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(More customer reviews)I enjoyed this book. If you want to learn about the Boston Bruins quickly this book will do it.
I like that basically all the major events in the Bruins history are discussed. The book goes from the beginning of th organization to the end organized in mini chapters of a few pages on each topic, just enough to give you the information needed. I learned new facts about the Kraut line, the early seasons of the 20's, 30's 40's and 50's. I got a good grasp of just what events kept setting the B's back from winning the cup, etc.
The reason I couldn't give it 5 stars is the following,
You will end up reading some of the same material twice, such as when there is a chapter about the evolution of Bruins jersies which includes the winter classic design in detail and then the chapter on the actual Winter Classic game that has the same exact info.
Players come up in different chapters and the same information is listed over and over again.
The book title is 100 things you should know and DO, however in reality there are only about 8 chapters listing things you should do and quite frankly they are a bit cheesey. Watch Rescue Me? How about watch a B's Canadiens game or a playoff game in the Garden. Another is Collect Bruins Memorabilia, which is basically an Ad for Sports World in Saugus.
One Chapter mentions Babineau and his strech of being the Bs photographer since the 70's but fails to mention his book Black and Gold: Four Decades of the Boston Bruins in Photographs, which has a ton of the great photos the author mentions in the book.
If the author just stuck to things you should KNOW it would be a better book than stretching it out with nonsense about things you should DO. Maybe half of the things you should do I would actually recommend and I think I could come up better ones too.
Again, I did enjoy this book, I am a big Bruins fans so I am a bit more critical than others. This would be a great gift for any Bruins fan.
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