Author: Bill Hutchison

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Fiction

Bleachers by John Grisham – Book Review

Bleachers by John Grisham is a great airplane or travel book. I read it in about 12-hours, with a good 8-hour sleep in the middle of it.

Bleachers is unlike any other John Grisham novel that I have read. It is a story set in small town USA that is based almost entirely around American Football (or gridiron to those of us not in the USA or Canada).

Your main character in the book is Neely Crenshaw, who is returning to his home town of Messina to bury his high school football coach, Eddie Rake. Both Neely Crenshaw and Eddie Lake are home town icons. Eddie for how he ran the football team and Neely for being probably the best quarterback the town has ever produced.

Given the length of the book the character development is excellent and the story is a lot of fun to read.

I would highly recommend the book to anyone who likes American High School football, and definitely to people who have played it. You will more than likely recognize many of the characters in the book as typical characters that you would have gone to school with.

You can read many other reviews about this book, or even purchase it for yourself, over at Amazon.com.

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Self-Help

Win a Free Copy of The 4-Hour Workweek

John Chow, over at John Chow dot Com, is give away a free copy of “The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich“.

During the last few months I have been hearing a lot about this book, but I have never read it myself.

Has anyone out there read the book? If so, what sort of feedback have you got about it?

You can check out the free book offer at John Chow dot Com: Wn the Fourth Signed Copy of the 4-Hour Workweek.

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Audio

Free Audio Book Downloads

I found some free audio book downloads a few weeks ago and downloaded a few to have a listen.

The sound quality on them is pretty good and the voice doing the narrating on the book that I listened to (White Fang by Jack London) was a bit flat, but I could definitely listen to it.

In addition to the voice narration they also have some text to speech books for download. I have not tried listening to them yet, but I would be curious to see how those turn out.

You can download your own free audio books at Free Classic AudioBooks.

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Biographies Nonfiction

Spy Catcher by Peter Wright

Spy Catcher: The Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence OfficerAt many points while reading this book I actually found it quite hard to believe that it was true. The book read to me more like a Fredrick Forsyth novel than an autobiography of a senior inteligence office. It is a much better read than fiction as it is written by a man who has been there and done that.

For five years we bugged and burgled our way across London at the State’s behest, while pompous bowler-hatted civil servant in Whitehall pretended to look the other way.
Peter Wright on his early years in MI5

No book this century has attracted more attention than Spycatcher. It made front-page headlines around the world as the British government tried desperately to suppress Peter Wright’s explosive revelations. Spycatcher tells with startling frankness and detail the devasting story of a government agency which operates outside the law, where the only rule was the 11th commandment: ‘Thou shalt not get caugh’.

Spycatcher is the first real shaft of light to penetrate the murky world of spy and counter-spy. That world will never seem the same again.