Demon Books

[Supermercado 2,660]

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/JIM-STYNES-WHATEVER-TAKES-NO-732-1000-LEATHER-/360333688416?pt=AU_Antiquarian_Collectable_Books&hash=item53e58fbe60

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ROBBIE-ROBERT-FLOWER-1987-/380258682516?pt=AU_Non_Fiction_Books_2&hash=item58892f0694

I just nabbed the Flower book thanks to the Buy It Now feature. $13 with postage maybe slightly OTT but screw it, it's easier than trawling op shops.

How's the guy trying to sell an ex-Library copy of Grand Old Flag for $65? http://cgi.ebay.com.au/GRAND-OLD-FLAG-History-Melbourne-Football-Club-hcdj-/370418070302?pt=AU_Non_Fiction_Books_2&hash=item563ea3331e

Edited January 5, 2011 by Supermercado

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Went past Melbourne Sports Books today and picked up Dumb Like A Fox and the Urge To Merge. They've also got copies of the Flower book there.

Strikes me that there has never been a book about the club that wasn't either produced by the club itself or from an ex-player/coach/identity.

[Keyser Söze 0]

Went past Melbourne Sports Books today and picked up Dumb Like A Fox and the Urge To Merge. They've also got copies of the Flower book there.

Strikes me that there has never been a book about the club that wasn't either produced by the club itself or from an ex-player/coach/identity.

Most AFL clubs would be in that position, would they not?

[Supermercado 2,660]

Most AFL clubs would be in that position, would they not?

Maybe, but the day I saw that somebody had actually put out a book by some idiot writing about his life following the Fremantle Dockers I started to wonder wtf was going on with the publishing industry in this country.

I've got the feeling that there's a truckload of books from various angles - journos etc.. - about your "big four" but maybe it's the norm for the rest of us. I think there are South Melbourne/Sydney and St Kilda histories out there that are written by sympathetic journos but they might have been doing it for the club for all I know.

Either way, get writing kids.

[Grapeviney 9,048]

Maybe, but the day I saw that somebody had actually put out a book by some idiot writing about his life following the Fremantle Dockers I started to wonder wtf was going on with the publishing industry in this country.

i presume you're talking about "Way to Go", by the late and great matt price, one of the better journalists this country has / had

thousands of readers of his work at The Australian would beg to differ that he was ''some idiot'' - indeed, 31 pages of pretty heatfelt tributes at the bottom of his obit, here

http://blogs.theaustralian.news.com.au/mattprice/index.php/theaustralian/comments/journalist_matt_price_dies_aged_46/

/end rant

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Just because he has passed away, it does not make the premise of his book any less stupid or inane.

[Grapeviney 9,048]

i dont agree with the notion that the book was either stupid or inane, or that its author was some idiot

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Emotive moments and 5000 pages of tributes aside the fact that he was 'famous' explains why anybody would put out a book about Freo.

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He was "famous"..?

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You'd have to be to get a book about Phil Gilbert published.

[Whispering_Jack 28,118]

I have a book, "100 Years of Football: The Story of the The Melbourne Football Club 1858-1958" written and edited by E.C.H Taylor.

It's an absolute gem and I derived great pleasure from reading it when I first got it many years ago. I've read it twice since and it makes a great reference book on the club's early days.

There's also a little known book about Melbourne called "Highway of Demons" which hasn't been published yet but is being serialised on Demonland. It's also part biographical, part science fiction and partly a paean to a genre of music that was beginning to blossom the last time Melbourne won a premiership flag.

My favourite non MFC book is Kill for Collingwood (the best club history by a mile) and Playing God (the best football biography - about G Ablett Snr).

One thing that surprises me a little is that whenever we publish an historical article or report on Demonland it receives very few hits compared to some other more trivial subjects. I think it's important for all followers of clubs to be aware of their history and heritage.

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Gutted this thread died because I need the link to the last Crosswell column that I posted where he admitted to honking onto a bucket of KFC and some amphetamines before the 1970 Grand Final.

UPDATE

You'd never believe it but I just guessed a date and there it was

http://news.google.com.au/newspapers?id=IkoQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=y5IDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3646%2C4769575

Edited January 20, 2011 by Supermercado

[Keyser Söze 0]

Shame.

I didn't get a chance to read the other articles, either.