Also, I didn't enjoy the narrator and continuously longed to here Kevin Costner's voice. This alone makes the book worth the time. Again, the movie really is so much better, but there is a sweet little gem in the book that is a departure from the film that I became enchanted with and have learned additional information separately about 'JDS' and his WWII Veteran status. However I always like the original and seeing where Hollywood departs from the writer. Yes you get that from the movie, and yes it's much better in film. It is so tempting to think of Shoeless Joe Jackson as the character in the book and movie, to think of him as a naive and extraordinarily gifted ballplayer, to think of him as author Bill. The only reason I gave this book 4 stars was because the story is amazing. It wasn't with hesitation that I picked this book up, but is so with my recommendation for it. Robinson had originally envisioned Shoeless Joe Jackson as being played by an actor in his 40s, someone who would be older than Costner and who could thereby act as a father surrogate. This one really touches on that '1, 2 combination punch' described above, but not too fantastical. He wrote with James Earl Jones in mind because he thought it would be fun to see Ray trying to kidnap such a big man. Kinsella which also inspired Kevin Costner´s exceedingly popular film, Field of Dreams. Thus begins Shoeless Joe, the award-winning novel by W.P.

Field of Dreams has always been a favorite movie of mine and didn't know that it was based on a book until I re-watched the movie recently and saw that it was based on a book of a different title. Digging up his corn to build a ballpark will inspire the return of baseball legend Shoeless Joe Jackson, a man whose reputation was forever tarnished by the scandalous 1919 World Series. My two favorite genres of books and movies are Sci-fi and Baseball, albeit not together but that might be interesting as well. He has also received awards from the CBS/Foundation for the Dramatist Guild, the National Endowment for the. Don't let this book ruin the movie for you Granville Wyche Burgess is the author of the acclaimed Rebecca Zook series of novels.

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