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Blowers, Bubbles & Balls
Blowers, Bubbles & Balls breaks away from Henry Blofeld's more conventional journalistic style and is a selection of short stories and anecdotes about some of the more unusual experiences he has encountered throughout his career as a cricket commentator and writer. A light-hearted and lightweight string of anecdotes by international media gadfly, Henry 'Blofly' Blofeld, which has marginally more about wine and women than cricket. However, Blofeld does introduce a few episodes such as his odyssey to the Sydney Hill to meet the owners of the 'Bespectacled Henry Blofly Stand' banner.His stories take the reader around the world and behind the scenes with the cricketing fraternity. From England to Australia, from South America to India and back to the West Indies, Henry tells of his much publicised run-in with Ian Botham, and frankly discusses his relationship with Dennis Lillee. These jolly, jaunty japes and tales are sometimes witty, sometimes racy, sometimes spicy, and occasionally incredulous, but never are they dull.
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Published December 18, 2017
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July 29, 2016
There are many great cricket books out there. This is definitely not one of them.
It's a reprint of a book he published in 1984 and is both very dated and poorly edited. Blowers and Wymer Publishing are selling people a pup with this book.
Worst of all, the stories aren't really witty, racy, or spicy and the whole book is rather dull. The chapters are a hotchpotch collection of rambling stories that are vaguely linked and in many cases of little interest. Is anyone in the slightest bit interested in, or amused by, Blowers talking about being downgraded to economy for a flight to Australia?
Blowers' "hilarious" night in a New York jail for having hit his girlfriend isn't funny and paints him in a poor light. Domestic violence may have been brushed off and laughed at for an Australian audience in the mid-1980s, but definitely doesn't wash now.
The editing is terrible. Words are incorrectly spelled. Brian Johnston seemingly still lives. The book is incoherent.
Thank goodness it is only 150 pages long.
Don't bother reading this.
It's a reprint of a book he published in 1984 and is both very dated and poorly edited. Blowers and Wymer Publishing are selling people a pup with this book.
Worst of all, the stories aren't really witty, racy, or spicy and the whole book is rather dull. The chapters are a hotchpotch collection of rambling stories that are vaguely linked and in many cases of little interest. Is anyone in the slightest bit interested in, or amused by, Blowers talking about being downgraded to economy for a flight to Australia?
Blowers' "hilarious" night in a New York jail for having hit his girlfriend isn't funny and paints him in a poor light. Domestic violence may have been brushed off and laughed at for an Australian audience in the mid-1980s, but definitely doesn't wash now.
The editing is terrible. Words are incorrectly spelled. Brian Johnston seemingly still lives. The book is incoherent.
Thank goodness it is only 150 pages long.
Don't bother reading this.
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