Patrick Patterson and the World of Others

I was truly amazed by this book. It is such a perfectly blended mish-mash of so many different things.

Patrick Patterson and the World of Others book review

It all works together to create a quirky, unique and fun book. I feel like I've found a shiny gem that I want to show off: Patrick Patterson has gone through twelve years of his life with his head down. He lives in a boring farm town, and a good day for him is avoiding the jerkiest guy at his school. One day his whole world is shaken up, and he is taken on a wonderful and dangerous adventure to find out who he truly is. A premise that you've heard before, but it seems very fresh in this telling.

Patrick is a character that you can relate to and root for. The other characters hold their own and add the extra spice to this book. Ok, I pretty much just loved this one. The characters, the world, plot, imagery. It was all great. You know that happy feeling you get when you're reading a book and you mentally congratulate yourself for finding it and knowing it rocks? My only complaint is that I don't think the cover gives you a glimpse as to what you're in for. It doesn't quite fit the quirkiness of the book.

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It's the first book in what will be a series, and I really see great things ahead for it and for the author. I can't wait to read the next book, 'Patrick Patterson and the Search for Infinity'. Check this one out! See all 11 reviews. There's a problem loading this menu right now. Learn more about Amazon Prime. Get fast, free shipping with Amazon Prime. Get to Know Us. English Choose a language for shopping. Not Enabled Word Wise: Not Enabled Screen Reader: Enabled Amazon Best Sellers Rank: Amazon Music Stream millions of songs. Amazon Advertising Find, attract, and engage customers.

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You can't teach hospitality. Believing in the core values of the company you work for. There is a place out there for you but it will take an effort to find it. Don't tackle a problem right away; be patient and formulate a plan first. Service and hospitality are completely different things. You should want your co-workers to move on and do better things if they want it. If you screw something up just fix it!

Don't expect people to come to your restaurant just because you open the doors. I returned to the Caribbean in for a tri-series, and, this time, I decided to expand my search beyond Kingston. It takes three hours to get there if you take the ragged roads winding through the hills.

The roads are lined with shacks where locals play dominoes. I would stop at each one of them, asking whether they had any information about Patrick Patterson. However, they, too, insisted not knowing exactly where he was or what he was up to. Finding him had become such an obsession that it was the first thing I mentioned to my bed-and-breakfast owner, Courtney, a former US marine who gave up watching cricket after Garry Sobers retired.

I laughed it off.

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But, by the next afternoon, Courtney not only had a number but also an address for the man who the rest of the Caribbean insists had gone AWOL for good. Courtney would later reveal that he had contacted one of his friends, Fred Locks. A year-old reggae star from the s, Locks continues to record music and is a dedicated Rasta with locks that stretch well beyond his feet. He lives in the same area where Patterson was assumed to be living. It was Locks who would inform the former pacer about an Indian cricket writer who had been on his lookout for years.

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Why do you want to meet him so badly? Eventually, upon incessant prodding, he agrees to meet after two days. When I call him on the appointed day, though, he has gone back to being reluctant about the meeting, telling me how difficult it is for him to do this. It takes 45 minutes to convince him to tell the world his story. This is the day of the fifth ODI in the India-West Indies series and Patterson changes the topic to inquire about the score, insisting that he barely knows anyone who plays for West Indies these days.

He hangs up, requesting to be given an update about the match later. When I call him later and reveal that Virat Kohli — who he has heard of and speaks of in the same breath as Sachin Tendulkar who he bowled to in Sharjah, he says — has scored yet another ODI ton, he agrees to meet me that evening. At 6 pm, I am outside his gate. This time, he is waiting for me. He recalls having caught a fancy for cricket by watching villagers in Portland play the sport during weekends.

Though he always wanted to bowl, he also fancied himself as a batsman, even opening in one game for his high school.

The bowling action, too, was natural. His talent with the ball got him attention even as a country boy, but it reached new heights when he moved to Kingston. Patterson was getting faster and his leg was starting to go higher, and, before long he was debuting for Jamaica. He was roped in to play in the Saddleworth League in England, a lower-tier league based in Lancashire, where Patterson claims he was playing alongside 60 and year-olds.

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He was being paid a pittance and pretty much left to fend for himself. It made me feel awkward. Matters grew worse, he claims, when he finished the season there and joined Tasmania in Australia as an overseas professional in the Sheffield Shield. The treatment there was equally humiliating, he reveals, with the state team refusing to provide him with any sort of formal accommodation.

Patterson, of course, would go on to higher honours soon after with the West Indies and gain notoriety as one of the most menacing fast bowlers in the world. He never played again. But, even while he ran roughshod through opposition line-ups, he insists on having felt uncomfortable and ill at ease in his own dressing room.