Bobby orr autobiography reviews

Readers appreciate the wonderful stories and photos from Orr's perspective.
Overall, I'd definitely recommend this book to anyone who loves hockey that has at least fundamental knowledge of the sport.
This book is an easy read, one that will be completed fairly quickly and will be enjoyed by any hockey fan of any level.

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Book Review: 'Orr: My Story' by Bobby Orr

THE PAST

Bobby Orr has put his story to paper. It is something that fans have wanted for years, but few believed would ever happen. And the story, like the player, is timeless. A few weeks ago, before the book was released, my son and I were driving over to Nassau Coliseum when he mentioned he is learning 10-finger typing in his 2^nd grade class.

I told him I was older when I learned to do that, and that somewhere I probably still have that manual typewriter and an electric one I used in college.

'What's a typewriter?' 'How did you make copies?' 'How did you erase mistakes?'

The questions came one after the other, and got harder to explain since I don't think I was able to really describe to him what a typewriter is, and it made me think. I told him that when you wrote on a typewriter, that sometimes letters weren't aligned, punctuation was bold, that when you finished, what you had was an original, something different.

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Sat. 10/12/13

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ORR: My Story
Bobby Orr has never told his life story – until now. And in his autobiography, “ORR: My Story,” which will be released on Tuesday (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, $27.95), there’s still a lot he holds back. And it’s something he makes no bones about -- it’s right there in the book’s introduction. While growing up, Orr writes, “we learned that you don’t throw someone under the bus.” And he doesn’t.

In his story, Orr keeps things positive, which works best when he is writing of his childhood and the town he helped put on the map -- Parry Sound, Ontario. It’s a small town a few hours north of Toronto, along the shore of Georgian Bay. It’s also the place where the daily routine of his childhood was pretty simple, leading the future star down to the shore as much as possible. “The only question,” he writes, “was whether the water would be frozen solid for hockey or open and flowing for fish.”

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