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Summary: A Life and Death fight
Review: "It's Not About the Bike" is a book that describes how important is to have a positive mind to deal with cancer disease. A young man that at an early age became a famous cyclist but as always happiness wasn't complete, since he learned at the age of 25 he had testicular cancer. Lance Armstrong, a great figure of cycling, had to deal with all the consequences that this disease brought. It's so terrible to know that meanwhile he was a healthy man everybody wanted to sign a millionaire contract with him, but after his sponsors knew he had cancer, they didn't want to know anything about him. Was this fair? No, I think it wasn't.
But Lance wasn't alone. In this world there were so many good people that were able to help Lance. To mention some of them, Bill Stapleton, who always tried to understand Lance when because of his frustrations he became bad-tempered. Dr. Craig Nichols, and Dr. Shapiro, because they showed they loved their career and they gave the best of them to cure Lance. I think this was a wonderful experience for Lance to be surrounded by good friends and good professional people. Lance Armstrong had had a good example from his mother. She had taught him always to see every "obstacle as an opportunity". I believe these positive thoughts helped Lance to deal with the adversities he has found in his long path. All what I can say to Lance is: GO AHEAD BOY! YOU HAVE A BEAUTIFUL LIFE BEFORE YOU!
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Summary: Almost Perfect
Review: This is a true story written by one of the American heroes about himself. Lance Armstrong is able to inspire you with his amazing death-to-life fortitude. One nice detail is his rather antagonistic perception of the American way of life. During his teenage hood he was faced with an assembly-line-like reality. He would describe his fellow citizens as people wearing 'uniforms' and living by same dull standards, where he obviously did not fit at all. Serious readers like myself would be less satisfied with underdeveloped and hidden details of his core personality that he basically made non-public. For example, Armstrong would express in one sentence that he was very angry in his early ages. However, he would not go into details of how angry he was, which could be the most probable reason of his cancer. Enjoy the book!
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Summary: Gripping candor from Page 1
Review: The greatest books are those that captivate an audience that knows little or nothing about the subject. Before reading "It's Not About the Bike", I had absolutely no knowledge of bike racing and (thankfully) little exposure to cancer. Lance Armstrong lays his life wide open to the reader, and the result is a touching, informative, and honest account of this man's life. Armstrong opens with the diagnosis of his cancer and the emotions he went through as the cancer spread and he was forced to decide between treatment startegies. He takes time to recount his childhood and his introduction to biking, explores in vivid detail his chemotherapy, discusses his psychological recovery from cancer, and closes with his return to professional bike racing and his "second life" as a cancer survivor. "It's Not About the Bike" is written in a simple, straightforward way. It is amazingly honest and open from the start, a quality it seems fewer and fewer autobioraphies possess these days. Armstrong doesn't try to create an image for himself or attempt to hide his mistakes. He doesn't shy away from difficult subject matter or even private pieces of his life. He tells his story with dignity, modesty, and a survivor's desire to let readers know that anything is possible.
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Summary: READ IT!
Review: This is very important and interesting book. I hope this book and Lance Armstrong, personally, help a lot of people who have cancer, thanks to Lance people will find a power to fight against this disease, because Lance did not surrender and finally he won this competition where first place is life. I hope also this book will be translated into the Russian language and Russian people can read this excellent book.
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Summary: CHRONICLE OF A STRONG HUMAN BEING
Review: When you feel death is around the corner, because you are suffering a fatal sickness, you really must be experiencing a lot of transformation, feelings you have to deal with, from love to hate. LANCE who was a professional bike rider, many time winner in different circumstances of his life, a strong body, is facing the greatest challenge in his entire existence; running against his more dangerous rival CANCER.
This book shows us, how a human being can fight against any obstacles, no matter how difficult they are. Love played a strong role in his cure, in which his family, friends and doctors were involved, even if his real love was to ride a bike and to be the best professional cyclist in the world. When this fatal disease came to his life, he realized that life is not only a bike-It has many other ingredients such us children, wife, the beautiful world beside the bike.
I compare Lance's stages of life with the different bike races in which he has participated,--because in both he is supposed to show self determination, courage, endurance and how to work together in order to get his goal.
