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Carregando... Rain Men: Madness of Cricketde Marcus Berkmann
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Marcus Berkmann is a hugely funny writer, though much of the humour in this book is of the 'celebrating crapness' school that flourished in the 1990s. Despite this, it is a light, enjoyable read for the cricket fan. ( ) Captain Scott XI. Love what it says on the back of the book - it's a great description: Marcus Berkmann illuminates the obsessions and disappointments that the dedicated fan and pathologically hopeful clubman suffers year after year - the ritual humiliation of England's middle order, the partially sighted umpires, the batting average that reads more like a shoe size... A pleasant enough stroll through Berkmann's cricket drenched brain. A cricket tragic, Berkmann plays cricket almost as badly as I did in my heyday and watches and follows it obsessively. Beyond letting us know that he played for the same team as Hugh Grant, Berkmann tells us of the fairly low level team he played for, of his batting average, of Hugh Grant getting annoyed at an awards night and leaving early, of his late night vigils watching Ashes matches from Australia on tv, and similar. Sometimes it doesn't quite flow but it's amiable enough for a pleasant read. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
There are many cricket books, and they are all the same. 'Don't Tell Goochie', autobiographical insights of nights on the tiles in Delhi with Lambie and the boys; 'Fruit cake days', a celebrated humourist recalls 'ball' - related banter of yore; and Wisden, a deadly weapon when combined with a thermos flask. Rain Men is different. Like the moment the genius of Richie Benaud first revealed itself to you, it is a cricketing epiphany, a landmark in the literature of the game. Shining the light meter of reason into cricket's incomparable madness, Marcus Berkmann illuminates all the obsessions and disappointments that the dedicated fan and pathologically hopeful clubman suffers year after year - the ritual humiliation of England's middle order, the partially-sighted umpires, the battling average that reads more like a shoe size. As satisfying as a perfectly timed cover drive, and rather easier to come by, Rain Men offers essential justification for anyone who has ever run a team-mate out on purpose or secretly blubbed at a video of Botham's Ashes. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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