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  • It's pretty good. It's probably not worth reading unless you have some reason to worship Bobby Orr -- being a Bruins fan or from Parry Sound or something -- if only because Brunt's writing is incredibly hard to follow in some places. It's not the Canadian spellings, though sometimes that does force ... Continue

    It's pretty good. It's probably not worth reading unless you have some reason to worship Bobby Orr -- being a Bruins fan or from Parry Sound or something -- if only because Brunt's writing is incredibly hard to follow in some places. It's not the Canadian spellings, though sometimes that does force me to go back and re-read a word. It's his timeline, or more specifically, his lack thereof. The book is by and large in chronological order, but he has this annoying tendency to skip around without telling you precisely where he's going. He jumps ahead to when Bobby gets married in 1973, then he just jumps back to 1968 and suddenly Bobby's a bachelor again. It's really frustrating at times. Another thing I found annoying was that he didn't devote sufficient time, I felt, to certain events. He talks and talks and talks about the Canada Cup, but he rushes the end of that story, which is what he also does when he talks about the '72 Summit Series, so you don't have a clear idea of what actually happened. But if you want to read about Bobby Orr, you read this book, if only because there isn't a better one out there. It's much the same with Koufax biographies, although Jane Leavy's is excellent and I think this one is middling, overall. But there are some excellent bits interspersed that earn it three out of four stars.

    

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The legend of Bobby Orr is one of the most enduring in all of sports. Even those who have never played the game of hockey know the mystique and tradition surrounding Boston's immortal defenseman. In the glory years of the Original Six, he and Gordy Howe were the Ted Williams and Joe DiMaggio of their sport with equally as rabid a following. In Searching for Bobby Orr, Canada's premier sportswriter gives us a compelling and graceful look at the life and time of Bobby Orr that is also a revealing portarit of the game and a county in transition.

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