The Downhill Lie by Dakota Drenth https://padlet.com/ddrenth/y36l91ippbll A Hacker's Return To A Ruinous Sport en-us 2018-10-22 13:40:46 UTC 2024-05-26 10:09:41 UTC hello@padlet.com About the Author: ddrenth https://padlet.com/ddrenth/y36l91ippbll/wish/296437384 Carl Andrew Hiaasen was born on March 12, 1953 in Plantation Florida. He was married twice and had 3 children throughout the 2 marriages. He attended Emory University from 1970-1972 and graduated from the University of Florida in 1774 with a degree for journalism. He started writing when he was six years old when his father bought him a typewriter for Christmas. After college, he worked for the newspaper of Cocoa, Florida, Cocoa Today, for two years and then worked for The Miami Herald.
Hiaasen started off by writing mystery thrillers with his friend, William D. Montalbano, and later then started to go on a individual route by writing his own adult fiction. Hiaasen has published 20 novels for adults and five for young kids since the start of his solo career. He has only written two non-fiction books, one about golf and one about the Disney company. He has had numerous honors for his novels and books, including being on the New York Times best Sellers List, 2010 Ernie Pyle Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists, and the Newbery Medal. 
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]]> 2018-10-24 13:46:29 UTC https://padlet.com/ddrenth/y36l91ippbll/wish/296437384 Carl Hiaasen ddrenth https://padlet.com/ddrenth/y36l91ippbll/wish/296441777 The author:]]> 2018-10-24 13:53:23 UTC https://padlet.com/ddrenth/y36l91ippbll/wish/296441777 Summary ddrenth https://padlet.com/ddrenth/y36l91ippbll/wish/297219241 The book The Downhill Lie by Carl Hiaasen is a confessional story about Carl Hiaasen returning to the fairways after 32 years. Carl’s father got him into the sport of golf, but he then quit in 1973. The memories never faded for him and he realized that he wanted to go back to his youth and golf again. At this time, he is already a father and a grandfather. Throughout the book, he shares hilarious stories from his time back to the fairfields and his childhood memories when he played with his father. Hiaasen also describes how terrible he played in a member-guest tournament, in which he played on his home field. ]]> 2018-10-25 23:55:52 UTC https://padlet.com/ddrenth/y36l91ippbll/wish/297219241 Quote #1: ddrenth https://padlet.com/ddrenth/y36l91ippbll/wish/297220877 Page 98 Paragraph 2:
"It seemed like a no-brainer. Golf couldn't be that hard to learn, I thought to myself."]]> 2018-10-26 00:06:39 UTC https://padlet.com/ddrenth/y36l91ippbll/wish/297220877 Quote #2: ddrenth https://padlet.com/ddrenth/y36l91ippbll/wish/297221209 Page 72 paragraph 2 & 4
"Not Justin Timberlake. Please." "He was in a freakin' boy band, okay? He cannot be such an excellent golfer. It just ain't right."]]> 2018-10-26 00:08:40 UTC https://padlet.com/ddrenth/y36l91ippbll/wish/297221209 Quote 3: ddrenth https://padlet.com/ddrenth/y36l91ippbll/wish/297222625 Page 54 Paragraph 5:
"A more cunning tack of deceit, I learned, is to present oneself as a worse golfer than one actually is."]]> 2018-10-26 00:17:44 UTC https://padlet.com/ddrenth/y36l91ippbll/wish/297222625 Quote #4: ddrenth https://padlet.com/ddrenth/y36l91ippbll/wish/297223810 Page 54 Paragraph 4
"As is true in sportfishing, golf for some men is basically a dick-measuring contest."]]> 2018-10-26 00:24:41 UTC https://padlet.com/ddrenth/y36l91ippbll/wish/297223810 Audio Clip: ddrenth https://padlet.com/ddrenth/y36l91ippbll/wish/297225551 https://soundcloud.com/penguin-audio/the-downhill-lie-by-carl]]> 2018-10-26 00:34:43 UTC https://padlet.com/ddrenth/y36l91ippbll/wish/297225551 Book Cover: ddrenth https://padlet.com/ddrenth/y36l91ippbll/wish/297229739 Paperback]]> 2018-10-26 00:51:24 UTC https://padlet.com/ddrenth/y36l91ippbll/wish/297229739 Excerpt ddrenth https://padlet.com/ddrenth/y36l91ippbll/wish/297230444 In the summer of 2005, I returned to golf after a much needed layoff of thirty-two years.
Attempting a comeback in my fifties wouldn’t have been so absurd if I’d been a decent player when I was young, but unfortunately that wasn’t the case. At my best, I’d shown occasional flashes of competence. At my worst, I’d been a menace to all carbon-based life-forms on the golf course.
On the day I gave up golfing, I stood six-feet even, weighed a stringy 145 pounds and was in relatively sound physical shape. When I returned to the game, I was half an inch taller, twenty-one pounds heavier and nagged by the following age-related ailments:
• elevated cholesterol; 
• a bone spur deep in the right rotator cuff; 
• an aching right hip; 
• a permanently weakened right knee, due to a badly torn medial 
meniscus that was scraped and repaired in February 2003 by the 
same orthopedic surgeon who’d once worked on a young professional 
quarterback named Dan Marino. (The doctor had assured me that 
my injury was no worse than Marino’s, then he’d added with a hearty 
chuckle, “But you’re also not twenty-two years old.”)
Other factors besides my knee joint and HDL had changed during my long absence. When I’d abandoned golf in 1973, I had been a happily married father of a two-year-old son. When I returned to the sport in 2005, I was a happily remarried father of a five-year-old son, a fourteen-year-old stepson and a thirty-four-year-old son with three kids of his own. In other words, I was a grandpa.
Over those three busy and productive decades, a normal, well-centered person would have mellowed in the loving glow of the family hearth. Not me. I was just as restless, consumed, unreflective, fatalistic and emotionally unequipped to play golf in my fifties as I was in my teens.
What possesses a man to return in midlife to a game at which he’d never excelled in his prime, and which in fact had dealt him mostly failure, angst and exasperation?
Here’s why I did it: I’m one sick bastard.]]> 2018-10-26 00:56:01 UTC https://padlet.com/ddrenth/y36l91ippbll/wish/297230444 Quote #5: ddrenth https://padlet.com/ddrenth/y36l91ippbll/wish/297230896 Page 4 Paragraph 5
"Here's why I did it: I'm one sick bastard."]]> 2018-10-26 00:58:40 UTC https://padlet.com/ddrenth/y36l91ippbll/wish/297230896 What is a Downhill Lie? ddrenth https://padlet.com/ddrenth/y36l91ippbll/wish/297231910 2018-10-26 01:05:58 UTC https://padlet.com/ddrenth/y36l91ippbll/wish/297231910 Book Cover: ddrenth https://padlet.com/ddrenth/y36l91ippbll/wish/297232171 Hared Cover]]> 2018-10-26 01:07:41 UTC https://padlet.com/ddrenth/y36l91ippbll/wish/297232171 Back of Book ddrenth https://padlet.com/ddrenth/y36l91ippbll/wish/297233404 2018-10-26 01:14:48 UTC https://padlet.com/ddrenth/y36l91ippbll/wish/297233404