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Summary: Highly Humorous Look at Overseas Coaching
Review: A fun, highly humorous look at coaching basketball overseas as only Pat Stewart could describe it. His unique sense of humor gives you a roller coaster ride through the adventures of coaching in a foreign country. Especially fun for anybody who has coached, played, or traveled overseas with a basketball team. You will enjoy it!
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Summary: Pat Stewart is the "UN Ambassador" of International Hoops!!
Review: Having known Coach Stewart for many years, apart from being a very successful coach in several countries and at all levels he IS genuinely a funny guy! To do what he has done all over the world, beleive me you have to have a great sense of humour, a stomach lined with lead, the patience of a Saint and undoubtedly the technical expertise in terms of coaching. I found his book absolutely a great read, I couldn't put it down and have recommended it to several coaching colleagues of mine. Anyone who has been involved with International basketball will absolutely be able to identify with and share a good chuckle with the hilarious anecdotes that are Coach Stewart's life story!! Most pleasurable book this year!
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Summary: The Mid East Meets the Mid West in a Battle of Laughs
Review: I couldn't put it down for laughing! The narrative style of this book reminded me of James Herriot's "All Creatures Great and Small" series; only this time the narrator is a basketball coach struggling, against all odds, to lead his mighty band of Arabs on to victory at the Pan Arab Games. The tales are wildly hilarious and offer a unique insider's view to living and (almost) functioning Persian Gulf style. Plus you'll be able to find out why one good Ahmed is almost as good as a Michael Jordan in a pinch. Packed with vivid character studies and all the quirks of daily living--I'm not a basketballer but I still enjoyed the ride and would recommend it to anyone!
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Summary: Not Well Written
Review: Pat Stewart is a master storyteller. He has you belly laughing one moment and then shaking your head with disbelief the next. Insightful pilgramage with lots of laughs on the way to the Arab Basketball championships. Great reading for those who love to travel and have dealt with the ambiguities of foreign travel and living overseas. Stewart most be a wild and crazy guy to live the life he does. I could not put down the book, a real page turner. Could not wait to learn what crazy event was next on the tour de farce. I look forward to Pat Stewart's next book.
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Summary: Tour de Farce of Basketball
Review: Pat Stewart is a master storyteller. He has you belly laughing one moment and then shaking your head with disbelief the next. Insightful pilgramage with lots of laughs on the way to the Arab Basketball championships. Great reading for those who love to travel and have dealt with the ambiguities of foreign travel and living overseas. Stewart most be a wild and crazy guy to live the life he does. I could not put down the book, a real page turner. Could not wait to learn what crazy event was next on the tour de farce. I look forward to Pat Stewart's next book.
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Summary: Not Well Written
Review: You can tell by the way it is written that Pat Stewart thinks he is very funny. Unfortunately, he is not! The book drags along to the point that it very hard to read. In fact, I could not finish it. Reading it felt like watching a bad comedian bombing on stage - you just want it to end. In the hands of a better writer this may well have been a good book. The subject matter had potential. Travelling abroad is ripe for comic attack as, I am sure, is putting together a basketball team in Saudi Arabi. It's too bad that the writer couldn't make any of the humor flow. He was constantly throwing in one-liners of his own trying to add humor. The most poorly written book I have read in the four years I have been buying [...]
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