Wayne Rooney: My Story | 
 enlarge | Author: Wayne Rooney
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Category: Book
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 117752
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.2 x 0.9
ISBN: 0061455415
Dewey Decimal Number: 796
EAN: 9780061455414
ASIN: 0061455415
Publication Date: May 1, 2008
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One of the most talked about stars in the world of soccer, Wayne Rooney now talks about . . . Wayne Rooney—no-holds-barred. Wayne Rooney is barely twenty-two years old, and he's already one of the finest soccer players in the world. Colorful and controversial, he plays—and lives—with an intensity that's unmatched on and off the field. With remarkable candor, he now tells the true story of his life. From his working-class upbringing on the back streets of Liverpool and his Premiership debut as a sixteen-year-old phenom to his ebullient entrance on the international scene in the 2004 European tournament and the raw drama of the 2006 World Cup, Wayne Rooney: My Story is an honest and inspiring account of a prodigiously gifted youngster and his meteoric rise to fame and fortune. It is a riveting tale of adversity and triumph, of champions and championships, of a private life that never could escape the headlines . . . and of a remarkable athlete whose destiny was forever altered when Manchester United came calling in the summer of 2004.
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 Perfectly passable ghosted bio June 22, 2008
I enjoyed this quick trip thru the life of a young soccer talent. Don't expect War and Peace and you won't moan about the plight of literature.
 Profit by Treachery April 29, 2008
4 out of 10 found this review helpful
I sometimes wonder (and worry) about the amount of praise works like this often attract. Lame in effort and execution, dumb and tedious in its reality, it beggars the question why we're not, as a society, a lot more critical?
Is it because, as I suspect, and the people who produce this trash know for sure, no-one gives a monkeys?
This convivial lack of disapproval, twinned with general social lethargy ensures we get what we deserve, and therefore, what we expect/want, with no questions asked.
Of course this stuff will keep right on coming until we can muster up some sort of resistance to it, and at the moment I would say that's highly unlikely.
What we need is some quality control in our own lives, and the inclination to back it up.
It would be a start if we could curb the exposure of some of the people who are supposed to be steering us clear of this stuff. Too busy `appearing' somewhere to be of any use at the business end, too involved to see the damage they're doing, and allowing to be done.
But far more importantly, as a civilization we must vent every way we can, our abhorrence and intolerance for the debased, the tawdry and the creatively unclean. Sneer and scorn the lame ducks and the half-talents. Bring pressure to bear on those who exist only for profit, and actively encourage, for lucrative financial gain, the deliberate and VERY real `dumbing down' of pretty much anything and everything in our culture.
This afflicts across the board; the arts, travel, food, particularly sport, where the opportunity to guide our young people by good example is criminally wasted.
And at it's cold black heart, its nadir, is us as people, in the land of the dead, sucking it all in without retort, without obloquy, and worst of all, without conscience or shame. Arise; Sir Vermin.
`Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile.' Future generations will need some explaining to.
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