IT'S HERE!!!! (BLL)
September 1st, 2015 at 3:44 PM ^
Wondering if I will finish it by game time.
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.
September 1st, 2015 at 5:11 PM ^
I got the same message. Book hasn't arrived yet. You're on the clock, Amazon...
September 1st, 2015 at 5:39 PM ^
Pre-ordered my kindle version at 10 pm last night, I was struggling to sleep at midnight so I decided to check if the pre-order went through because it was technically September 1st.
To my delight it was there on my kindle however this morning sucked as I stayed up until 4 reading it.
September 1st, 2015 at 8:46 PM ^
Well, Amazon was full of it, because It did not come today. This sucks - I wasted my time pre-ordering it when I could have just bought it at a store.
September 1st, 2015 at 3:44 PM ^
I'm on chapter 12
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September 1st, 2015 at 3:45 PM ^
Thought you said holding your hot lil tits at first.. I'm horny for College football
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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.
September 1st, 2015 at 3:52 PM ^
Brandon got fired. Had no idea that was coming. #wowfactor
September 1st, 2015 at 5:02 PM ^
Please don't tell me what happens with Hoke . . . won't have time to read it until tomorrow.
September 1st, 2015 at 6:07 PM ^
I gotta make sure to finish it tonight so I don't get spoiled at the free beer thing.
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).
September 1st, 2015 at 3:53 PM ^
story . . . let's hear the separate one.
September 1st, 2015 at 3:51 PM ^
My productivity will be shot for the next few days. But with the opener just a few days away I wouldn't have been too productive anyway.
September 1st, 2015 at 3:52 PM ^
Mgobookclub.
September 1st, 2015 at 3:54 PM ^
Starting chapter 4 now. I haven't been disappointed at all yet. Some of the history I wasn't aware of.
September 1st, 2015 at 3:55 PM ^
Waiting for the mailman to get here on the west coast. Then not putting it down until Thursday.
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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.
September 1st, 2015 at 4:01 PM ^
Just got back from Barne's & Noble. I had to ask where it was and when I saw it I was like DAMN. It's huge!
September 1st, 2015 at 7:28 PM ^
+1 Relevant
The "Ever After" plaque at Brandon Barton Hills home
September 1st, 2015 at 9:24 PM ^
Meh, I don't go there often.
September 2nd, 2015 at 6:57 AM ^
Sorry if I got a bit aggressive on the apostrophe bit. I just can't resist when apostrophes start creeping into the middle of a proper noun that ends in an s, like Barnes.
Or James, as in Jame's Joseph Harbaugh.
September 1st, 2015 at 4:03 PM ^
Waiting to get home to read. And it will be read.
September 1st, 2015 at 4:10 PM ^
Kindle is a wonderful app. Sitting on my deck pouring through it right now. Had to take an MGoBlog break to search some historical posts.
September 1st, 2015 at 4:14 PM ^
Jut started part II: DB era (error)
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.
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."
September 1st, 2015 at 4:42 PM ^
The word "faculty" has been botched multiple times in different ways and "lacrosse" was spelled "laccrosse".
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.
September 1st, 2015 at 5:34 PM ^
Right--it's amazing how quickly he churned through this. And it's definitely quite possible a lot of these errors were made in the typesetting stage, too.
September 1st, 2015 at 7:21 PM ^
I'll add that it's also really strange that the photo caption about the UTL uniformz has a picture of the MSU game bumblebees. Also, he says we wore uniformz in UTL II, which we didn't.
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.
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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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.
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.
September 1st, 2015 at 5:17 PM ^
Don't tell us how it ends!
/s
September 1st, 2015 at 4:22 PM ^
I got it yesterday at B&N in GR. i'm about half way through. Very interesting.
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September 1st, 2015 at 4:28 PM ^
Picked mine up today at B&N in OKC. Was happy to see they had a couple In store. Can't wait to dig in.
September 1st, 2015 at 4:33 PM ^
At 11am this morning. I'm working at the FD today so can't get my hands on it until tomorrow...
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..
September 1st, 2015 at 4:52 PM ^
Are you going to get the pages where you are mentioned framed?
September 1st, 2015 at 8:28 PM ^
Page 395 for anyone interested.
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September 1st, 2015 at 4:41 PM ^
until next week. Bummer. Long weekend provided solid reading time...except when I'm not overdosing on college football on TV.
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
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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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?
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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September 1st, 2015 at 4:52 PM ^
But if MSC doesn't randomly name the unqualified Brandon as an AD candidate (i.e appointing him), none of this shit happens.