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entertaining read, but not quite great, As a huge Pats fan, I was able to sink easily into Pierce's clear obsession with our QB, but I'm not sure all readers would be as enthralled, nor am I sure that all readers would understand the droves of football vernacular necessarily used in the text.
More importantly, I found the focus a bit narrow, even though Pierce is fond of the tangent, which lent a pervasive feeling of "it's too soon for this book" that I couldn't shake.
Adding to that feeling is the fact that the book was written before the Pats'season, which would have fit all too well into the themes Pierce is exploring here, and it's a shame he didn't wait.
A more than decent bit of sportswriting, though it never feels complete, This is undoubtedly one of the oddest biographies I have ever read, And one of the most intriguing,

Author Charles Pierce tries to uncover what makes Tom Brady tic, What makes him such a consummate team player and leader on the field What made a player drafted in the sixth round, whom nobody but maybe Bill Belichick and Scott Piloli, thought would ever amount to much in the pros, become a Hall of Fame bound quarterback, one of the best to have ever played

There are a lot of things.


First, Brady was never the most gifted athlete and he had to work for everything through high school and college.
In fact, he was barely recruited and his father put together a video package and he ultimately ended up at the University of Michigan.
He persevered despite not even being a full time starter, even as a senior, despite that he was a winner.


Second, in the pros his work ethic is infectious to his teammates, He is the first to arrive and the last to leave, His hard work put him in a position to take over for Drew Bledsoe when he was hurt during theregular season and progress.
He became the team leader that despite his talents Beldsoe never really was,

Third, he is a team first player, He truly buys in to the Patriots' modern day credo, there is no "I" in team, He doesn't care about stats, he cares about wins, But that has propelled him to put up unbelievable stats,

And he his simply a nice person, He gives credit where credit is due, He doesn't do a lot of endorsements, And when he had the opportunity to do one for a credit card company he refused to do it unless his offensive linemen, his protectors, were involved.
He wanted them to shine to,

Don't believe Tom Brady is a really good guy in a sport fraught with me first, selfish, athletes with an undertone of criminality Read Charlie Weiss's book about his near death experience and how Brady helped him and his wife out in their time of greatest need.
Read Tedy Bruschi's book that has a few anecdotes about what Brady's friendship means, Or simply read this book about to hear what his family, friends, and teammates have all said about his leadership skills.
There is a reason his teammates and coaches have the utmost confidence in him,

The oddest aspect of this book is Brady himself did not participate in it and it really takes somewhat of a psychologist's approach at times in examining its subject.
From the influence of his Catholic upbringing, the impact of his athletic older sisters who sometimes outshined him in his youth, to his perseverance in the face of sports adversity, you learn the inner workings of one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time.


This is a recommended read, This book tries to make Brady seem like a demigod, While he definitely is an elite quarterback, this book is a bit much, There are some flubs and things stretched to make him sound better, Being a huge Michigan Wolverines fan, I was able to find some disputable things

regarding Brady's college days thrown into the book.
While Brady and Pats fans will love it which is what I am, Brady detractors will love it as well love it because it is more of a trashy worship book than great read.
Ordered this off of Amazon on a whim because I have a strange Tom Brady obsession that refuses to die even in the midst of "Deflategate".
It gave me a pretty decent background on him and some snippets of insights on him from family, teammates, coaches, etc I was really interested in what Bill Belichick had to say, in particular, and it was wellwritten in parts, but a lot of times the author veered off talking about Brady to describe some person/event/game who is barely able to be connected back to him.
For much of the book, the author seemed more concerned with using fancy language and dramatization to make every detail bigger than it really was, which really serves more to cheapen Brady's story than enhance it.
At one point, he even brings in philosophy about loyalty, which while it seemed to fit, also sounded way too pompous for a sports biography.
Overall, though, I did enjoy it the documentation of his time at Michigan was particularly interesting, even having seen the Bradya few times.
I was a little disappointed with this because the pacing and writing style of Charles Pearce was bad.
The only thing that kept me going back to this bookand the only reason it got that third starwas because there was lots of background on Tom.
I wouldn't recommend reading this unless you really want to learn more about Brady and/or you've got nothing else on your plate to read.
A little bit of a hagiography in places, but Pierce is such a spectacularly intelligent writer that he turns it into much more than a dull sports bio.
Shades of John McPhee. Too bad he didn't wait until this season to write it, Moving the Chains: Tom Brady and the Pursuit of Everything a story about Tom Bradys life, The book covers everything from when he was a young, unathletic kid from San Mateo California, to current day when he has won three super bowls and two league MVP awards.
The author covers all of the ups and downs of Tom Bradys life, Tom Brady himself chimes in at times in the book to express his opinion on some of his greatest accomplishments or failures.

