My Losing Season

By: Pat Conroy

Narrated by: Chuck Montgomery

Length: 13 hrs and 59 mins

Publisher's summary

New York Times best seller

A deeply affecting coming-of-age memoir about family, love, loss, basketball - and life itself - by the beloved author of The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini

During one unforgettable season as a Citadel cadet, Pat Conroy becomes part of a basketball team that is ultimately destined to fail. And yet for a military kid who grew up on the move, the Bulldogs provide a sanctuary from the cold, abrasive father who dominates his life- and a crucible for becoming his own man.

With all the drama and incandescence of his best-selling fiction, Conroy re-creates his pivotal senior year as captain of the Citadel Bulldogs. He chronicles the highs and lows of that fateful 1966-67 season, his tough disciplinarian coach, the joys of winning, and the hard-won lessons of losing. Most of all, he recounts how a group of boys came together as a team, playing a sport that would become a metaphor for a man whose spirit could never be defeated.

©2002 Pat Conroy (P)2002 Random House Inc., Random House Audio, a Division of Random House Inc.

Critic reviews

"A superb accomplishment, maybe the finest book Pat Conroy has written." (The Washington Post Book World)

"A wonderfully rich memoir that you don’t have to be a sports fan to love." (Houston Chronicle)

"A memoir with all the Conroy trademarks.... Here’s ample proof that losers always tell the best stories." (Newsweek)

Great book! Ok narration...

Others have pointed this out, but Beaufort, SC is not pronounced the same as Beaufort, NC. If you (the listener) don’t know that, then you are lucky. If you DO know that, then it will bother you. Maybe not the first time... or the second time... but it’s a city that is talked about over and over again so eventually it will get to you.

Perfection

Another Conroy success! every time I read/listen to one of his books, I think it's the best. Then I read the next one. the only negative on this audio version, the mispronounced Beaufort.

Great book!

Great book but you may want to get narrators that pronounce the names of the cities in the book correctly. Beaufort, SC is not pronounced the same way as Beaufort, NC.

NOT A LOSER

I'm a first time reader to the Pat Conroy series and the first book , the Losing Saeson will propel me to read all of his books, It's the type of book that you hate to put down . I feel like I'm in the book and want to be a character. Great stuff and can't wait until my next book arrives.

Highly Recommended

Even if you're like me and don't particularlly like basketball, you'll be caught up in this engaging view into Pat Conroy's life. Brilliantly read by Chuck Montgomery.

good story, odd audio

The audio changes to lower quality halfway through the book, otherwise really good story and narrator

Background noise

Lots of background noise during performance. Also could tell when narrator stopped reading one section and then picked up again. Story was good.

Poor reading

I was really disappointed by the reading of this book, especially the many mispronunciations of places important in Conroy's past. Every time this narrator said "Bo-fort" (which was MANY), I found myself yelling "Bew-fort" aloud in irritation. That kind of repeated error can be very distracting for someone who is familiar with Conroy and his past.

Overall I really liked the book itself, and would recommend that someone new to Conroy read some of his other books first, for context... Especially Lords of Discipline.

Thoroughly Enjoyed

This was my first experience in Pat Conroys world and will have to say the book was so well written that I caught myself wondering why all books are not written like this. The book brought me in to the Citadel, the world of Mel Thompson, and the Great Santini. I would listen to this book again. This was my 15th or so audiobook in 6 months. I do believe that you have to like some aspect of literature and sports to truely get all there is in this book.

Memory lane

What a wonderful trip. It was so much of my life that I thank Mr. Conroy for the insight into my family and that time in history.It was more then a reviews of the season it was a review of our lives. It seems as if Mr. Conroy was writing about my life. Thank you