what book you reading at the moment? (incl poll)

[Great-Bit-O-Stuff]

WTF? He wrote it himself?

I just checked there. It's an autobiography so yes, he wrote it himself.

 

[doppellanger]

I just checked there. It's an autobiography so yes, he wrote it himself.

Footballers (and many others) usually use ghostwriters. Michael Owen admitted he hadn't read his own autobiography.

 

[Great-Bit-O-Stuff]

Footballers (and many others) usually use ghostwriters. Michael Owen admitted he hadn't read his own autobiography.

I thought of that but the writing isn't professionally done. It's a basic tale of his life. Maybe it was a ghost writer but he could have found someone better

 

[Blue Jasmin]

I thought of that but the writing isn't professionally done. It's a basic tale of his life. Maybe it was a ghost writer but he could have found someone better

A book like that wouldn't be aimed at a particularly literate audience, it has to be pitched at a low level to sell.

All these sporting autobiographies are ghost written.

 

[Drucker]

Footballers (and many others) usually use ghostwriters. Michael Owen admitted he hadn't read his own autobiography.

Maybe he used a ghost reader

 

[Drucker]

I thought of that but the writing isn't professionally done. It's a basic tale of his life. Maybe it was a ghost writer but he could have found someone better

If it was in crayon then he definitely wrote it himself.

 

[AlBidet]

Anybody read any of Greedy's books? I just can't seem to find any online, looking under "self-help" and "Donald Trump".

 

[Donald Trump]

Some serious snobbery towards sports books and biographies of sports stars here. Some of the best books I've ever read have been biographies.

Garrincha by Ruy Castro and A Strange Kind of Glory by Eamon Dunphy are magnificent.

Mick Foley the wrestler wrote two of his own biographies and they were brilliant reads too.

 

[doppellanger]

Some serious snobbery towards sports books and biographies of sports stars here. Some of the best books I've ever read have been biographies.

Garrincha by Ruy Castro and A Strange Kind of Glory by Eamon Dunphy are magnificent.

Mick Foley the wrestler wrote two of his own biographies and they were brilliant reads too.

First 'proper book' I ever read was a biography of Pelé when I was about 7 and it was brilliant.

 

[RebelBOK]

With two smallies, work and everything else I find it impossible to read. If I try to read two pages before bed my mind will either have wandered by the end of the first paragraph and I'll have no idea was I just read and have to start again or I'll be asleep.

I drive a lot with work though so started listening to audiobooks a few years ago and it was a game changer.
I just counted there and I have listened to 79 audiobooks in the last three years!
Jesus I didn't realise it was that much.

Some recent highlights are Rob Delaney's A Heart that Works (be warned though if you have kids it will wreck you), The Storyteller by Dave Grohl and The Irrational Ape by David Robert Grimes.


I plan to get back to reading rather than listening when time permits.