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Re: My critique of Hattons autobiography
Posted: 23 Jan 2014, 10:50
by mickey1975
TopGun wrote:big lennox wrote:David Haye's book, written by Elliot Worsell, is excellent. Several leagues above the normal autobiography/biography. It is insightful, atmoshperic and well written
I read that one too. That was better and more insightful and it wasn't even an autobiography. That gave me more insight and little things I didn't know about Haye and training camps than Hatton's and his was written by himself. I rest my case.
Hatton had a sort of training camp diary for the Collazo fight written and published. It was better than both autobiographies he has managed.
Re: My critique of Hattons autobiography
Posted: 23 Jan 2014, 21:03
by veriton
ra2006 wrote:I was back in the UK/Europe over xmas and picked up a few Autobiogs to read over the festive period.
These were in order of reading
- Alex Ferguson (OK got taken in by the hype, not bad though)
- David Millar riding through the darkness. (Even if you are not a cycling fan it is a bloodly good read)
- Ricky book.
I was hugely disapointed as I had read the David Millar one before which was execellent, well written and it was really warts and all regarding his doping history and really went into how he ended up in that dark place. This was stuff he had never gone into detail during his interviews was in this book, he opens up and really bares his soul.
Rickys book was nothing really groundbreaking, infact all the stuff in there I could have googled, there was nothing that insightful, he waffles on with a predictable outcome on his thoughts. I felt a little bit robbed!!
I know how you feel. I recently got two books at the same time, one was called "Tomorrow You Die" and was written by a POW who was captured by the Japanese in WW2 and sent to labour camps, the other was Johnny Nelson's autobiog!
I read the POW one first, it was a beautiful yet harrowing tale of the human spirit and I almost cried at the end when he arrived back home in Glasgow (I was commuting to work on the train so this was a bit awkward).
Next up was Nelson's tome and it all seemed so silly and insignificant (he felt lonely while sparring in Germany, diddums, the other guy was starved tortured daily and never complained once!). Yet ultimately I enjoyed Nelson's book too. His honest description of the De Leon debacle made me laugh out loud...in fact anyone travelling to work at the same time as me every day must think im a nut!