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Post by iilforddave on Aug 30, 2009 20:50:59 GMT
...And She Laughed No More by Stephen FosterWinger graciously got the publishers to send me a pre-release copy so that I could review it for the fine folk of the oatcake message board. Its very much in the style of "She stood there laughing" and none the worse for that, it starts off in the dying embers off our promotion season, with our intrepid author and some fellow Stokies listening to the commentary from Colchester via radio stoke, on a laptop whilst drinking rather large quantities of Belgium Beer ;D. Along the way we learn all about the characters that accompany (or not) winger to games across the season, some are names regular MB readers will know, some are people from his other books who crop up from time to time, and then there is his son, who is now grown up, and has an interesting career that will certainly make a few of the younger readers do a double take, I certainly had a "did I honestly read that right" moment !!!!! Its the personal insights that make this book, we all know how the story ends, and even the final chapter is in this one  , but its reading someone put in print how many of us feel about football that makes it such a worthwhile read. I found my moods fluctuating as I read about each game, happy for a win, sad for a loss, depressed for a thumping, and I don't think you can ask more than that from a book about a season you saw a large proportion of with your own eyes. There are plenty of laughs along the way, and even a moment that brought a tear to my eye
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Post by Olgrligm on Aug 30, 2009 21:00:27 GMT
I'm looking forward to this one, I really am. I liked 'SSTL', I should therefore like this.
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Post by Mr_DaftBurger on Aug 30, 2009 21:03:16 GMT
He's not worried about sales then! ;D |
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Post by stonestokie! on Aug 30, 2009 21:16:15 GMT
Really want to get this, seems a good read.
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Post by PotterLog on Aug 30, 2009 21:22:42 GMT
So where's the review then?
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Post by iilforddave on Aug 30, 2009 21:25:03 GMT
So where's the review then? what do you want, an outline of whats in the book ? Or for me to print all the best bits ? I've written film reviews before, and ended up doing plot spoliers, so I've tried to avoid that here |
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Post by mailman44 on Aug 30, 2009 21:26:08 GMT
Who wrote it? Same author as SSTL? Belay my last, just opened the link. Am ordering now. ;D
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Post by iilforddave on Aug 30, 2009 21:26:53 GMT
Who wrote it? Same author as SSTL? yes, Stephen "Winger" Foster |
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Post by mailman44 on Aug 30, 2009 21:28:15 GMT
Thanks Dave, I was sleeping at the wheel.
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Post by offthewall on Aug 30, 2009 21:30:12 GMT
Reading FFS
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Post by PotterLog on Aug 30, 2009 21:30:28 GMT
So where's the review then? what do you want, an outline of whats in the book ? Or for me to print all the best bits ? I've written film reviews before, and ended up doing plot spoliers, so I've tried to avoid that here 'Kin hell Dave, that was it?? That's an easy way to get a free copy of the book mate! I've seen Ted write more than that in his subject line! ;D |
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Post by Orbs on Aug 30, 2009 21:30:46 GMT
"She stood there Laughing" was quality so looking forward to this one. Dave is it similar to "We don't know what we're doing" the Adrian Chiles book about following The Baggies for a year? Obviously if you haven't read it then you won't know ;D |
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Post by iilforddave on Aug 30, 2009 21:32:14 GMT
Who wrote it? Same author as SSTL? Belay my last, just opened the link. Am ordering now. ;D wouldn't you be better off ordering off USA Amazon ? oops just looked and its not listed on there, hope they don't shaft you on shipping costs, i once tried to order a particular liquor off an US website that cost $20, almost fainted when I saw the shipping costs were $1000  |
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Post by iilforddave on Aug 30, 2009 21:40:09 GMT
what do you want, an outline of whats in the book ? Or for me to print all the best bits ? I've written film reviews before, and ended up doing plot spoliers, so I've tried to avoid that here 'Kin hell Dave, that was it?? That's an easy way to get a free copy of the book mate! I've seen Ted write more than that in his subject line! ;D Having paid for all his other books, bar the first one, which I still haven't read, AND sold him an old race bike with Reynold 501 tubing for just £30, he either owed me a few pints or a book |
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Post by mailman44 on Aug 30, 2009 21:44:26 GMT
Dave,
Let me know the next time you need something from the good ole USA. What shocks me is the shipping cost from the club shop to the USA ... in a word shocking! "Cost prohibitive" comes to mind.
