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Rain Men: Madness of Cricket (Paperback)

by Marcus Berkmann (Author)

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Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: Abacus; New edition edition (4 April 1996)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0349107424
ISBN-13: 978-0349107424
Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.6 x 2 cm

Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (19 customer reviews)

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'The Fever Pitch of cricket. Very funny.' Daily Telegraph 'Many thousands of cricketers will be able to identify with Marcus Berkmann's marvellous Rain Men. A masterpiece.' Sir Tim Rice 'A very funny book about some very sad men' Ian Hislop 'It captures splendidly the many dazzingling facets of the truly atrocious cricketer' Observer 'For addicts with a low batting average - i.e. most cricket lovers' Guardian

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There are many cricket books, and they are all the same. 'Don't Tell Goochie', autobiographical insights of nights on the tiles in Delhi with Lambie and the boys; 'Fruit cake days', a celebrated humourist recalls 'ball' - related banter of yore; and Wisden, a deadly weapon when combined with a thermos flask. Rain Men is different. Like the moment the genius of Richie Benaud first revealed itself to you, it is a cricketing epiphany, a landmark in the literature of the game. Shining the light meter of reason into cricket's incomparable madness, Marcus Berkmann illuminates all the obsessions and disappointments that the dedicated fan and pathologically hopeful clubman suffers year after year - the ritual humiliation of England's middle order, the partially-sighted umpires, the battling average that reads more like a shoe size. As satisfying as a perfectly timed cover drive, and rather easier to come by, Rain Men offers essential justification for anyone who has ever run a team-mate out on purpose or secretly blubbed at a video of Botham's Ashes.

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5.0 out of 5 stars So good I decided to emulate Berkmann, 11 Aug 2006

By	A. C. Metcalfe "AFGM CC" (UK) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

his book has compelled me to do two things I would never have done before:

1. write a review so evangelical I am about how funny this book is; and

2. set up my own hopeless cricket team with a bunch of rugby, football and hockey players from university with the same levels of success of the team described in these pages.

I can not imagine how anyone but the most hardened anti-sports fan can fail to enjoy this book. I find that there is a lot of drivel written about cricket which seems be in love with its own sense of history and literature but this is a real treat. Don't go and buy the next Beckham, Rooney or Lampard autobiography - read a book about proper sportsmen who really suffer for their love.

... and A Few Good Men Cricket Club are looking for a good fast bowler by the way...

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5.0 out of 5 stars If you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit join our club!, 29 Jul 2006

By	J. M. Griffiths - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I remember being escorted from the canteen at work whilst crippled up with laughter, the first time I read "Vintage Stuff" by Tom Sharpe. This was worse!
Having played at "The Gibbon" and some of the other grounds exquisitely described by Marcus Berkmann I woke up in intensive care and knew life was never going to be the same again. If an ex-cricketer does nothing else this winter, he should read this book.

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5.0 out of 5 stars I'M ONLY 14! AM I ALREADY THIS SAD!, 25 Sep 2003

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As I say I'm only 14 and I play Cricket. Everything in this is the absolute truth. When I first read Rain Men it made me cry and my stomach hurt with laughter over a hundred times. It is Hilariously funny and frightenly accurate, it worries me that I am that sad. I have already read it three times, It is surly the funniest Cricket book EVER!

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4.0 out of 5 stars A hit for six!
A really entertaining and amusing book about the trials and tribulations of a VERY amateur cricket team where each player has an exaggerated sense of his own ability and value to... Read more

Published 2 months ago by D. W. Miller

5.0 out of 5 stars am I Marcus Berkmann?
I thought only I was so cricket-obssessed that it has taken over my life. When I read Rain Men, this was the book I wished I had written and indeed could have written. Read more

Published 4 months ago by J. Lieberman

5.0 out of 5 stars An effortless drive to the boundary...
Quite simply the funniest laugh out loud book about cricket that I've ever read. It's also beautifully written in a conversational style that only a few can manage. Read more

Published 7 months ago by Andrew Morse

5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely hilarious! And true to life!
I came to this book after reading Harry Thompson's "When Penguins Stopped Play", encouraged by the comments in some reviews of that book (which I enjoyed) that this one would be... Read more

Published on 8 Oct 2007 by Dr. J. L. D. Pearse

5.0 out of 5 stars Drink-spillingly funny and honest to boot
For a humble Sunday second eleven wicketkeeper, reading this book is like gazing into a mirror and seeing reflected in it the richness and absurdity of the game I love and the... Read more

Published on 20 Sep 2006 by Pete UK

3.0 out of 5 stars Mildly amusing in the main, casualty-ward funny in others
To get the most out of this book you need to be familiar with the minutae of village cricket and the characters of bowlers,umpires and batsmen. Read more

Published on 11 Sep 2005 by Caterkiller

5.0 out of 5 stars Face Ache-ingly funny
It is a while since I read this and will have to pick it up again soon. It is simply fantastic. I read it on the beach and was chuckiling away and wiping tears from my aching face... Read more

Published on 17 Aug 2005

5.0 out of 5 stars Simply hilarious
I'm sat here at work *willing* England to take a wicket in the 3rd Test agasinst RSA at Trent Bridge. Read more

Published on 15 Aug 2003 by daminc

5.0 out of 5 stars Funnier than Bill Bryson?
Definitely. This book is a landmark in cricket literature. You people that skipped work to see another collapse. Read more

Published on 6 Feb 2002 by K. S. Muneer

5.0 out of 5 stars For No. 11 batsmen and 3rd-change bowlers everywhere!
Having read Rain Men for the third time - consecutively! - I can still find things to laugh at or empathise with. Read more

Published on 10 Aug 2001

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