Fantasy Life, Matthew Berry
Fantasy Life, Matthew Berry
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Fantasy Life
The Outrageous, Uplifting, and Heartbreaking World of Fantasy Sports from the Guy Who's Lived It

Author: Matthew Berry

Narrator: Matthew Berry

Unabridged: 8 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 07/16/2013

Synopsis

Fantasy football, fantasy baseball, fantasy basketball, even fantasy sumo wrestling: the world of fantasy sports is huge, and still growing. Today, more than 35 million people in the United States and Canada spend hours upon hours each week on their fantasy sports teams. And as the Senior Fantasy Sports Analyst for ESPN, Matthew Berry is on the front lines of what has grown from a niche subculture into a national pastime.

In Fantasy Life, Berry celebrates every aspect of the fantasy sports world. Brilliant trash talk. Unbelievable trophies. Insane draft day locations. Shake-your-head-in-disbelief punishments. Ingenious attempts at cheating. And surprisingly uplifting stories that remind us why we play these games in the first place.

Written with the same award-winning style that has made Berry one of the most popular columnists on ESPN.com, Fantasy Life is an audiobook for both hard-core fantasy players and people who have never played before. Between tales of love and hate, birth and death, tattoos and furry animal costumes, the White House Situation Room and a 126-pound golden pelican, Matthew chronicles his journey from a fourteen-year-old fantasy player to the face of fantasy sports for the largest sports media company in the world.

Fantasy will save your life. Fantasy will set you free. And fantasy life is most definitely better than real life. You’ll see.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mara on January 04, 2016

If, like yours truly, you're a lover of fantasy sports (football & basketball for this kid) as well as audiobooks, then today's Audible Daily Dealis almost as exciting as finding out that Tom Brady was fully reinstated, having drafted him in the tenthroundfor your fantasy league. Ok, well maybe n......more

Goodreads review by Flora on September 11, 2013

I like fantasy football, and I am particularly fond of Matthew Berry's love/hate column. I suppose my husband likes both even more, since he's the one who took this book out from the library. Toward the end of the book Berry quotes a friend describing this work as a love letter to fantasy. That soun......more

Goodreads review by Stephen on July 04, 2014

Fantasy Life suffers from a common malady to books in which material from daily columns, no matter what the subject, are transfomed into books with a new framing material. What is interesting and informative in ten minute bites during each day or week rapidly palls when strung together into book for......more

Goodreads review by James on February 28, 2017

So, folks. This is what I spent weeks in anticipation for. Something that I was going to just say. Hey, I made it! But little did I know this would be a heck of a journey. First and foremost, I would like to thank Ms. Lydia Hirt of the Penguin Group for sending this book to me. I appreciate this ver......more

Goodreads review by Kevin on September 04, 2013

Four years ago, I participated in my first fantasy football draft. Like most newbies, I had no idea what I was doing that first year and finished the season with a record of 2-11. Despite my objective failure, however, I fell in love with this virtual sport and have increased my participation each y......more

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