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I am really pissed off, because I spent a long time writing a whole long review of this book but then this fucking website just spontaneously erased it.But whatever. It wasnt a great review by any means. Ill just write another, similarly mediocre one.Being as Im a lady boxing enthusiast who likes to read books, for years Ive been vaguely embarrassed about not having ever got around to this. Now I finally have, and Im not sure how to rate it -- there was stuff I really liked in here, but by the end the essays had become so redundant and uninteresting that I felt my patience and good graces had been tried. Also, while I really enjoyed the On Boxing essay (and the Tyson piece, though in some senses it hasnt aged well and has become much more a historical artifact than an essay in its own right... not that theres anything wrong with that), I did feel it was a bit overwrought and repetitive. Joyce Carol Oates is no Joan Didion; she is not cool, she is not measured, and she doesnt care to be, but personally that might be more my preference (not that its fair to bring up Joan Didion, but boxing kind of seems like something shed write about, though to my knowledge she hasnt).In some respects, I think Oates did nail some very crucial aspects of boxing, but in other ways I think she might be too hung up on its bloody core to the detriment of recognizing other aspects of the sport. Part of this I guess is because shes writing purely as a spectator and not as someone who has ever tried to box herself, and so I think the impulse that makes people want to do it remains very alien -- and thus, glamorized, exoticized, and covered in gore -- to her. I myself am training to box, and though I havent had any fights yet, I hope to at some point. Yet Im not black, male, or from the inner city, and while I can relate to some of what Oates says about boxing, I think she leaves out a lot of stuff that is there and is part of the allure of the sport for people. Of course, Im never going to be heavyweight champion of the world, or even anywhere near the professional level, so shes not really talking about me and it doesnt matter if she ignores things that are relevant to my experience... Still, though. I think she just sees certain parts of boxing, and to me those parts started to make the whole thing sound a little histrionic or at least myopic at times.All this is not to say though that there wasnt some great stuff in here, because there totally was. Early on, she denies that she can conceive of boxing as a metaphor for anything else, though she concedes that other things -- such as life -- might be a metaphor for boxing: Life is like boxing in many unsettling respects. But boxing is only like boxing (p. 4). Thats great. I mean, its great! Also great, the closing lines of her Tyson essay: This is not all that boxing is, but it is boxings secret premise: life is hard in the ring, but, there, you only get what you deserve (p. 180). There is plenty of other great stuff in here, really, and if you like boxing you would like it, though if you dont, you probably wouldnt... Aw man, I dont know... now that Im flipping through, I gotta say, I did like this book. She has gathered some wonderful quotations and she really writes about her subject with a profound enthusiasm and knowledge that is a lot of fun to read. Plus, it is so rad that she is a chick and a boxing fan!Still, putting in all these very redundant essays that actually repeat some of the exact same material seemed very lazy, and many of her points were really not strong or interesting enough to withstand that kind of repetition. In short, this guy wrote much better review of this book than I have, and basically I just agree with everything he said.Still dont know how to rate this, though Im REALLY PROUD OF MYSELF for writing this whole review without using one SINGLE boxing metaphor! Amazing. Kind of a miracle, really.
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