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Will make a good gift for a cricket fan.
Review date: 2009-08-21 Rating: 8 out of 10
I bought this for my father-in-law, who's a big cricket fan. Haven't given it to him yet, but it looks a good read.
Superlative for 40-somethings of a certain disposition
Review date: 2009-08-20 Rating: 10 out of 10
What a book! Given to me by my very astute wife for my 47th birthday this month (August 09) I could not put it down. If you're a cricket fan born in the early 60s then this is the book for you. Buy it - now.
Buy everything else by Berkmann, but this was disappointing.
Review date: 2009-08-14 Rating: 4 out of 10
Anyone who loves cricket, particularly the lower levels of amateur cricket, should read Rain Men: Madness of Cricket, an absolutely hilarious book that is half about participating in incompetent village cricket, and half about supporting incompetent England cricketers through the tough years. The follow-up, Zimmer Men (about carrying on playing village cricket despite being over forty and still hopeless), is very nearly as funny, as is Brain Men (about the peculiar English phenonmenon that is the pub quiz, so nothing to do with cricket but still excellent).
This, however, feels like it was distilled in a library out of a load of old Wisden reports by a panicked 6th-former the night before a deadline. It has little of the personal insight and wit of the other books, perhaps because he tried to include too many series, and so ran out of space to embellish. It's not much better than the majority of ghost-written sports-books-by-numbers that are written to cash in on a big event. I find it hard to imagine Berkmann stooping to those levels, but maybe he'd just had a really big gas bill.
Product Details/Specifications
Authors:
Marcus Berkmann
Recording label: Abacus
Manufacturer: Abacus
EAN: 9780349122175
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0349122172
Number of pages: 352
Publication date: 2010-05-06
Language: English (Original Language)
Language: English (Published)
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