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PostPosted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 7:30 pm    Post subject: Ken Bruce Article Reply with quote

The link is to a serialisation of the book.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1205153/Gin-lunch-whiskey-tea-Radio-2s-Ken-Bruce-reveals-midlife-crisis-days-drink-enough.html
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 7:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I read this yesterday in the MoS ..... not sure what to make of it really.
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 7:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi Rach - what are you not sure about? Had a quick scan of the link, looks like a potted extract from Ken's autobiog. I'd like to read the whole book.
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 8:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

As Sunday exposés/appetisers of autobiographies go it sounds rather tame. It also reads as though he's left a lot of the work to a ghost writer.
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 8:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ken Autobiography called " Tracks Of My Years " is out in September.
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 9:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Published Sept 4, in fact.
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 9:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

MadeinSurrey wrote:
Hi Rach - what are you not sure about? Had a quick scan of the link, looks like a potted extract from Ken's autobiog. I'd like to read the whole book.


Hi MiS , you know when you have a clear idea in your mind, how a person is? Well, the autobiog extract doesn't stack up with my image of KB: not in a shocking way, more disappointing I guess. It's like it has been written by someone much younger with emphasis on the things a young chap might identify with. To be fair it is about the early part of his life but even so, it feels like a young person looking up with admiration of the behaviour of a person much older, than it perhaps should be, an older person looking back, pointing out why that was not really the best way forward.
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 10:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Rachel wrote:
MadeinSurrey wrote:
Hi Rach - what are you not sure about? Had a quick scan of the link, looks like a potted extract from Ken's autobiog. I'd like to read the whole book.


Hi MiS , you know when you have a clear idea in your mind, how a person is? Well, the autobiog extract doesn't stack up with my image of KB: not in a shocking way, more disappointing I guess. It's like it has been written by someone much younger with emphasis on the things a young chap might identify with. To be fair it is about the early part of his life but even so, it feels like a young person looking up with admiration of the behaviour of a person much older, than it perhaps should be, an older person looking back, pointing out why that was not really the best way forward.



Blame the Ghost Writer? I think he's just expressing how it is. At the end of the day we don't know the full content of the book.
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 10:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Rachel, I expect it's been targetted at the "yoof" market! I'm sure the book as a whole will make a good read.
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 1:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

mark occomore wrote:
Blame the Ghost Writer? I think he's just expressing how it is. At the end of the day we don't know the full content of the book.


Assuming that this excerpt hasn't been subbed too much at the Mail (I wouldn't put it past them - I hate that paper), it looks to me like Ken has actually compiled audio recordings from which a transcription was made, and then tidied-up by a copywriter with Ken's approval. The sentences and paragraphs are short and very "matter of fact" and it doesn't flow very easily, which doesn't seem that characteristic of the man himself - but who knows?

That said, I'm an avid reader of autobiographies and I look forward to reading this one. Whether it's as good as Johnnie Walker's only time will tell!
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 2:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think it has been subbed - it reads as if they've given the book to a school leaver who might have passed his GCSE English and told him to summarise it.

Considering how the Mail likes to make a mountain out of the smallest little foible our heroes may have, if that's the worst they can come up with for Ken then he doesn't have much to worry about. Then again, it won't make for a riveting read, although I'm sure it will be full of amusing wee anecdotes.
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 16, 2009 7:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

There is another article about Ken in the Wail today, clearly the book is being serialised. At this rate there will be no need to buy it!
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 16, 2009 9:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'll skip the rancid rag that is the Wail and wait for the book!
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 16, 2009 10:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/femail/article-1206734/Ken-Bruce-Why-I-believe-world-better-place-family-experience-child-autism.html

This one's worth reading. It's about, and how they cope with, his autistic son.

It is far more cohesive than last week's excerpt. Typically, it took some tracking down; it was in a different section, and not listed in the contents on the front pages, even of the femail magazine it's in.
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 17, 2009 7:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

colby wrote:
I'll skip the rancid rag that is the Wail and wait for the book!


I entirely agree. Why do people buy the appalling rubbish that masquerades as a newspaper??
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 17, 2009 8:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

MadeinSurrey wrote:
colby wrote:
I'll skip the rancid rag that is the Wail and wait for the book!


I entirely agree. Why do people buy the appalling rubbish that masquerades as a newspaper??


It's the only paper that has a crossword I can do without any help. Smile
We get the Times also - I'm lucky if I get three or four of those clues.
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