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Summary: It's the most successful race to life
Review: This is a "must read book" to help anybody when something is important to us we must win the battle against any obstacles and learn how to cope with victory. This great book shows us that nothing is impossible for us to have; success; victories; sickness; tragedy, nobody is exempt of that and we need to be strong at all moment of our lives.
This is about a young American cyclist, dominicana03 Lance Armstrong who thought his body was invincible and super healthy because he was an athlete and had everything in life: money, a big house and fabulous cars, but in a not so far moment of his life he had to recognize that nobody is immortal and the cars, girls, victories, weren't really the most important facts. When he got testicular cancer, how you can imagine he didn't believe the doctor's diagnoses and try to get different doctors opinions and they were always the same "cancer", When he realize the truth his life became different to him, he knew that he wasn't the person he thought and he could really know that life it's more than the race; the bicycle; and any material thing he had and he realize his life wasn't only about the bike, was a race to life.
I want to encourage you to read this book because it can make a big difference in someone life.
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Summary: Coward man
Review: Coward man
I just finished reading the book, I t 's not A bout the Bike. This is the must wonderful book .I have read it in my life, and it 's also a true story. It was talking about Lance Armstrong's family, disease, sports and love, how his mother was taking care of him alone with no father until he became profession of cyclist. Something strong and depression was happening and he got cancer how lance deal with it...! Every one must have this book.
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Summary: "A MIRACLE"
Review: In our ESL Class of the New York City Technical College, we read Lance Armstrong's book "It's Not About the Bike". It is about Lance's real life. When Lance became a famous cyclist racer, he got testicular cancer. After the long treatments of chemotherapy, a miracle happened. The cancer disappeared. He is free now from the illnes and stil very famous because he won the Tour de France 3 consecutive years since 1999. I wonder if all cancer cases have the same happy end. But unfortunately not everybody has the same fate. I love this book and I invite everyone to read it. It's a wonderful story.
You would see a beautiful end. Thanks to God for this miracle.
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Summary: Book of hope
Review: I like this book. It is very interesting and very hopeful book. I highly recommend this book for everybody. It is very easy to read and very interesting book. I t is also a good source of information for bike riders and for ordinary people, because nobody knows what they may face in their future: good health or a disease.
This book is hopeful, because even though Lance got sick, after he thought about himself as an invincible person, he got a good treatment. After three years he fully got back to himself and become a big winner of ¡°Tour de France¡± for three years in a row. I hope he will win this year too. One day at the press conference Lance said ¡° I¡¯m determined to fight this disease. And I will win ¡±I think this is the most important sentence in this book, it is not only important for his disease, bat also for his life. I guess the ¡°will to win¡± is very important for everybody¡¯s whole life.
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Summary: A Man Who I Want to Follow
Review: A Man Who I Want to Follow "It's not about the bike" is a wonderful and inspiring book. In this book, it talks about Lance's pre-cancer life, cancer life and post-cancer life. His life, especially his cancer life tells us about the relationship of family, friends and the other people, and how to deal with it. His life also tells us about health and sickness, life and death, happiness and sadness, about the fears and difficulties; and how we should face them and deal with them. He told us "Make every obstacle an opportunity," "Make every negative a positive,"..........
I'm not a cancer survivor or cyclist, but I know how difficult it is to ride a bike. When I was little, I attended an elementary school, which was 15 kilometers away from my village. I had to ride my bike home to get food every week. There were a lot of ascents, it was very difficult for me to climb them. But I had to climb them to get home. Sometimes I had to ride home and then ride back to school in a day, I rode almost 30 kilometers a day. This continued until I went to college in 1994. So I had the cycling experience too. But I lost this hard spirit when I came to the U.S.A. I always thought about going back to China, because I felt it was very hard to live here. I didn't know the language; it was very hard to find a satisfying job. I always felt upset. But after I read this book, I learned from this book that the road under my feet is not always smooth, it sometimes will be up and sometimes will be down. So I must follow Lance Armstrong that I must make every negative a positive, I must conquer every difficulty I meet, I must make my road smoother and smoother. Dada
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