Book details:
Sports, Memoir, Art
Illustrated with over 70 color photos and artwork
Paperback • 232 pages • 6 in x 9 in
ISBN: 978-1-7333864-7-0
Publication Date: May 1st, 2023
About the Author:
Brooks Roddan lives and works in San Francisco where he writes every day, enjoys making small-scale paintings and collage, and operates IF SF Publishing, leaving town as often as possible to his cabin in upstate Wyoming where nothing is expected of him. Read More…
GOLF IS RUINING MY LIFE
by BROOKS RODDAN
Golf is Ruining My Life is a book of reckonings, meant to be both playful and serious, told by a golfer who has a love/hate relationship with the game. Part Dada Art book, part sociology, part intellectual adventure with a sidekick, part personal confession. Does the narrator hate golf? No, he loves golf but he sometimes dislikes the people who play it, including himself, and questions all the time he’s spent playing it.
List Price: $24.00
Praises, Reviews & Interviews:
“From an early reader of ‘Golf is Ruining My Life’—
“Thanks, you have created something special!!!
It will now reside on my golf shelf with
Who’s Your Caddy, (Rick Reilly)
Golf in the Kingdom, (Michael Murphy),
Golf and the Art of War (Don Wade)
Golf for Enlightenment (Deepak Chopra)
The Greatest Game Ever Played (Mark Frost)
The Inner Game of Golf (Tim Gallway)”
“This is a uniquely intriguing book, at some points insightful, at other points funny and entertaining, and often thought-provoking. I am savoring it at a slow pace.”
“Just wanted to tell you I have been reading GOLF Is Ruining My Life slowly over the last few days and it is astonishing. In every best of ways..consider this reader blown away”
“Lechery, Anarchy, Delirium, Bourgeois Inertia, Flagrant Hypocrisy, Primitive Injustice, An Order of Organized Crime in Fact”
“ love this narrative style of yours—I swear it feels very distinctive, all your own. It bubbles along quietly about poetry and art and then some delicious thing turns up, like in a Jacques Tati movie. You are the Mr. Hulot of the links. ”
“I love golf but there’s something about golf and golfers that’s really disturbing. I’m not sure what it is but I’m going to get to the bottom of it, even if it takes the rest of my life.”
“Mysteriously pleasant and consciously frustrating, Brooks Roddan’s golf course lies in the golden triangle between Dada, Thomas Bernhard, and Gertrude Stein.”
“While I haven’t read many golf books, yours is singular in how it approaches relationships among golf partners. I really love how you’ve captured the ‘scene’, and meantime received insight after insight into the interpersonal dimensions of the “sport”…
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“5.0 out of 5 stars An endearing, poetic look golf and life
Reviewed in the United States on June 7, 2023
This charming tale is about how nuanced our lives really are, if you are open to it, the way this book’s narrator is. Everyday our mind reacts to the same activities in different ways. It sees things it didn’t see before, or it dwells on things it previously ignored. Sometimes it fusses, fumes or worries, at other times it’s full of delight and wonder. It’s almost as though our mind is a writer, constantly looking for new material for a story or poem or a new philosophical angle on what life is really all about. Sometimes this a beautiful experience, at other times, it’s downright absurd, which is why it make sense that the author ends us using the famous absurdist and Dada artist Kurt Schwitters as his mental caddie to navigate him down the weird and wonderful course of this game called life.
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