yo Amazon we need to talk you know I like insane subculture novels you know I like clunky infodumping novels you know I like books about weightlifting how did you not tell me Brooks Kubik wrote clunky infodumping fanfic novels about '30s & '40s lifters https://www.amazon.com/Legacy-Iron-Brooks-D-Kubik-ebook/dp/B00XTB43SC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1545235842&sr=8-1&keywords=legacy+of+iron …
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for those who do not know Brooks Kubik, he is a former attorney and longtime serious lifter who is *obsessed* with old-school muscle training author of such books as DINOSAUR TRAINING and KNIFE, FORK, MUSCLE and apparently now novels about weightlifters
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I am reading Brooks Kubik's first novel, LEGACY OF IRON as a novel, it is TERRIBLE as an infodump wallow, it is FANTASTIC
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LEGACY OF IRON consists of basically three things: 1) old-school weightlifters' workout routines 2) old-school weightlifters' competitions 3) old-school weightlifters reciting accounts of these to each other
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EDITOR. "And that is why you should only use one cup -- one! cup! -- of the historical research you did when making your historical novel" BROOKS KUBIK. *nods thoughtfully* BROOKS KUBIK. *backs up a railroad car filled to brim with historical research, yanks the door wide open*
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here's one thing LEGACY OF IRON made me realize, though: you know what genre of fiction, long totally extinct, merits a revival? sports fiction
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back in the days of the pulps, there were pulps for all genres, and one of the biggest was sports stories -- fictional stories about prizefights or races or what have you Robert E. Howard wrote some *brilliantly* fun boxing stories
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closest thing I've read in years to sports fiction was a mystery novel my mom bought, the title and author of which escape me and googling fails, but it was a mystery where the protagonist was a football player and the author was a former professional football player
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as a teen I accidentally read a sports novel because the cover had a football player and mushroom cloud on it and I thought it must be post-apocalyptic I kept waiting through all the training scenes and the games for the bomb to drop and find out how the players survived
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I finally concluded that the mushroom cloud must have been intended as a metaphor
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