Both Barrels from Brazil: My War Against the Numpties |
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Alan Brazil, Mike Parry
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Pages: 272 (Paperback)
ISBN: 1905156448
Pub: Highdown
Pub date: 2008-06-02
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 41382
Reader Reviews:
Save your money and buy the Daily Mail (0/0 people found this helpful)
This book reads like an editorial in the Daily Mail.Right wing rantings some which are bordering on racism..As usual his partner in crime Mike Parry is the author.The standard of writing is very poor.A two year old could have wrote it.C"mon Brazil put your glass down and write a book by yourself,not that idiot Parry and leave the politics to someone who knows what they are talking about
A let down (1/1 people found this helpful)
Their first book was passable but this is pass-byable. Little or no soccer content and politics is done so much better by other people.Seems like Alan Brazil feels he has the answers to society's problems and I should imagine that when he and Mike Parry get together in the wee small hours they persuade each other of their mutual genius. Poor stuff but it may well have an audience with white van man much as their radio programmes do.
Random Ranting (2/2 people found this helpful)
Well, I really enjoyed "There's an awful lot of bubbly in Brazil" - it was a fun autobiography packed with stories and anecdotes, often involving drink and mayhem. A recommended read.
But this....
I hope I have established I like Brazil and loved the first book, which may be why I was so disappointed with this one. This is just a series of rants that might appeal to certain Daily Mail readers, but neither educate or entertain. Jeremy Clarkson does this stuff but with wit and irony, but this is not what Alan Brazil does well. Yes there are some anecdotes, but having him describe kicking people in the face in bus top fights in his youth do not hit the right note. Neither is he apologetic, preferring to focus on the "it made me the man I am today" line. This was neither comfortable nor entertaining and kind of sums up the book.
It was a struggle to get through this, I kept going in the hope that there might be a good story around the corner, but most of the time, there wasn't. A real shame.
Self opinionated codswallop! (3/3 people found this helpful)
This really is a poor read. ill thought out 'opinions' with nothing to back them up for chapter after chapter.
Avoid at all costs
The Laurel & Hardy of Radio (0/4 people found this helpful)
A brilliant book about the former footballer and tabloid freelance journalist.
They are the Laurel & Hardy of Talksport radio. An odd couple who rule the airwaves.
Brazil is Scottish, Parry is Welsh - but it works.
Brazil is a babe magnet and Parry is a gay icon - but it works.
Brazil played for Ipswich and Scotland and Parry worked as a glorified teaboy for Garry Bushell & Piers Morgan at The Sun but together they are the best double act since Morecambe & Wise.
Buy this book and have a good laugh. This book is the best biog I have read since Bushell Off The Box by Garry Johnson.
And Brazil & Parry are the Ant And Dec of shock Jock radio.
Brilliant book.
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