The book I Am Third is very much a sports book. Our group overall didn't like the lack of emotion in the feeling of the book. We thought that he never felt passionate about anything but football. As we were discussing this our teacher told us Gale Sayers didn't write the book himself. This made the lack of emotion in the book make sense. If Gale is a quiet, shy, reserved man of course he isn't going to spill his deepest emotions to Al Silverman to be published all over the world. We have 3 girls in our group who love reading romatic, emotional books, so we didn't feel like this book was for us. The other 3 guys in our group like football but don't live it. We also felt that the book was a bit out of order chronologically. The connection between the author and the reader just wasn't there for any of us.
Who we would recommend this book to.....
We would recommend the book to anyone who loves football and understands the game. If you want a book about a man's struggle to work past an injury far deeper than just physical, and a determination to get back into the game of football, you would like this book.
Differences..
We read the book I Am Third and we also watched the movie Brian's Song. These are some of the differences we noticed...
- Brian's Song title vs. I am Third. We were glad they changed the title because the movie was only a few chapters of the book
- In Brian's Song, we saw Gale and Brians relationship develop. The book didn't explain much of this development which led us to questions of how they became such good friends.
- Linda and Gales relationship seemed meaningful and deep. When we read the book we felt that they had a shallow relationship that didn't have much value.
- We saw how Gale's personality really was in the movie, we saw his shyness come through.
- The movie was only a section of the book. Overall the book was about Gale's football carreer instead of the relationship between Gale and Brian.
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