The Mozz biog is totally readable up until the mid 90s court case when he becomes a little bit bitter, self-indulgent and biased towards his own self interest. I read it, holed up in a Scottish Bothy 15 months ago. No heat, no alcohol, no hope of escape. Heaven knows, I was miserable then.
"April 5: Woke up in a sweat, peeped through curtains. The horror! Bloody wind had blown brush onto the backyard again. The wife was snoring so I crept downstairs into the kitchen and fixed myself a coffee. Bracing myself against the clammy outback air, I pulled on my boots and headed out to meet the eternal enemy.." Available at all fine bookstores
Just finished 'The very thin book on accountancy in football' by Martin Fish. Read it in three minutes.
Recently read How Dogs Love Us by Gregory Berns. Basically the story of how a neuroscientist trained his dog to go into an MRI scanner so he could scan its active brain and compare it to human brain activity. Moves forward the notion of animal consciousness a notch. Suggests plausible evidence to demonstrate that canine brain activity mirrors our own in terms of capacity to cognate abstract feelings. Backs up claims that emotional awareness is a characteristic shared between humans and mammals high on the phylogenetic scale. Me mutt was chuffed to be told that he's not an unfeeling, instinct driven, self serving, eatin', sniffin', shaggin', pissin', sleepin', killin' machine. Although, truth be told, he really is. Selfish bastard.
Thats actually not bad. I could sell the movie rights to Michael Bay and we would all get the pleasure of watching two hours of brush being blown up on the big screen.
Actually I'm re-reading it, William Shatner's Tech Wars. I read the Partridge bio recentley and it was top notch, I'd recommend it for all fans of the character. I'm also half way through 'The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' by James Joyce, which is a pretty good read. I read Ulysses first, so I'm trying to tie it all in.
No problem...partial to the subject myself...living vicariously through other peoples amazing lack of fear and sense of adventure. Never cultivated that attribute myself.
