· With Billy Clyde reflecting on himself, his friends and his beginnings, Semi-Tough rambles through a broken field of personal anecdotes and insights relevant in Author: Larry Keith. Infused with Dan Jenkins's characteristic joie de vivre and replete with cigarettes, whiskey, and wild women, Semi-Tough is an uproarious romp through a lost era of professional sports that will have any armchair quarterback falling out of his or her recliner in hysterics on a semi-regular basis.4/5(). · Semi-Tough by Dan Jenkins (Da Capo Press ) (Fiction). This is an uproarious novel about three best friends, two of whom are totally irreverent pro football stars. Jenkins creates some unforgettable teammates. When I was fourteen, I thought this was the funniest book ever written/5.
Made into a hilarious and timeless film starring Burt Reynolds, Kris Kristofferson, and Jill Clayburgh, and recently named number seven on Sports Illustrated's Top Sports Books of All Time, Semi-Tough is Dan Jenkins's masterpiece and considered by many to be the funniest sports book ever written. The novel follows the outsize adventures of Billy Clyde Puckett, star halfback for the New. Dan Jenkins. TABLE OF CONTENTS. Now, for the perpetrator of Semi-Tough—me—it has sort of semi-ended with Billy Clyde crawling into the mind and body of Burt Reynolds and having a few more of those escapades that were never really intended for the enjoyment of priests, grandmothers and Wellington Mara, anyway. 6 quotes from Dan Jenkins: 'All day long I've been telling myself it's only a merry-go-round. Some people fall off quicker than others. No big mystery.', 'Laughter is the only thing that cuts trouble down to a size where you can talk to it.', and 'Laughter is the only thing that cuts trouble down to a size where you can talk to it. -- character Billy Clyde Puckett in Semi-Tough'.
Dan Jenkins has 34 books on Goodreads with ratings. Dan Jenkins’s most popular book is Semi-Tough. Semi-Tough is based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Dan Jenkins, and the screenplay was written by Walter Bernstein. Bernstein and director Michael Ritchie used parts of Jenkins's novel and added parodies of self-help groups, new religions, and the Human Potential Movement. All of these trends in bestselling fiction are present in Dan Jenkins' bestseller, Semi-Tough. The novel shows that the trends that were present ten and twenty years before its publication were still utilized when Semi-Tough began selling in the fall of
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