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« on: Tuesday, August 30, 2011, 10:10:42 » |
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Ive just read the barry mcguigan biog, it was fantastic.
Can anyone recommend any good sporting biographies for me to read next.
Thanks .....
Mark
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« Reply #2 on: Tuesday, August 30, 2011, 11:36:09 » |
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Try Lance Armstrong's "It Not About the Bike" - it amazing to see what he went through.
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« Reply #3 on: Tuesday, August 30, 2011, 13:02:00 » |
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Lou Macari's is a good read also Stuart Pearce's book is quite good. But i have just got into crime thrillers and am really enjoying James Patterson & Dean Kuntz
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« Reply #4 on: Tuesday, August 30, 2011, 14:10:20 » |
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"Shelias, Wogs and Poofters" gets my vote for best biography title. Haven't read it, its lost somewhere in a box for a house move 5 years ago
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« Reply #5 on: Tuesday, August 30, 2011, 14:14:45 » |
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For Cricket fans, I'd recommend Richie Benaud's or Henry Blofeld's autobiographies.
I'd definitely NOT recommend Ron Atkinson, Jack Nicklaus or Matthew Pinsent's efforts - I found them tedious.
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Paolo Di Canio, it's Paolo Di Canio
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« Reply #6 on: Tuesday, August 30, 2011, 14:23:49 » |
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As a non-cricket fan I quite enjoyed Penguins Stopped Play (Harry Thompson). Its not a biography as such. Its more following a cricket team around the world.
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« Reply #7 on: Tuesday, August 30, 2011, 14:27:23 » |
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As a non-cricket fan I quite enjoyed Penguins Stopped Play (Harry Thompson). Its not a biography as such. Its more following a cricket team around the world.
I was thinking of putting that on myself.Great read, would thoroughly recommend it to anyone even if they don't like cricket. |
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« Reply #8 on: Tuesday, August 30, 2011, 14:33:17 » |
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I was thinking of putting that on myself.Great read, would thoroughly recommend it to anyone even if they don't like cricket.
Have you read either of Marcus Berkmann's books on the same team? Are they of a similar style and standard? |
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« Reply #9 on: Tuesday, August 30, 2011, 14:39:35 » |
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Have you read either of Marcus Berkmann's books on the same team? Are they of a similar style and standard?
No, I haven't, might just get them from the local library(if it hasn't been closed yet!)give them a read. |
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« Reply #10 on: Tuesday, August 30, 2011, 15:01:10 » |
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Away from sport i recently read the second autobiography of Chris Evans, it was really good and he didn't glide over some of the bad parts of his life or his alcoholism he goes into in detail.
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« Reply #11 on: Tuesday, August 30, 2011, 15:15:53 » |
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Reading Bret Hart's autobiography. Absolutely brilliant so far.
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« Reply #12 on: Tuesday, August 30, 2011, 16:10:00 » |
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Sacred and Moonlight Mile by Dennis Lehane,Into The Blue by Robert Goddard are books I've recently read and enjoyed.
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« Reply #13 on: Tuesday, August 30, 2011, 16:23:05 » |
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Sarum..by Dennis Rutherford.....a long book but a brilliant history of the City of Salisbury,with 500 years of trades people and a fictional story that is intermingled with the building of the great Salisbury Cathedral that took hundreds of years to build.....loved it.
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« Reply #14 on: Tuesday, August 30, 2011, 16:29:06 » |
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Sarum..by Dennis Rutherford.....a long book but a brilliant history of the City of Salisbury,with 500 years of trades people and a fictional story that is intermingled with the building of the great Salisbury Cathedral that took hundreds of years to build.....loved it.
That sounds like a great sporting biography  |
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