Wednesday, 4 November 2009

Ain't no sunshine now he's gone...

One of the new blights on UK high streets is a shop called The Works, a bizarre abomination apparently aimed at people who want to buy a big picture book of World War II fighter planes and a massive pack of felt pens in the same place. 

They hoover up publishers' leftovers and stack them up for a few quid a go. In there the other day, I saw Michael Vaughan's 'Year In The Sun' for 50p.

The blurb on the back contained the superlative line: 'There's never a dull moment when the 2002 Cricketer Of The Year is on the field'. 

Laugh? I almost bought it... 
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4 comments:

  1. Brian Carpenter5 November 2009 at 02:05

    I can understand the dilemma - 50p sounds a decent price, but you wouldn't quite buy it for that. Maybe if they knock it down to
    25.

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  2. The Old Batsman5 November 2009 at 08:22

    Yes, not sure what the price threshold is for A Year In The Sun. Maybe 20p just as it requires a single coin? 25's too fiddly...

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  3. Patricia6 November 2009 at 11:51

    I get the feeling that Michael Vaughan isn't your favourite person?

    Last summer I bought a few second hand books from a sale at the Oval - and I even got to go into the pavilion! to buy them. The ones I thought would be really good were pretty awful - eg Viv Richards, far too pleased with himself and rather boring. I really couldn't tell from the covers and the blurb what they would be like.

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  4. The Old Batsman6 November 2009 at 12:38

    Patricia, I know it seems that way - I've almost been feeling bad about it. But he's got that unfortunate capacity for false humility, which is what made me laugh about the line in his blurb.

    I agree about King Viv's autobiography too - a tremendous disappointment.

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