Reading CLOUDS OF WAR, the 2nd of Brooks Kubik's old-school weightlifter novels. ME. "You're improving as a writer" BK. "Thanks!" ME. "Book one's pure infodump, but this is a fun opening with your hero attempting an elusive PR -- what's next?" BK. *smiles, grasps infodump lever*
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Book 2 so far: 1) old-school weightlifter routines 2) old-school weightlifters breathlessly recounting the latest feats of other old-school weightlifters to their friends who are ALSO old-school weightlifters 3) old-school weightlifters saving people with Heroic Feats of Strength
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My favorite ridiculous part of Book 2 so far is when two of the weightlifter heroes save a boy from a terrible car wreck and immediately give the crowd of onlookers a sales pitch for the equipment sold by the York Barbell Company
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another interesting and also ridiculous thing about Brooks Kubik's CLOUDS OF WAR is that the front matter includes raves for the first book by serious lifters obsessed with old-school lifting ...this is what gun nut books are like for people who aren't gun nuts, isn't it
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so I finished Brooks Kubik's second York Barbell Team Adventures novel, CLOUDS OF WAR, but I realized I never got around to updating you guys on what exactly Brooks Kubik is up to with this series and oh boy
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BROOKS KUBIK. "Can I pitch you my novel series" PUBLISHER. "Sure, you have one minute" BK. "Remember Herman Wouk's WINDS OF WAR and WAR AND REMEMBRANCE? Like that. But *better.*" PUBLISHER, curious. "Better? Better how?" BK, leaning forward intently. "They are all weightlifters"
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yes if you have ever thought, "the problem with this epic story of war and romance is that *there are just not enough weightlifters in it,*" Brooks Kubik's LEGACY OF IRON series IS FOR YOU
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imagine GONE WITH THE WIND's Margaret Mitchell was OBSESSED with like steeplechasing and there were endless infodump chapters about Rhett Butler practicing riding & saddles & boots & guys talking about races BROOKS KUBIK. "That's what I'm going for" ME. "No, look, see--"
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I mean, can you imagine a serious writer, one with a compelling literary plot about men, and their motivations, and obsessions, just going on and on pointlessly about the minutia of the mechanical tasks his characters are performi--pic.twitter.com/XFMcIltQXS
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before 1973 we had to call Stockholm syndrome something so we called it "literary merit"
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