No experiment; it's a worthy read.

The other day, I posted Let Me Tell You A Story by John Feinstein with Red Auerbach. Having read that book, well, it's interesting but it's not written the Feinstein way. A Season On the Brink and The Punch are far far superior and way better reads. Honestly, as interesting as the history of the Boston Celtics is, the book fell a little below the hype and expectations. Maybe because a lot of it was the narration of Red. That's not putting down the late great coach who is always a fount of history and stories. I just felt that it read like an oral history that sort of lacked the taut descriptions of a master writer like Feinstein. And at times, the pace was slow.

Enter Grant Wahl's The Beckham Experiment. If you love Jack McCallum's writing, then you'll love this. A super great read and very revealing, Wahl, Sports Illustrated's football (I refuse to call it soccer) writer, spent quite a lot of time with Becks, the LA Galaxy, and the people surrounding the circus. If you think that what you read in the papers was interesting then this is a great insider story. This is also available at Fully Booked for about Php1,200 at hardcover.