Author: Gulu Ezekiel
Published: 2008
Publisher: Westland Limited
Paperback: 128 Pages
Readers in India:
While I write this, the performance of the Indian cricket team captained by M.S. Dhoni (the subject of this book) is not too impressive in this World Cup (though they have reached the quarter-finals).
And same applies to this book. The author is supposed to be one of the best-known sports journalist. Maybe he should have stuck to it instead of trying his hand in writing books especially a biography.
A good biography should paint a very interesting and realistic picture of its subject. You must really get to know the person whose life is being described.
However this book has a feel of some newspaper reports of the matches involving Dhoni loosely stitched together. We really don't get to know Dhoni as a person.
This is one book which I will not recommend to anybody except may be to die-hard Dhoni fans, who may lap it up.
Ignore the Buy Buttons in this post ! I just retained them to maintain the consistency of my blog posts !
Actually I ordered this book from India Plaza recently when they offered it for just Rs. 1 as a special World Cup offer. Maybe they wanted to get rid of the huge inventory of this book which hardly anyone would have bought otherwise.
Published: 2008
Publisher: Westland Limited
Paperback: 128 Pages
Readers in India:
While I write this, the performance of the Indian cricket team captained by M.S. Dhoni (the subject of this book) is not too impressive in this World Cup (though they have reached the quarter-finals).
And same applies to this book. The author is supposed to be one of the best-known sports journalist. Maybe he should have stuck to it instead of trying his hand in writing books especially a biography.
A good biography should paint a very interesting and realistic picture of its subject. You must really get to know the person whose life is being described.
However this book has a feel of some newspaper reports of the matches involving Dhoni loosely stitched together. We really don't get to know Dhoni as a person.
This is one book which I will not recommend to anybody except may be to die-hard Dhoni fans, who may lap it up.
Ignore the Buy Buttons in this post ! I just retained them to maintain the consistency of my blog posts !
Actually I ordered this book from India Plaza recently when they offered it for just Rs. 1 as a special World Cup offer. Maybe they wanted to get rid of the huge inventory of this book which hardly anyone would have bought otherwise.
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