Shanks for Nothing (Missing Links #2) - Rick Reilly Audiobook

Written by Rick Reilly
Read by Stephen Hoye
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps

General Information
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Title: Shanks For Nothing
Author: Rick Reilly
Read By: Stephen Hoye
Copyright: 2006
Audiobook Copyright: 2006
Genre: Speech
Publisher: Books On Tape
Series Name: Ponky
Position in Series: 02
Abridged: No

Original Media Information
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Media: CD
Number: 8
Source: Library
Condition: Very Good

File Information
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Number of MP3s: 8
Total Duration: 9:00:11
Total MP3 Size: 247.37
Parity Archive: No
Ripped With: EAC
Encoded With: LAME 3.97
Encoded At: CBR 64 kbit/s 44100 Hz Mono
Normalize: MP3Gain, Track 89.0dB
Noise Reduction: None
ID3 Tags: Set, v1.1, v2.3

Book Description
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From Publishers Weekly
In this madcap sequel to Reilly’s golf farce Missing Links, little has
changed at Ponkaquogue Municipal Golf Links and Deli (a.k.a. Ponky)-arguably
America’s worst golf course. Boston-area legend Ray Hart, groomed by
his father for golf greatness, continues to ply his trade as a greeting
card writer while hanging out with his pals at Ponky. Ray’s “collection
of no-account friends” includes “half-man, half-cappuccino” Two Down,
Hoover (so named because he “sucks” at golf), Dom, the “World’s Most
Sexual Man,” and Ray’s spitfire five-handicap wife Dannie. The thin
plot centers on the proposed sale of Ponky to the adjacent, upscale
Mayflower Club for use as a parking lot. Ponky’s regulars can’t imagine
life without their wretched refuge and hatch a plot to save the course
that includes Ray flying to England to try qualifying for the British
Open. The outcome is predictable, and Reilly never relents on the puns,
sports and celebrity metaphors and double-entendres, occasionally crossing
the line from irreverence to poor taste. The usually reliable Reilly
shanks too many shots here to make par, but his fans-and they are legion-likely
won’t mind.

From AudioFile
Rick Reilly’s latest golf novel proves that even one of America’s most
popular sportswriters can miss the fairway. Although his book is intermittently
entertaining, the story shows that Reilly is more in search of a punch
line than a story line. While the disjointedness of the book may be
a function of the abridgment, Nick Stevens’s reading plays right into
the same trap. His presentation seems “forced,” as though he’s a comedian
who reads every line in anticipation of the audience’s laughter. If
you simply want a quick shot of Rick Reilly, this may do the trick;
otherwise, the listener may want to take a mulligan. D.J.S. © AudioFile
2006, Portland, Maine

From Booklist
The “chops” from Ponky (Ponkaquogue Municipal Golf Course and Deli)
are in trouble. A little backstory is required: Raymond “Stick” Hart
and his regular fivesome, the chops (Missing Links, 1996), enjoy the
occasional, somewhat unconventional wager (Ray, for example, gives Leonard
“Two-Down” Petrovitz a half-shot a hole, plus a 100-yard head start,
plus one throw a side). Now, however, their freewheeling approach to
the gentlemanly game is at risk: the owner wants to sell Ponky, renowned
as “America’s worst golf links,” to the blue-blood country club next
door, whose members intend to turn it into a parking lot. It’s up to
the chops to save Ponky, but their first scheme, pitting scratch-golfer
Ray against a mobbed-up con man in a big-money match, goes bad, prompting
the gang to devise ever-more outlandish schemes to save their hides
and their course. No one (except perhaps Dan Jenkins in his prime) does
the comic golf novel better than Reilly, and if he loads a few too many
subplots into this one, who’s counting? After all, at Ponky you can
carry as many clubs in your bag as you like. Bill Ott

Book Description
The hilarious sequel to Rick Reilly’s beloved bestselling golf novel
Missing Links

Life is going pretty well for Raymond “Stick” Hart. He’s happily married
to the former Ponkaquogue Municipal Golf Club assistant pro, the beauteous
Cajun firecracker Dannie, raising his rambunctious son, Charlie, and
getting by writing smart-mouthed greeting cards for fifty bucks a pop.
Best of all, nothing has changed at Ponky, the worst golf course in
America. You still have to hook it past the toxic waste dump on No.
1 and under the billboard on No. 8, the fried-egg sandwiches are terrible
but cheap, and his pal Two Down is always up for a sucker bet.

Then, one disaster of a day, Stick’s world does a ten-car pile-up. The
cheapskate bastard owner of Ponky announces he’s retiring to a nudist
camp in Florida and selling the club to the Mayflower Club next door,
a bastion of blue-blood snobbery that plans to pave Ponky over. Worse,
its membership includes Stick’s hated father.

Who promptly drops dead.

Just before Stick’s pal Two Down loses $12,000 to a golf hustler who
turns out to be funded by the Russian mob.

Which is about the same time that Hoover, Ponky’s worst golfer and the
owner of an impressive array of useless golf gadgets purchased with
his wife’s money, learns she’ll cut him off if he doesn’t break a hundred
in one month.

Then a practical joke makes Dannie believe that Stick’s been stepping
out with the gorgeous new clubhouse girl, the eye-popping Kelly, and
he’s soon living on the forty-year-old couch in the Ponky clubhouse.

Luckily, Stick has a solution to all his problems.

He’ll qualify for the British Open.

About the Author
rick reilly is the author of Missing Links, Slo-Mo, The Life of Reilly,
and the New York Times bestseller Who’s Your Caddy? A senior writer
for Sports Illustrated, he has been voted National Sportswriter of the
Year ten times. He lives in Denver, Colorado, with his three children
and a putter he’s not currently speaking to.