- Hardcover: 242 pages
- Publisher: Little, Brown (15 Jun 1995)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0316914576
- ISBN-13: 978-0316914574
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15 x 2.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 631,498 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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 ) --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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 ) --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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* The most hilarious book ever written about amateur cricket.
--This text refers to the
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24 of 24 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
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.
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.
29 of 30 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
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...
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...
35 of 37 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
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 from the time it left the bat
A delight and you will love this book right away or give up after 3 pages not knowing what it's all about, bit like cricket then really. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Barrington Blythe
I didn't laugh as much as they said I would
When I would read this author's backpage piece in the Wisden cricket magazine I often found its smug satisfaction in playing cricket to a worse-than-medicocre level vaguely... Read more
Published 5 months ago by Andy
Entertaining
Light and entertaining. A frolic through the travails of any wanabe cricketer, although the sentiments and characters must be true in all sporting walks. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Alf King
Middle order batting
The last time I bought a book on 'laughability' described on the dust jacket it was Simon Winder's 'Germanania' and you can read my review of that book. Read more
Published 9 months ago by The Ancient Mariner
Really Good Book
If you have ever played this silly game at any level, buy this book. Brilliantly written, it had me laughing out loud. Read more
Published 12 months ago by SouthernDave
bat and ball
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Published 18 months ago by Simon Hatfield
Funny and wince makingly embarrassing!
A truly entertaining book to read for all people whose range of cricketing excuses outweighs their ability. Read more
Published on 9 Nov 2009 by Mr. LGD Williams
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 on 2 Sep 2009 by D. W. Miller
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 on 6 July 2009 by J. Lieberman
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 on 30 Mar 2009 by Andrew Morse
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