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** 'Very perceptive, and very funny' LITERARY REVIEW ** 'The book oozes a laddish solidarity... Berkmann's wit lays bare the painful vicissitudes of hoping for English success' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY ** 'Did Berkmann waste his time watching all those Ashes games? This lovely book is proof he did not' DAILY MAIL ** 'By far the best gentle, bleakly comic take on the series' OBSERVER ** "Both informative and terrifically funny, Berkmann has written what may be the cricket book of the summer' WBQ
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The Ashes may be the longest and fiercest sporting soap opera the world has known. The anticipation is always intense, expectations are high and, for England fans, disappointment is almost inevitable, as we usually lose. But it's a drug we can never kick. How have we got into this state? Can we ever break free? Marcus Berkmann knows he can't and has stopped even trying. ASHES TO ASHES is the first emotional history of the contest, shamelessly eschewing balance and objectivity to give the punter's view of every series since 1972. This new edition updates the tale to the victorious 2009 series, while remaining brutally realistic about our chances in 2010 and beyond ...
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Having been won over by Berkmann's last two cricket books (written for cricket enthusiasts and layman alike, and laugh out loud funny in many places), I was itching to read this with the 2009 Ashes looming. However, this book is very different, covering the Ashes Tests from 1972 til 2007 is great detail. Informative, yes, but rather dry and few laughs to be found. For the newcomer to MB's work, try Rain Men then Zimmermen. Only if you want to revise or relive memories of 'recent' Ashes Tests, should you plump for this.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
What a book! Given to me by my very astute wife for my 47th birthday this month (August 09) I could not put it down. If you're a cricket fan born in the early 60s then this is the book for you. Buy it - now.
10 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Anyone who loves cricket, particularly the lower levels of amateur cricket, should read Rain Men: Madness of Cricket, an absolutely hilarious book that is half about participating in incompetent village cricket, and half about supporting incompetent England cricketers through the tough years. The follow-up, Zimmer Men (about carrying on playing village cricket despite being over forty and still hopeless), is very nearly as funny, as is Brain Men (about the peculiar English phenonmenon that is the pub quiz, so nothing to do with cricket but still excellent).
This, however, feels like it was distilled in a library out of a load of old Wisden reports by a panicked 6th-former the night before a deadline. It has little of the personal insight and wit of the other books, perhaps because he tried to include too many series, and so ran out of space to embellish. It's not much better than the majority of ghost-written sports-books-by-numbers that are written to cash in on a big event. I find it hard to imagine Berkmann stooping to those levels, but maybe he'd just had a really big gas bill.
This, however, feels like it was distilled in a library out of a load of old Wisden reports by a panicked 6th-former the night before a deadline. It has little of the personal insight and wit of the other books, perhaps because he tried to include too many series, and so ran out of space to embellish. It's not much better than the majority of ghost-written sports-books-by-numbers that are written to cash in on a big event. I find it hard to imagine Berkmann stooping to those levels, but maybe he'd just had a really big gas bill.
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Marcus Misses The Mark
Having thoroughly enjoyed MB's previous literary outings, I was expecting big things from Ashes to Ashes. Suffice to say it was about as interesting as a Tavare century. Read more
Published 24 days ago by Cooley
Ashes to Ashes
A present for my brother, who was very pleased with it. He loves sport and chose it himself. Found it really interesting.
Published 6 months ago by Mrs. J. E. Pritchard
poor and uninvolving
It's pretty ambitious to try and cram 35 years of Ashes tests into a single volume and this book fails miserably to achieve it's aim. Read more
Published 9 months ago by An avid reader
Not what i was expecting, but still a good read
I have hugely enjoyed all of Marcus Berkmann's previous cricketing books, this was the main reason for choosing this book. Read more
Published 16 months ago by NAC6562
Will make a good gift for a cricket fan.
I bought this for my father-in-law, who's a big cricket fan. Haven't given it to him yet, but it looks a good read.
Published on 21 Aug 2009 by Joanie
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