I've been wanting to read this ever since I finished Andy Miller's The Year of Reading Dangerously. It was quite hard to get hold of: I could only find it secondhand, which is probably because it's slightly dated (originally published in 2002). I'm glad I read it though. It's a non-fiction book about someone who doesn't like sport but forces himself to watch and play it for a year. Andy Miller's hatred of sport stems from being humiliated at school - particularly when he tried to make the hockey team. Over the course of a year he goes to the Boat Race, watches Queens Park Rangers Football Club, and plays a lot of minigolf. It reminded me a bit of Lynn Truss's Get Her Off the Pitch! (2009). In some ways, it's like a travel book: a foreigner visits a foreign land. I understand why some people don't like sport and feel alienated from it. But I'm not one of them. That said, there are times when I go off certain sports for a time. It's funny and entertaining. The best bits were about his love of minigolf, which takes him to international tournaments in Denmark and Latvia.
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