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Summary: It's About the Man
Review: Lance Armstrong's story is one of incredible courage. The story is extremely well told. The passages on his cancer treatment were gut wrenching. There is no doubt in my mind that he is quite simply the greatest athlete in the world today. My wife and daughter read this and enjoyed it as much as I did,
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Summary: This book is a good read for anyone.
Review: I have a simple review for this book. It is not about bicycling. For the most part it is about love and determination. Lance goes from having almost no chance at all for survival to winning the hardest bike race in the world. You will not be disappointed.
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Summary: Great Comeback - Mediocre Book
Review: I was hoping for more but this is a typical subpar athlete's autobiography. Lance's story is incredible because he fought and came back and should inspire those in a similar situation. However, other than the cancer, Lance Armstrong is not an interesting individual and reading about his mundane conversations with his wife was a waste of time and was out of place for subject of the book. It was very interesting to read that Lance does not love cycling - he did it because he was good at it and it was a well paying job. I can appreciate that kind of honesty.
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Summary: THE LUCKY MAN
Review: In fact, when you read this book (It's not about the bike), you feel surprise, wonderful, and jealous at same time, because it explains the life when it changes to another cases.
This book has a lot of risks, and a lot of lucky issues, too. In this book Lance is a real lance, even his name is very similar to his success.
Lance had a lot of endurance to fight the life, the cancer, and the chemotherapy. Really he was lucky in his life when he was saved from the death, from the cancer and got his life back again. He is lucky when he has a mother like Linda, when he has a friend like Bill, when he has a doctor like Nichols. Rarely, we know people like that.
When you read this book, you know that, there are champions around the world make a surviving thing over the history, like Lance Armstrong. When you read this book, you don't like to leave it until you finish it. It is very nice book and very lucky man in it.
Finally, I want to be lucky like Lance Armstrong.
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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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