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Roy of the Rovers: The Official Autobiography of Roy of the Rovers
by
Roy Race
The greatest story ever told by the world’s most beloved sportsman, Roy of the Rovers, in his own words for the first time. The shocking details of the five terrifying kidnappings that threatened to blight his playing career; the stomach-churning murder attempt in 1980, which left Roy in a life-threatening coma; the sickening car bomb attack that tragically killed eight of
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Paperback
,
320 pages
Expected publication:
November 1st 2015
by Random House UK
(first published October 9th 2014)
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Utter horsesh**
A great big steaming turd of a book, and thats being kind!!
A misjudged gag and indeed a factual error surrounding the deaths of two players who didnt actually die in the strip in "Roys" introduction should have warned me about what I was getting into. A dreadful attempt to turn the career of Mr Race into a comedy as Roy is so blinkered by football that he continually fails to see woman attempting to pick him up and doesnt realise that the reason Ben Galloway starts coming into wor ...more
A great big steaming turd of a book, and thats being kind!!
A misjudged gag and indeed a factual error surrounding the deaths of two players who didnt actually die in the strip in "Roys" introduction should have warned me about what I was getting into. A dreadful attempt to turn the career of Mr Race into a comedy as Roy is so blinkered by football that he continually fails to see woman attempting to pick him up and doesnt realise that the reason Ben Galloway starts coming into wor ...more
Roy Race (AKA Roy of the Rovers) is the perfect football hero. He's successful, a family man and dedicated to his beloved Melchester Rovers in a way that few modern day footballers are. He's one on his own, and I'm surprised he (ahem) hasn't written an autobiography before now.
I really wanted to love this, to fondly relive some of the moments from the comic strips of my youth, such as the Mel Park earthquake. Unfortunately, I found it a bit lacking. Firstly, I found the discrepancies between the ...more
I really wanted to love this, to fondly relive some of the moments from the comic strips of my youth, such as the Mel Park earthquake. Unfortunately, I found it a bit lacking. Firstly, I found the discrepancies between the ...more
Yes, it's an "autobiography" of a fictional footballer but don't expect this to be a serious book based on the actual comic strip.
This is very much tongue-in-cheek. Roy played professionally for over 40 years?? Kidnapped 11 times??
There are lots of good jokes in here and I enjoyed reading it. There are compilations of the comic strip available if you want them (and I do!) but this is a jokey version of the life of the Melchester Rovers great
This is very much tongue-in-cheek. Roy played professionally for over 40 years?? Kidnapped 11 times??
There are lots of good jokes in here and I enjoyed reading it. There are compilations of the comic strip available if you want them (and I do!) but this is a jokey version of the life of the Melchester Rovers great
I was really looking forward reading this book, since I've always been a fan of the Roy of the Rovers comic. However this book was pretty disappointing and even annoying. The writer attempts to be funny in almost every sentence and it gets lame real fast.
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