Blind Your Ponies by Stanley Gordon West, took place in small town Willow Creek, Montana. Sam had gone there to escape the frightful death of his wife, and ended up finding a passion that him and the rest of the town needed. He became the basketball coach for the high school of the town. The basketball team hadn’t won a single game in nine years. There was hope for him and the basketball team, because two new kids came to town. Peter, one of the local’s grandson, and Olaf, a foreign exchange student who height beat most are the new kids. The basketball team went through a lot to get to state. They fought and won.
Sam, the basketball coach of team, goes through a really hard time trying to deal with the death of his love of his life. Diana had helped him through it, when she became the assistant coach of the basketball team. The main basketball players were: Tom, Peter, Olaf, Dean , and Curtis. Dean’s sister, Denise, was a symbol and a mascot to the boys’ basketball team. Denise had cerebral palsy, but still managed to get up everyday to face the world, which was very inspiring to the team.
“Shopping for love at a flea market. It’s so easy to believe, so we are starving for it,” Stanley Gordon West wrote in his novel. The idea that love is more of this energy that people strive for really caught the readers attention. It made the point that we are all looking for something, but we don’t really even know what we are looking for. Like shopping at the flea market, it all looks really good, but most of it is junk, and we don’t know what to choose. We become baffled, it was poetic.
Stanley Gordon West has to be one of the best writers I’ve ever read work from. He takes something really simple and plan a makes it so beautiful and poetic to the point where it can bring someone who is made out of rock into tears. He writes about love, strength and hope, then changes your views on all of it.
I definitely recommend this book to everyone. It is one of the best books I have ever read in my lifetime. A teacher suggested it to me, and I figured I should read it, I didn’t know that it was going to be so good. I completely loved it!