Book Reviews

This section will provide two main uses: reviews and excerpts. While the review will help the reader decide if the book is worth buying, the excerpt will give those sections in the book that could prove useful to the player. No restrictions on the sport or the date of publishing -- we reckon all sports and all information on sports could prove useful. If you have any old sports book, do send a review or lend it for a while. Also, I wonder if it would be a good idea to include non-sports books as well. There's no harm in keeping our horizons wide... and since players have very little time to catch up on the latest books, this might help them choose. So for the time being, we will include books from other disciplines as well.

The Great Shark Hunt by Hunter S. Thompson (click to read review)

Hunter's style was a brazen first-person approach, wherein he walks into a story and makes it revolve around him. Every story is a Confrontation betweeen him and his subject... he called this style "Gonzo"... I find his writings strangely humanistic, despite their excesses...

It's Not About the Bike by Lance Armstrong (click to read review)

Someone who can survive cancer and win the Tour is a freak; one in a billion. To that category, only one man belongs -- Lance Armstrong. It's Not About the Bike is his account of conquering cancer and cycling's most exacting event. It offers an insight into the mind of an all-time great, and the dynamics of the sport. Comparisons between his fight against cancer and his fight for the Tour de France are inevitable, and Armstrong explains how his cycling career helped him through the tumultous years of the disease.

Rahul Dravid -- A Biography by Vedam Jaishankar (click to read review)

In this bestselling biography, Jaishankar provides us some glimpses into the life of the most classical batsman of our times. We learn of the influences that went into making Dravid the sound technician he is. In an age when Test cricket has gone out of favour, and an aggressive, unconventional brand of the game has asserted itself, Dravid reminds one of an era gone by, the era of the classical cricketing shot, played in white flannels, and by those who equated sportsmanship with cricketing virtue.

The Age of Consent by George Monbiot (click to read review)

In The Age of Consent Monbiot not only examines the reasons for the current world order, but prescribes his vision for a just world. The book has its strengths and weaknesses, but at the end, when he says: "Well? What are you waiting for?" you feel tempted to take the challenge.