Anyone reading The Art Of Fielding?

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I started it yesterday and am hooked.
It's a bit like John Irving.

I've bought it and I'm keeping it for my holidays. Wasn't hugely looking forward to it until you said it was like John Irving. Can't wait now!

It has a story line not dissimilar to Prayer for Owen Meany, but it is really developing now. Just get through the first 20 pages of baseball.

That's one of my favourite books. It was the baseball stuff that was putting me off TBH.

I read it a couple of weeks ago and really enjoyed it. I haven't read any John Irving though so can't compare it to that but similar to a lot of modern American writing I thought.

I love baseball so especially looking forward to reading this. It's on my ever growing to read list.

I enjoyed it but did a lot of skipping of baseball detail!

I thought it was wonderful. But do agree with PP; yes, it is a bit heavy on the baseball info, but this improves as the book progresses...

Just finished it.
Fantastic.
Now, what next?????

Really enjoyed this book, even though baseball puts me to sleep without fail.

I've come back to this thread, because I read it on holiday. I thought it was just OK, but I read it immediately after Freedom by Jonathan Franzen, which was outstanding. I think I was mentally comparing the story and the writing.

I thought there was too much baseball description - towards the end, at the "big" match, I didn't know if the things that were happening in field were good or bad, IYSWIM.

I also thought the ending was predictable.