Golf Balls Are Female | 
 enlarge | Author: Robert C Knox
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 2530046
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 280
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 0.6
ISBN: 0595255965
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780595255962
ASIN: 0595255965
Publication Date: December 19, 2002
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I realize that anyone sufficiently intrigued by the title so as to open the cover of Golf Balls Are Female has probably already conjured up some ideas as to its contents. To end the suspense, I will tell you that Golf Balls Are Female is simply about the three greatest pleasures in a man's life-drinking, golf, and the OU-Texas football game. Unfortunately, life requires a lot of living in between these most gratifying of pursuits, so Golf Balls Are Female is also about public humiliation, immaturity, emotional desperation, broken engagements, deceit, stupidity, sexually transmitted diseases, cybersex, lovesick lunacy, divorce, one-night stands, heartache, and partaking of the world's oldest profession. Although there are numerous incidents that stretch to the limits of plausibility, the book is based on real life stories. In fact, bona fide concerns about personal retaliation have convinced me to actually leave out some of the more incriminating details. Some readers may find our humor irreverent, others may deem our lifestyles to border on misogynistic, both would be correct. However, those that read beyond the outrageous behavior will find that Golf Balls Are Female is really about friendship. Most importantly, this book answers one of modern man's most enduring questions-golf balls are definitely female!
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 Story of my life December 19, 2007
A great deal of stories are written to teach us a lesson. Many are written to relate significant events that occurred in the life of the author, or to pass on to future generations the knowledge of those that came before. The truly great stories, however, are written to take the reader on a journey. These journeys can be tragic, or comedic, or romantic, but the best of even these are a combination of all these things that allow the reader to place themselves in the story. They allow the reader to relate to the story, to think about and react to the characters, and to consider what they would have done in the same situation.
I hope, for your sake, you can't relate to anything in Golf Balls are Female.
But I do hope that, over the course of this journey, you can begin to understand the true meaning of what Knox has written in its pages. This story is indeed one of comedy, romance and tragedy, but not of the kind that you find anywhere else. When reading this book, you're pulled along in a current of events that reveal the core of the author in an intriguingly indirect way. Unlike the great works of literature, this current isn't one of a serene, flowing river, taking you past the experiences of the author from the perspective of mere observer, but is more of a rushing torrent that occasionally plunges your head underwater and leaves you gasping for air. Time passes irretrievably, until at the very end you discover an underlying meaning that is common to us all, and with which anyone of any experience can relate: the profound and lasting impact that close friendships have on our lives.
Golf Balls are Female is not just a story about the life of one man; it is about the lives of all of us. And most importantly, it's definitely not about golf.
 yes, three great pleasures...and maybe more December 23, 2006
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It has been a while since I read this book, but much of the humor has stayed with me. I wrote about it previously (maybe for the author) and mentioned that while it is a laugh out loud tome on almost all things male, it is notably free of flatulence. Most "guy books" about drinking, whoring, and football would have some mention of the inevitable outcome of too many beers, too much bad food, and a total lack of manners.
In the end, this is something of a love story, a story about strong male bonds and friendship. I won't ruin the ending for those who plan to purchase this literary masterpiece, but suffice it to say that the book ultimately shows itself to be something of a paean to a lost friend and to days gone by.
It is, also, the book that will get Bob fired...
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