Hitting Back: The Autobiography
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 | Product Details: Hardcover 304 pages Release Date: 05 June 2008 Publisher: Century ISBN: 1846051673 Rating:   Sales Rank: 22949 | | Look for similar books by subject:
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| | Customer Reviews: Andy's Achievements (18 December 2008)Since this book was published earlier this year Andy has achieved alot. The turning point being when he came back from 2 sets down to beat Gasquet at Wimbledon, he has also beaten Nadal, Djokovic and Federer, reached the final of the US Open and is now number 4 in the world. At 21 that is some achievement especially over the last few months. Yes I am an Andy Murray fan and am proud to be so. Lets get behind our young sports people in what ever sport and encourage them. Any achievement is a positive, lets stop being so negative. Andy is a young lad, like all of us at that age he has sometimes had to learn the hard way. Lets give him a chance and get behind him in 2009. I found his book an insight in to the world of tennis. Unfit for purpose (02 July 2008)Purpose - potential use as toilet paper. Conclusion - unfit for purpose. Who will rid us of this turgid, turbulent, non-achieving egotist? Diary of a foetus-Bananas are not the only fruit (18 June 2008)There has been some beastliness evident by a certain respondent to other respondents negative reviews regarding the sporting God Adam Murray. I can assure you that I have read Adams book cover to cover and indeed have followed Adam all around the world watching his wonderful table tennis tournaments so would politely ask you in advance to refrain from questioning my credentials and knowledge in this area. I swear on Margaret Thatchers life this is the truth. Is this another example of the insipid 'celebrity' 'Hello' magazine, 'big brother' pernicious treadmill which dictates if you have been on television for more than five minutes you are, de facto, interesting enough to the non-achievers that compose the rest of society to detail your exploits in book form for all to read? This guy is 21 years of age! Nelson Mandela was in prison for longer than that; he had his autobiography published when in his 70's after living a life worth reading about! Here is a genuine quote from Adam Murrays book: 'To be honest, I think bananas are pathetic fruit, they don't look great for a start. They're not straight and I don't like the black bit at the bottom. I'm more a peaches and plums sort of guy....' What the hell is that? You have to be extremely conceited and have a very self inflated view of yourself to write an autobiography at 21 after playing a few rounds of table tennis. Wayne Rooney has a five book deal, yes FIVE, who buys these exercises in tittle-tattle? What an absolute waste of beautiful trees that sustain wildlife and enhance our living environment to have them cut down because a greedy pointless jumped up little berk is so self-important to believe that his life and achievements are worthy of documenting for the nation. Before I receive the standard 'he has achieved more in 21 years than you will in a lifetime' nonsense I will have you know that just this morning I delivered a litter of kittens, performed the Heimlich Manoeuvre on a passing nun who choked on a holy wafer and discovered the cure for male pattern baldness. I shan't waste another moment on this nonsense of a book. I saw an extract of a programme about Louis Armstrong when he came to England quite a few years ago. A young boy at the airport played his trumpet for Louis and later wrote off a letter to him thanking him for listening; Louis Armstrong wrote a nice letter back thanking him for his letter and expressing how much he had enjoyed his trumpet playing. What a very nice un-conceited man he was, a great loss to those who knew him and for the contribution he has made to the world via genuine talent and a lifetime of achievement. I see trees of green........ red roses too I watch 'em bloom..... for me and for you And I think to myself.... what a wonderful world. I see skies of blue..... clouds of white Bright blessed days....warm sacred nights And I think to myself .....what a wonderful world. The colors of a rainbow.....so pretty ..in the sky Are there on the faces.....of people ..going by I see friends shaking hands.....sayin'.. how do you do They're really sayin'......I love you. I hear babies cry...... I watch them grow They'll learn much more.....than I'll never know And I think to myself .....what a wonderful world Stick to playing tennis (10 June 2008)This is the sort of petty, point-scoring exercise which gives sports books a bad name. Think of Ashley Cole's dismal effort to explain his move from Arsenal to Chelsea and you will have some notion of the petulant tone which pours forth from Murray, Young Misery Guts. It's difficult to know what is worse; the lecturing manner in which he berates other British players for being "lazy" and then wriggled out of sticking to his guns when interviewed by Jonathan Ross last week; or the padding out of his "life" story at 21 with a section on the Dunblane tragedy, when he himself admits he was too young to recall what happened. Murray should do himself and everybody else a favour, study the video of Rafael Nadal's destruction of Roger Federer at Roland Garros and realise the improvements he will have to make in his game to reach similar heights. Until then, he should spare us his sententious claptrap! Why? (10 June 2008)Why on earth has Andy Murray had his autobiography published? He is only 21, there isn't anything there to fill more than forty pages. Also,he has not achieved more in tennis than Tim Henman .Has he made four semi finals at Wimbledon? No. Has he made the semi finals of the French Open? No.Has he won 11 titles yet? No. Doing this and shooting your mouth off at his age when you have nothing of interest to say to anyone is a pointless exercise. He also has to be the most miserable tennis player I've seen in years. Do yourself a favour Andy. Concentrate on your tennis and grow up. | |
