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Running: a global history - The Beast of Bevendean - 30-10-2009
I came across this on the London Review of Books list of Christmas books. Has anyone read it? Any good? And how, I wonder, should we pronounce the author's name?
Gotaas, Thor
Running: a global history
Reaktion, 2009
978-1861895264
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RE: Running: a global history - Sweder - 30-10-2009
Nice work Tom, even if you did mention the C word
My guess would be Got Arse. Hmm ... Thor Got Arse ... Norse God of Brighton perhaps?
RE: Running: a global history - The Beast of Bevendean - 30-10-2009
Did the Vikings get this far south? But yes, that seems plausible.
It's curious, from the blurb the book could either be fascinating or utter tripe. I shall hie me to a bookshop and browse a copy before spending the Burra Mem's gin money. A quick check of catalogues found no copies in any of the public libraries I use.
RE: Running: a global history - Sweder - 30-10-2009
Hie ... thank you! Clue in today's Times2 Crossword: 'Go quickly (archaic)' - had no clue (erm, other than that one)
RE: Running: a global history - The Beast of Bevendean - 30-10-2009
Archaic? What do they mean? In everyday use chez Roper.
Serendipitous though, wouldn't you say? Like the compliers who were supposed to have put the codenames for various D-Day operations into the Telegraph crossword.
Time for a Friday evening run now: a quick five miles up and down the front.
RE: Running: a global history - Sweder - 30-10-2009
To encounter the word for the first and second time within hours? Serendipitous indeed, sir. Happy seafront plodding.
In a clumsily-attempted segue I too must dash for a Friday night appointment with our very own Seafront Plodder, along with Captain Tom, at the Dorset Arms. It'll end in tears, or at the very least the Spice Merchant
Pre-Brighton 10k tactics no dount to the fore. I fear tomorrow's (2nd Anniversary) B&H ParkRun 5k will be a perilously wobbly affair ...
RE: Running: a global history - The Beast of Bevendean - 30-10-2009
Steer clear of Spice Merchant: a friend's hen night is due in there. Wedding tomorrrow. Bride was a gymnast in her youth, but runs a bit now: turned cartwheels at the end of the Race for Life
RE: Running: a global history - Sweder - 30-10-2009
I suspect that will only encourage the Plodder.
Can't deny him a ruby again - almost hit meltdown last time we pulled the 'we're not hungry' stunt. Will watch out for cartwheeling brides-to-be.
RE: Running: a global history - El Gordo - 30-10-2009
(30-10-2009, 06:59 PM)Sweder Wrote: I suspect that will only encourage the Plodder.
Can't deny him a ruby again - almost hit meltdown last time we pulled the 'we're not hungry' stunt. Will watch out for cartwheeling brides-to-be.
After his Crawley triumph, it seems only right that SP has as much curry and and beer as that poor stomach can take. Which I suspect is rather a lot.
RE: Running: a global history - William_Shakespeare - 30-10-2009
(30-10-2009, 05:42 PM)tomroper Wrote: Archaic? What do they mean? In everyday use chez Roper.
Hie thee to victory, good Sir - mastery of language do oft prove to good profit.
RE: Running: a global history - The Beast of Bevendean - 03-03-2010
Providence, working through my son, has just given me a copy of Mr Gotaas's work, as a late birthday present...not his fault, but Amazon's.
I shall read it and offer a review.