A Look At: Tor
Friday, July 24, 2009
Book Review: Tor
For some reason this book – which is a history of German football - had stood, unread, on my bookshelf for a couple of years. I had bought it in one of my usual spending sprees and then felt little inclination to read it. Well, that’s not completely true as I had actually started to read it, not really liked what I saw and dropped it soon after.
The reason for that was down to the opening chapters being devoted to the early days of the German game. Which, if truth be told, is a bit off-putting.
Stick through those opening few pages, however, and it gets much more interesting as I found out this summer. For, what Hesse-Lichtenberger manages to do extremely well is link the German social history with that of the development of the game. And if that sounds boring, well, it isn’t. There’s evidently been an enormous amount of research but you hardly notice that as the narrative style adopted effortlessly links between one story and another.
This is a wonderful book, one where you’re genuinely disappointed when you turn over that final page simply because it has come to an end. A must read.
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2 comments:
I reccomend reading his column on soccernet, it's often higly entertaining
Indeed I do and it is very good.
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