132,928
edits
Changes
From TheBookbag
Jump to navigationJump to searchNewest Lifestyle Reviews (view source)
Revision as of 13:37, 28 November 2016
, 13:37, 28 November 2016no edit summary
[[Category:Lifestyle|*]]
[[Category:New Reviews|Lifestyle]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->
{{newreview
|author=Michael Brown
|title=The Mock Olympian
|rating=4
|genre=Sport
|summary=It started with an idle conversation just before the 2012 London Olympics: Michael Long's friend Sarah gave him a book as part of his birthday present. It was ''Time Out's'' guide to the history of the Olympics and it covered each of the summer Olympics in chronological order from the inaugural games in Athens in 1896. Sarah's boyfriend James commented that with all the running Michael did, he'd probably have run in most of the Olympic cities. Although Long had done a goodly number of runs, bike rides and triathlons he'd only competed in two of the twenty three cities - London and Athens. Now most of us would have left it at that, but that's not the Michael Long you're going to come to know and love. He saw it as a ''challenge'' and what's more he blogged about it and then wrote this book.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524662887</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Numba Pinkerton
|summary=William Poundstone believes that we are all in the business of predicting, whether it be something as minor as playing rock, paper, scissors to pay a bar bill though to anticipating how the housing or stock markets are going to move. Now, I'm not particularly competitive - if whatever it is means ''that'' much to someone else then I'd rather let them have it - so this book didn't appeal to me on the basis of doing better than someone else, but I was interested in how it might be possible to predict what is going to happen. So, care to predict how it stacked up?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780744072</amazonuk>
}}