This is a really greatly written book, The author definitely knows a lot about football, His knowledge of the sport definitely made the reading experience much more enjoyable, because I hate reading a book written by someone who is not very educated on the topic.
He used good imagery in his writing to make you feel as if you were there at the stadium, or wherever the story was taking place.
I would suggest this book to anyone who has a pretty good prior knowledge about the game of football.

I rate this book aout of, It was the best book that I have read all year, I liked it because Tom Brady is one of my favorite football players ever, and it was really cool to learn just a little more about him.
Also like I said before, the author did a great job of making the book fun and interesting to read.
I finally know why they call Tom the goat! When Tom Brady entered theNFL season as lead quarterback for the New England Patriots, the defending Super Bowl champions, he was hailed as the best to ever play the position.
And with good reason: he was the youngest quarterback to ever win a Super Bowl the only quarterback in NFL history to win three Super Bowls before turning twentyeight the fourth player in history to win multiple Super Bowl MVP awards.
He started the season with arecord, the best of any NFL quarterback since,
Awardwinning sports journalist Charles P, Pierce's "Moving the Chains "explains how Brady reached the top of his profession and" "how he stays there.
It is a study in highly honed skills, discipline, " "and making the most of good fortune, and is shot through with ironiesa sixthround draft pick turned superstar" "leading a football dynasty that was once so bedraggled it had to play a home game in Birmingham, Alabama, because no stadium around Boston would have it.
It is also about an ordinary man and an ordinary" "team becoming extraordinary, Pierce interviewed Brady's friends, family, coaches, and teammates, He interviewed" "Brady notably for "Sports Illustrated"'sSportsman of the Year cover article, And then he got the" "one thing he needed to truly take Brady's measure:turned out to be the toughest Patriots season in five years.
A fascinating look at Brady's career when he was in his fifth year in the NFL, Pierce does a great job of weaving Pats history into the narrative of Brady's career to help fully cement the impact Tom Brady has had on a once dysfunctional franchise.
Entertaining, though I'm a bit biased, Did teach me a few interesting things about the business of football, More importantly, it makes you realize that hard work, passion and dedication football buzz words that they are can help you to overcome being overlooked.
. . like Brady was time and time again, Pierce's wonderful and eclectic writing style cover over what is admittedly a shy and frankly very young subject for an autobiography.
This book should be considered by both fans of Brady and those who aren't because it is really a series of essays by Pierce that riff off Brady as the central theme, from religion, to the history of New England football, to Michigan college football, to the plight of the veterans of the NFL, this book is a treat and I was disappointed when I got to the end that there wasn't more! If I had read this when it was written, it would have been interesting.
The only parts I found extremely "I want to read this RIGHT now" was when he talked about Brady's childhood.
The next years are much more interesting and I think it was a little premature to write a book about him.
A really good insight into the lives of football players and their families,

To me this book feels like the Tom Brady books, It does just obsess over a lead character, It gives an insight into the history of the team, It gives an insight into the college pain that is the draft, It talks about the players around Brady, It talks about the team, It is about family. Pretty fast seemed too short, Probably because Brady is very guarded with his personal life, But was interesting to read about his family's impact in his life and to see how he became so driven.
Well, here's the thing. I've always appreciated what Brady has done for my team, but I've never been a huge fan of him.
So, I thought I would learn a little about him and see if that would change my mind some.
And it did. Taken with a grain of salt, he seems like a decent guy, for the most part, He certainly works hard, and I appreciate his attitude, That being said, this author did very little to engage a reader who is NOT a Patriots fan.
In fact, if I were the fan of another team, I would have been turned off by the author more than anything else.
There was a lot of slurping all over Brady and the Patriots, almost a tone of disdain, that even as a Patriots fan, I found a bit distasteful.
We won't even discuss how scornful he speaks of baseball, which didn't sit well with me, The writing, itself, was okish, Sometimes he overexplained references he made, other times he just assumed the reader knew who some obscure person was without a single descriptor or deeper identification.
The other thing that I found a little disconcerting was the way the author told the "story" of thePatriots season, while linking each game or two to something in Brady's personal history.
Some of these links were a stretch, at best, and some were just downright jolting in the jumps back and forth through time.
Overall, I'd give Tom's story a solid four, but this author's failure to be objective through most of the book, combined with the way he chose to tell Tom's story, are what I rated a generous three.
Good book. Author jumps around a bit too much for my liking though, Charles P. Charlie Pierce is a nationally known American sportswriter, author, and game show panelist, His best known work is Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free.
Charles P. "Charlie" Pierce is a nationally known American sportswriter, author, and game show panelist, His best known work is Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free.
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