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PredatorHayds wrote: ↑31 Dec 2018, 11:55 If you had to recommend one book off your list Jim what would it be?

Shhhh wrote: ↑31 Dec 2018, 19:43

Tuan_Jim wrote: ↑31 Dec 2018, 19:38

Shhhh wrote: ↑29 Dec 2018, 19:04 Great list again mate an dhave gone through them and have only read a few I did think that there are some books that should be looked at

Journey man is a U.K. book one of the best I fink
Also I can’t remeber a title but there’s a book maybe 20 years old about the Manchester scene including Michael Gomez a very interesting book any1 read it?!?

Is that Journeyman as in the Michael Murray book?

No maybe I got the wrong title it was a book about U.K. journeyman and what they go through. An eye opener to any new Boxing fan

Shhhh wrote: ↑31 Dec 2018, 19:49

Tuan_Jim wrote: ↑31 Dec 2018, 19:47

Shhhh wrote: ↑31 Dec 2018, 19:43

No maybe I got the wrong title it was a book about U.K. journeyman and what they go through. An eye opener to any new Boxing fan

Ah, that sounds like the sort of thing I would enjoy. Murray released a book by the same title about 15 years ago. I don't recommend it.

Here ya go https://www.worldofbooks.com/en-gb/book ... gL96vD_BwE

orbtastic wrote: ↑14 Jan 2019, 07:43 I wanted a couple of boxing books to read whilst off over Christmas but for some reason most of them weren't available on prime so I went with what I could get delivered the same week.

A Ringside Affair: Boxing’s Last Golden Age - James Lawton. Has anyone read this? I had high hopes but it's written so badly I couldn't finish it. The reviews are glowing but I can't believe an actual newspaper reporter wrote the book, much less chief of sports writers. I had to re-read some paragraphs 3-4 times to actually get the point he was making. It has numerous factual errors too which made me wonder if someone cobbled it together from his reporting.

Dog Rounds: Death and Life in the Boxing Ring - Elliot Worsell. I quite enjoyed his Haye book so went in with no expectations bearing in mind the subject. Holy crap, the first chapter is a mess. Talk about abuse of commas. I almost didn't finish it but glad I did because the subsequent chapters don't have the same problems.

The Mad and the Bad: Boxing Tales of Mayhem, Menace and Murder - Thomas Myler. Much preferred this despite the fact it didn't really break much new ground it's written in such an engaging and entertaining way that it was enjoyable to read.

Going to read the Magee book next and the Kimball anthology. Also got a Marciano bio to read. I am in the middle of another couple of non boxing books though (boy on the shed, grunt, goldie's last autobio).

Has anyone read Duran's autobio? I read the biography (by the same guy who did Arguello's, can't remember his name, Christian Guidace I think). Does it shed any new light on anything or is it just the same stuff re-trod?

orbtastic wrote: ↑14 Jan 2019, 11:38 Elliot is a long-time poster on here, young lad (or was at the time he was pals with Haye). I expected his Haye book to be quite poor but it's actually pretty good, as bios go but he can't separate the self from the subject which I know is something you hate.

orbtastic wrote: ↑14 Jan 2019, 11:38I reckon I've got about 400 books on boxing in one form or another, so own/read most of your list, including the Tashen Ali book.

orbtastic wrote: ↑14 Jan 2019, 09:49 Glad it's not just me. I mean it's hardly "2 seconds from glory" in terms of impenetrable text

orbtastic wrote: ↑15 Jan 2019, 07:38 It's currently on a shelf staring at me, daring me to finish it.

When's your next book coming out? I really enjoyed the last (only?) one.

orbtastic wrote: ↑15 Jan 2019, 08:27 Shame, the shelves are not exactly packed with good boxing books.

If you had the time, who would you write about next?

orbtastic wrote: ↑15 Jan 2019, 08:16 Yeah, it's easily the worst boxing book I've ever read, or tried to. There's a thread on here about it, I think I may have started it.

It's gibberish. I would have said without knowing the author's situation that it was written by a complete mentalist with some sort of major psychiatric disorder.

The irony is that somewhere in that book is the genesis of an amazing story. That said I don't think any amount of proof reading or pruning can get to it.

Apropos Meldrick, did you know his twin brother is called Eldrick?

edit: here's the thread - viewtopic.php?f=9&t=134983&hilit=custard