Question What are you reading?

[Uncle Leo]

Why anyone in their right mind would have any interest at all in cricket(apart from perhaps a passing interest in how Essex are doing)is really beyond me.Boring.:zzzzz:

Thanks for that.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Just started Bad Science by Ben Goldacre!

Excellent book sir!

 

[sufc-gazza]

Excellent book sir!

Sir? you assume!

 

[MK Shrimper]

Sir? you assume!

Lol I do. Sorry madam!

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

But you could have read this lot on your ipad, saved them on a computer and think of the space you would save, suitable for maybe a 2 metre projector screen, an HD Projector and a banging sound system.

I'm indifferent to 2m projector screens. Think of a shelve of Wisdens, with all those yellow dustcovers, as more like a work of art adorning a wall.

How many Wisdens do you have? I started getting them in 2000 and whilst it's hardly a huge collection, they do look lovely on the shelf.

I liked that story from a year or so ago about a woman who was clearing out the loft of a recently deceased relative when she found a load of old cricket books. She nearly threw them out, but someone else spotted what she'd unearthed and it turned out it was a collection of dozens of Wisdens worth thousands of pounds.

I think my first will be from about 1997, but I've got a few gaps in those early years. I can't tell you which ones though as they are at my parents; I've only got them from about 2003 at mine. That still fills a shelf.

I've given up on the Rothmans.

Why anyone in their right mind would have any interest at all in cricket(apart from perhaps a passing interest in how Essex are doing)is really beyond me.Boring.:zzzzz:

Unfortunately the game is apparently too complex for some lesser minds to comprehend. Their loss.

I do admire your courage in slagging off cricket in a football forum's literary thread. I'm intrigued as to where this is going: with all apologies to our own Slipperduke, where are football's Carduses and Jameses? Cass Pennant is no John Arlott; Jamie Carragher is no Kumar Sangakkara. Football with all its coverage, all the thousands of books published on the subject has produced very little worth reading, particularly in the UK.

 

[sufc-gazza]

Lol I do. Sorry madam!

Forgiven ;)

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Unfortunately the game is apparently too complex for some lesser minds to comprehend. Their loss.

Don't think so.:smile:

I do admire your courage in slagging off cricket in a football forum's literary thread. I'm intrigued as to where this is going: with all apologies to our own Slipperduke, where are football's Carduses and Jameses? Cass Pennant is no John Arlott; Jamie Carragher is no Kumar Sangakkara. Football with all its coverage, all the thousands of books published on the subject has produced very little worth reading, particularly in the UK.

Brian Glanville and David Lacey for a start.
Hugh McIlvanney too.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Thanks for that.

You're welcome.Just my opinion that's all.

 

[canveyshrimper]

Brian Glanville and David Lacey for a start.
Hugh McIlvanney too.

I'll agree that Hugh McIlvanney is pretty good.

But YB is absolutely spot on in his assertion about cricket writers. Cricket may seem boring to some and possibly those that cannot grasp the subtlties and nuances of the game. Cardus, James, Arlott (before the drink got him), Thomson, Ashley-Cooper, Jack Fingleton, the doyen of all current broadcasters Richie Benaud. Also former players such as Pringle & Fraser have converted well from the dressing room to the press box.

 

[EastStandBlue]

I'll agree that Hugh McIlvanney is pretty good.

But YB is absolutely spot on in his assertion about cricket writers. Cricket may seem boring to some and possibly those that cannot grasp the subtlties and nuances of the game. Cardus, James, Arlott (before the drink got him), Thomson, Ashley-Cooper, Jack Fingleton, the doyen of all current broadcasters Richie Benaud. Also former players such as Pringle & Fraser have converted well from the dressing room to the press box.

We could be in luck, though... The FA are preparing to push more ex-internationals into coaching by sidetracking them into the set-ups of academies, rather than onto the box to become a pundit of Danny Murphy mundaneness. This might just mean instead of the likes of Shearer, Townsend and Desailly giving you their insight, you'll have actual journalists for a change.

Unfortunately, this also means that people like Jamie Carragher will become responsible for the football of the future. Which is a thought far too terrifying for me to contemplate at this time of year.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

We could be in luck, though... The FA are preparing to push more ex-internationals into coaching by sidetracking them into the set-ups of academies, rather than onto the box to become a pundit of Danny Murphy mundaneness. This might just mean instead of the likes of Shearer, Townsend and Desailly giving you their insight, you'll have actual journalists for a change.
Unfortunately, this also means that people like Jamie Carragher will become responsible for the football of the future. Which is a thought far too terrifying for me to contemplate at this time of year.

Personally,I'd much rather hear some former footballer eg Stan or Paul Clark talking about the game than any journo-apart from the ones I mentioned.FWIW I think Andy Townsend is quite an interesting commentator on the game.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

ILL Fares the Land

Just to get back on track, I'm currently reading Tony Judt's Ill Fares the Land.A good Xmas book, since it details exactly what is profoundly wrong with the way we live today ie in terms of inequality of income etc
There's a nice quotation from Sir Crusty's hero Adam Smith:"No society can surely be flourishing and happy,of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable."
Doubt if it'll be on Cameron or Clegg's Xmas reading list.:grinch:

 

[canveyshrimper]

Just to get back on track, I'm currently reading Tony Judt's Ill Fares the Land.A good Xmas book, since it details exactly what is profoundly wrong with the way we live today ie in terms of inequality of income etc
There's a nice quotation from Sir Crusty's hero Adam Smith:"No society can surely be flourishing and happy,of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable."
Doubt if it'll be on Cameron or Clegg's Xmas reading list.:grinch:

Nor for that matter Moribund jr.

Funny really since 1945 we've had almost 30 years of Labour administrations and we still have "inequality of income etc" funny that.:nope:

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Nor for that matter Moribund jr.

Funny really since 1945 we've had almost 30 years of Labour administrations and we still have "inequality of income etc" funny that.:nope:

You're repeating yourself in the same sentence, Harry.Must be getting old.Merry Xmas.:party:

 

[canveyshrimper]

You're repeating yourself in the same sentence, Harry.Must be getting old.Merry Xmas.:party:

The affluence of incohol is kicking in. Merry Christmas Phil. :tree 1:

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Who are we...

...and should it matter in the 21st Century? by Gary Younge.A series of essays and some reprinted articles on what it means to call yourself British in the 21st Century.
Excellent stuff.

 

[Jedi Shrimper]

Still reading Visions of Cody by Kerouac, but went along to Rayleigh library's booksale on NY Day and got 5 books for £2.15, they were...
Douglas Adams - The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy
Stuart Maconie - Pies & Prejudice
Billy Bragg - The Progressive Patriot
The Rough Guide To Iceland
350 Miles: An Essex Journey (about the essex coastline)

That's what I call a happy new year!

 

[MK Shrimper]

Reading Stephen Fry's autobiography (the Uni years as I've not read Moab). Long words, lots of waffle, but thoroughly entertaining.

 

[Davros]

Im currently reading (well am nearly finished) Russel Brand 'My Booky Wook 2'... basically, he's shagged lots of people... nonetheless, the style of writing is excellent.

Next on my list (or more apptly on my reading shelf) is Ben Collins - 'The Man in the White Suit'.

 

[Napster]

Just read Chris Evans' autobiog. Enjoyable enough. Now reading a good Scandinavian crime book.