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by: Dan Middleman
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 615
EAN: 9781425932909
ISBN: 1425932908
Label: AuthorHouse
Manufacturer: AuthorHouse
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 232
Publication Date: June 07, 2006
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Sales Rank: 226184
Studio: AuthorHouse
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Richard Dubin is a talented distance runner at a major southern university. Pain is the story of Richard's senior year as he proceeds with varying success through the year, from cross country through the Olympic Trials, all the while trying to manage a seesawing relationship with a beautiful and fascinatingly unpredictable woman, 10 years his senior. Richard's university is one of the great American party schools and we are treated to a series of uninhibited college blowouts, featuring copious liquid consumption, naked kegstands, nude relays. . . and, most daring of all, poetry reading! As the pressures mount, Richard's life begins to unravel. All the forces converge at the Olympic Trials in New Orleans and it is there that Richard comes to the edge of the abyss.
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Rating:  - Great Book
This is a great book. Anyone that has ever been a collegiate runner can relate. Hard training, a miserable coach, nights of drinking- this book describes the collegiate running experience perfectly. And includes a suprise ending.
Rating: - INTENSE REALISM
Though not as uplifting as Once a Runner or as mentally stimulating as The Champion Maker, Pain is a realistic look at the way pressures to excel in distance running can drive a person to the brink. In that sense, it had a tragic feel similar to The Olympian, another running book I liked. As you would expect from a runner of Middleman's caliber, the training and racing descriptions are dead on. He also lightens the dark subject matter with some funny sections involving college pranks, drinking, ... Read More
Rating:  - Petty
This is a very negative and petty book, it does not motivate or inspire in any way. It is whiny, plaintive, and boring. I hope you got it out of your system Dan.
Rating: - The most forceful running book ever written
Dan Middleman, who has obviously read John L. Parker Jr.'s "Once a Runner," takes a different approach to the subject of the intensity of distance running that is anything but subdued, and thankfully so. This is a brutally honest and enthralling book that takes readers through the dark side of competitive distance running. Middleman's characters all face the toll of the double-sided card of competitive drive. Middleman focuses dually on the pressure they put on themselves to succeed and the pressure ... Read More
Rating: - dream your dreams
dan middleman's account of a nationally recognized collegiate distance runner is hauntingly familiar what many college stars deal with today. the author describes in great detail the intense desire to perform at a level which would earn his character respect and also give reason to choose a life of a professional athlete. we are led on a roller coaster ride from a wild relationship with a woman 10 years his senior to wild parties his fellow teammates have. we experience the maturation from a boy into a ... Read More
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