to. 

Needs

September 1st, 2015 at 8:34 PM ^

He also writes that winning the 2012 OSU game (the 26-21 game) would have landed us a share of the divisional title, which is true as we would have tied Nebraska at 7-1, and a spot in the Big Ten championship game, which is false because Nebraska had clinched a spot the day before by beating Iowa.

FWIW, I think this is a minor, minor quibble in what is a highly entertaining and eye opening book.

Kilgore Trout

September 1st, 2015 at 7:18 PM ^

The errors in Bacon's books are really distracting and in my opinion really hurt his credibility. Three and Out had big factual errors and he has the 2006 stadium capacity wrong on the second page of the preface. I'm intrigued to know the backstory of all this, but it's hard to have much faith in its accuracy.




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Boner Stabone

September 1st, 2015 at 9:07 PM ^

There have been mistakes in all of Bacon's books.  In Bo's lasting lessons he said that Harbaugh's bomb to Kolesar against OSU clinched the Big ten title and sent UM to Pasadena, when really that did not win the Big ten title, because Iowa went to the Rose bowl that year and UM went the following year when they won at the horseshoe in 1986.

With that being said, his books are still very interesting and i have a hard time putting them down.  Cant wait to read this next one.

M Fanfare

September 1st, 2015 at 4:18 PM ^

Barnes and Noble on Washtenaw had it on Friday so I picked it up then, finished it Sunday morning. It's quite good. Even better than Three and Out and with a better ending.

Wolverine Devotee

September 1st, 2015 at 4:43 PM ^

I'm at chapter 35, Full Steam Ahead.

I bought it on Google Play last night when it was released at midnight and stayed up til about 3am reading it. Have been reading since I woke up this morning at about 9.

For Bacon books I usually just get the eBook save Bo's Lasting Lessons, but I'll definitely be getting a physical copy of this one.

You'll find out why.. 

TdK71

September 1st, 2015 at 4:43 PM ^

Delivered: Your Amazon package with Endzone: The Rise, Fall, and Return of Michigan Football was delivered. More info at amzn.com/orders 3:29PM 9/01

SAMgO

September 1st, 2015 at 4:45 PM ^

Got it yesterday from literati and am through like 25 chapters. Can't believe how the end of the Notre Dame series went down. Brutal. They were certainly not the chicken littles, Brandon was.




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Wolverine Devotee

September 1st, 2015 at 4:51 PM ^

What stunned me the most was Hoke "not being sold on Denard being the starting QB" when he first came to Michigan in January 2011, and he was actually more in favor of TATE FORCIER.

But Denard was the 2010 B1G MVP? 

Doc Brown

September 1st, 2015 at 4:49 PM ^

I'm about 25% through. Man, Dave wouldn't have been able to wreck as much havoc if Bollinger didn't reduce the power of the faculty committee to an advisory board.




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