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Post by iilforddave on Aug 30, 2009 21:45:22 GMT
Dave, Let me know the next time you need something from the good ole USA. What shocks me is the shipping cost from the club shop to the USA ... in a word shocking! "Cost prohibitive" comes to mind. strangely i was just making this point on the "long term business plan" thread |
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Post by OldStokie on Aug 30, 2009 21:54:47 GMT
I don't want to speak to winger. The bastard. He owes me a new phone!  Oh, the book...it's very good...has a much better ending than She Stood There Laughing...in fact, if you don't enjoy the moments he describes in our first season, then you didn't enjoy the season. It's all there, every emotion through that roller-coaster ride. Just one aside: PHW's will be at his throat - the traitorous sod.  OS. |
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Post by Trouserdog on Aug 30, 2009 21:58:02 GMT
So where's the review then? ;D That's what I was thinking. His book reviews are even worse than his history essays. |
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Post by stokie25 on Aug 30, 2009 22:00:48 GMT
Sounds very promising but i'm inclined to take my own memories from the experience and not adopt those of others. All credit to Winger for recording his though.
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Post by iilforddave on Aug 30, 2009 22:01:07 GMT
So where's the review then? ;D That's what I was thinking. His book reviews are even worse than his history essays. So just worse than your songs, but slightly better than your sitcoms |
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Post by MarkWolstanton on Aug 31, 2009 0:38:27 GMT
I happened to pass by Ilford on Saturday as it happens Dave.
I have wriiten a book on the subject called I Sat There Not Moving.
You should move sunshine.
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Post by iilforddave on Aug 31, 2009 8:51:56 GMT
I happened to pass by Ilford on Saturday as it happens Dave. I have wriiten a book on the subject called I Sat There Not Moving. You should move sunshine.  is there some kind of hidden meaning in this, or were you just stuck in traffic ? |
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Post by Northy on Aug 31, 2009 8:59:03 GMT
Sounds very promising but i'm inclined to take my own memories from the experience and not adopt those of others. All credit to Winger for recording his though. I'm with you on this one, something else less for the wife to dust |
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Post by MarkWolstanton on Aug 31, 2009 9:02:51 GMT
I happened to pass by Ilford on Saturday as it happens Dave. I have wriiten a book on the subject called I Sat There Not Moving. You should move sunshine. is there some kind of hidden meaning in this, or were you just stuck in traffic ? I was stuck in traffic for a loooooonnnng time. The place is a bloody roadwork. |
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Post by iilforddave on Aug 31, 2009 9:13:54 GMT
bet it was the gasworks on the A12 at gants hill roundabout, I avoid them, but then having lived here for 12 years i do know all the back routes |
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Post by MarkWolstanton on Aug 31, 2009 9:51:07 GMT
bet it was the gasworks on the A12 at gants hill roundabout, I avoid them, but then having lived here for 12 years i do know all the back routes That was indeed the culprit. Couldnt avoid them as I was on route to the West Ham Academy. |
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Post by OldStokie on Aug 31, 2009 9:54:57 GMT
Winger's book is far more interesting than you boring pair of farts talking about a fucking gasworks. Haven't you got any work to do, Mr Wolstanton? Order an arial or summat.  Haven't you got a cat litter to clean out, Dave? M. |
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Post by northstokie on Aug 31, 2009 9:55:50 GMT
Can we buy this now? I'm off abroad on Friday to get married and would be nice to have some 'Stoke' to take with me...
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Post by stevebigsmokestoke on Aug 31, 2009 9:58:53 GMT
a 12 bud
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Post by northstokie on Aug 31, 2009 10:00:51 GMT
Would help if I looked at the link, have chanced the first class delivery...
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, but its reading someone put in print how many of us feel about football that makes it such a worthwhile read. I found my moods fluctuating as I read about each game, happy for a win, sad for a loss, depressed for a thumping, and I don't think you can ask more than that from a book about a season you saw a large proportion of with your own eyes. 
is there some kind of hidden meaning in this, or were you just stuck in traffic ?
Haven't you got a cat litter to clean out, Dave? 
