The Sportswriter by Richard Ford is one of The 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read, just like Independence Day, by the same author, is included on that list, notwithstanding that, it is only 1637th on the Greatest Books of All Time – it seemed to be one of my own Top 200 or so, but now I am not sure, who knows what I will say about it, by the end of this note – you have thousands of reviews of magnum opera from the aforementioned and other web pages on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html

 

The Sportswriter by Richard Ford is one of The 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read, just like Independence Day, by the same author, is included on that list, notwithstanding that, it is only 1637th on the Greatest Books of All Time – it seemed to be one of my own Top 200 or so, but now I am not sure, who knows what I will say about it, by the end of this note – you have thousands of reviews of magnum opera from the aforementioned and other web pages on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html

 

7 out of 10

 

I have written about The Sportswriter https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-sportswriter-by-richard-ford.html ‘When I first started to read The Sportswriter I was turned off by the gloomy, tragic atmosphere of the novel…’ then I thought it is wonderful, when trying it for the first time, and now I am back in between

 

This novel should be set aside, it may be a barometer, I have been somewhat depressed, so maybe there is that, I should see some specialist – not twenty-two, I understand that the Orange Gorilla who is demolishing The White House has been seen recently by twenty-two specialists, he keeps boasting about his IQ

Whereas they give him these cognitive tests, just like they do after some Knockout in the boxing ring, to see if he can take care of himself, and then they allow him to rule over a country – the once admired greatest democracy, now a lamentable failure in quite a few ways, due to this MAGA section they have there

 

H.L. Mencken https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-american-credo-by-h-l-mencken-and.html was a fabulous luminary, he said ‘Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard’ among other things, one referring to historians as ‘failed novelists’

‘Frank ids divorced and what I missed out on the first superficial approach is that he is still upbeat and says that- If I would have the possibility to change, I would only have Ralph live and avoid the divorce’ however, we learn from positive psychology that, if divorce is not optimal, neither is a marriage on the rocks…

 

Indeed, there was this statement that in a way we should cheer on the friend who says he has had a divorce, because that means that the ordeal is about over https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-myths-of-happiness-by-sonja.html we have this strange situation:

The happiest people are married, they live longer, more successful lives, then you have the divorced, who live less, but then even worse are those who are married, but their marriages are dysfunctional, it is as if ‘they were in a car crash every single day’, ergo, divorce represents the end of that heinous state of affairs

 

I am married, it does not work, we stay together only for practical, material reasons, and I guess to share the care for the macaws, reading The Seven Principles of Making Marriage Work https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-seven-principles-of-making-marriage.html would be a waste of time here

 

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