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Post by FL on Sept 18, 2016 14:39:39 GMT
Daniel Bryan's book was sick. Read it by the pool within the second day haha.
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Post by The Quito Diet on Sept 22, 2016 21:17:35 GMT
Aye I've asked for that for my birthday along with Ian Wright's new book and that Jon Smith book on football agents.
Just finished that "The Nowhere Men" book about football scouts, ridiculous the way many of them have been simply shafted out in favour of buying players based on OPTA stats or agent partnerships. So many of them who've done it for their entire lives now working purely on mileage yet putting in multiple 2000+ word reports on a weekly basis just to keep themselves seen and active.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2016 22:12:34 GMT
was struggling through re=reading Catcher in the Rye when i picked up Andre Agassi's book, great read, highly recommended.
Will probably pick up Joey Barton's book tomorrow
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Post by Mycon on Sept 23, 2016 18:19:35 GMT
was struggling through re=reading Catcher in the Rye when i picked up Andre Agassi's book, great read, highly recommended. Will probably pick up Joey Barton's book tomorrow Funny enough I'm just after finishing Agassi's book myself a few days ago. Same as you was struggling with a few books then went for it and read it pretty quickly. Just keeps you reading in a way few autobiographies do.
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Post by The Quito Diet on Oct 4, 2016 17:30:22 GMT
Money: The Life and Fast Times of Floyd Mayweather Jr - Tris Dixon.
Very detailed book following his career all the way up through the amateurs right past the Berto fight. Didn't realise just how many rumours there were with regards to him doping between fights too, definitely raises some questions.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2016 20:47:52 GMT
Will probably pick up Joey Barton's book tomorrow Very poor altogether
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Post by The Quito Diet on Oct 14, 2016 15:51:43 GMT
Daniel Bryan's book was sick. Read it by the pool within the second day haha. Good shout, it was indeed a good read. Impossible not to get hurt right in the feels with that last bit too.
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Post by daveyposhboy on Nov 12, 2016 18:43:41 GMT
The man who mistook his wife for a hat is absolutely fascinating and of the little I've read of it, I couldn't recommend it enough
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Post by you give me rrrroad rrrrage on Nov 12, 2016 20:36:30 GMT
That sounds too funny
Anyways, for anyone who liked A Brief History of Seven Killings I just finished John Crow's Devil and that was some real shit, especially the ending.
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Post by daveyposhboy on Mar 16, 2017 20:42:46 GMT
Lincoln in the Bardo is worth all of the hype it has received and so much more. Can't wait to listen to it on audiobook, Nick Offerman alone may make it the greatest AB ever recorded
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Post by ChappyHova on Mar 17, 2017 8:51:09 GMT
I've started listening to audiobooks recently at work, had been thinking about it for a while but I kept thinking it was almost cheating lol.
Almost finished listening to Martin Luther Kings autobiography.
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Post by daveyposhboy on Mar 17, 2017 12:35:12 GMT
I don't think I could listen to them unless the author themselves were reading it or involved in it. Like Stephen Fry reads his own, and George Saunders will voice a main character in LITB.
Can't be seen as cheating though, some people are too busy to read and audio books offer a valuable avenue into fiction/non fiction that otherwise would be unafforded
Crack on ser chapsworth
Side note-Ernest Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea" is on YouTube as read by Charlton Heston and it's probably the smoothest recording of a book ever if you ever get a random inclination to czech it out.
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Post by The Quito Diet on Apr 3, 2017 20:09:31 GMT
Only just finished The Spanish Holocaust, basically detailing the build up and culmination of the Spanish Civil War.
Jesus fucking Christ that was a tough read. Long old slog and there's only so much you can read of gang rape and mutilation before you need to put the book down for a bit. I'm hoping to try and find a book that details what Spain was like during Franco's reign because this stops just as the war finishes and after all that went on I'm baffled that they just continued with him in charge for so long with relative business as usual.
Also shows a disgusting amount of paralells to today's world, with the tribal spread of hyperbole, hysteria and outright lies to establish paranoia and justify over reactions.
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Post by The Quito Diet on Apr 15, 2017 19:55:55 GMT
Finished "Federer". Pretty self explanatory. Details his entire career quite well, goes some way into explaining his character, although I feel it doesn't go far enough in explaining the negatives of his character, especially when it comes to Wawrinka. Didn't realise just how much acrimony they've had between them.
Moving on to Joe Calzaghe's autobiography next.
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Post by The Quito Diet on Apr 22, 2017 21:35:29 GMT
Finished the Calzaghe "No Ordinary Joe" book this week, quick read. Bit naff really, didn't realise how old it was though (and tbf it was a gift), think it finishes pre-Kessler, so the ending of the book is him slating the BBC SPOTY as being worthless (the year before he won it and praised it massively) and having no interest whatsoever in a fight against Roy Jones Jnr because he's past it and it would prove nothing (the year before he fought him and won).
But yeah, bit similar to Frochs book in that it's a bit of a repetitive history of their fights without too much interesting detail to go along with it.
Think I'm going with a book on Cruyff next.
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