The Outside Groove Book Club

Today we take a look at "Sunday Money", written by Sports Illustrated Reporter Jef Maynard. To properly review this book, I'll paraphrase a quote by the legendary Roger Ebert:

I hated this book. Hated hated hated hated hated this book. Hated it. Hated every simpering stupid vacant reader-insulting moment of it. Hated the sensibility that thought anyone would like it. Hated the implied insult to the reader by its belief that anyone would be entertained by it.

"Sunday Money" is, possibly, the WORST thing ever written about Nascar. Maynard (who apparently is too good for 2 f's in his first name) presents the sport in every light imaginable, always returning to a bizzare recounting of the sport's roots. Meanwhile, he's using as many Tom Wolfe-isms as humanly possible. Too bad TOM WOLFE ALREADY WROTE ABOUT NASCAR IN "THE LAST AMERICAN HERO".

Avoid this book. AVOID IT!