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Summary: Well Done.
Review: An inspiring publication. Worthy and noteful; to be read repeatedly through out one's life. There were several times I related Lance's contextual experiences to the Old Testament book of Job: Enduring much, but keeping faith. A book of this nature belongs in environments where growth and development issues abound.
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Summary: One Tough Dude
Review: This book is the most inspirational and entertaining you could ever find ! I have never watched a bike race. You don't need to be a racing fan to appreciate it. This book is about the MAN.If Lance Armstrong took up boxing as a kid, he would be the Middleweight Champion of the World. This guy is so tough that you gotta love him!
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Summary: Becoming An Adult
Review: This book is an excellent read. It is long on real-life and short on pity. There is a good look at life on a cycling/racing tour, something many Americans have never experienced. Lance Armstrong does a good job portraying his growth from a loud-mouthed, obnoxious teenager to a warm, caring adult. Although he does devote much of the book to his diagnosis, treatment and recovery from cancer, it is written in a matter-of-fact way, not a "poor me" way. He presents a good lesson in not ignoring unusual symptoms and getting to the doctor...had he done so when he first noticed changes in his body, he might have been spared much of the treatment agony he had to endure to save his life. This book is also a good lesson in exploring your treatment options, and seeking second, third, and even fourth opinions to save your life. This is an excellent book, easy to read, and gives us a realistic picture of the man behind the bike. Many good life lessons for all of us exist between the pages of this book.
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Summary: Just a great book, please don't let it pass you by
Review: I'm not a big reader, but I read this one pretty fast and I was thrilled! I have never been close to a cancer patient. That's why I wonder, if cancer is such a common desease, why then all this information is so new to almost everyone. After reading the book, Lance is like a brother to you, and you'll never look at a bike the same way again. Congratulations for this great book Lance.
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Summary: Awesome!
Review: Received this book as an X-Mas present and two days later I was sending it back to my mom so she could read it. Very quick read and an unbelievable story. I like to think I'm a "Man's Man" but this guy makes me weep like a little boy on the first day of school. He is a stud and he should be the "Athlete/Personality of the Century. Tiger is cool. MJ is also cool, but LA is the Bomb!
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Summary: Invulnerable? Better read this
Review: I'm a bike tourist, and I have never felt drawn to bicycle racing -- either for myself as a racer (ha!) or in following the accounts of others. So the title first attracted me to this harrowingly personal book. Lance is a Texas tough-guy whose daddy did him wrong; his step-dad was no prize, either. He lays it out honestly, and describes his move into the persona that could win one-day classic races on anger and defiance, but not the long-haul tours (which demand strategy and a willingness to lay back and let your team do some of the work). Cancer changed that for Lance. It changed his attitude, his place in life, his relationships, his focus, his mind, and his body. In allowing a medical team to bring him to the edge of death in the interest of destroying the cancerous cells in his body, Lance gained the ability to rely on others in accomplishing a goal. Tourists and racers who think that their team or group is everything would do well to study the relationships that deepen between Lance and his mother, his wife Kik, and his new son. It may be true that "everything is bicycle" when we're riding one, but we live in much larger networks, and most of us depend on those networks to sustain us in the parts of our life when we're not up on two wheels.
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Summary: CAPTIVATING AND DIFFICULT TO PUT DOWN!
Review: As a cyclist, I followed the tragedy of cancer and the triumph in the Tour de France of Lance Armstrong closely. Fortunately, this book has so much more detail of the true struggle he, his friends, and family faced during the days, weeks, months and years following his diagnosis with testicular cancer. The openness about his fears and how he overcame them make this book a volume of encouragement to anyone facing severe illness. Cancer definitely "picked the wrong body to live in" and Lance's own words will show you why. The book has just enough cycling jargon for the non-cyclist to understand what he is talking about, but not so much that it reads like a technical guide to cycling. An exceptional book, easy to read and hard to put down. I read mine in 3 days.
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Summary: don't race through life
Review: A good read. Makes you think about your own life and values.
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Summary: It's not just about the biker, either
Review: Wow! I just now finished the last page of Lance Armstrong's incredible story, and I had to share my thoughts and feelings. At several times throughout reading this book, I found tears welling up in my eyes (a bit self-consciously, as I did most of the reading in public places). I was touched and moved by the honesty of Lance's telling of all the aspects of his experience, as a champion bike-racer and as the conqueror of an almost-surely fatal disease, but mostly of his growth and unfolding as a person, his expanded awareness of the difference he has made and continues to make in peoples' lives.In the last chapter, Lance says "The one thing the illness has convinced me of beyond all doubt--more than any experience I've had as an athlete--is that we are much better than we know. We have unrealized capacities that sometimes only emerge in crisis." This statement sums up the sense he gives throughout the book, that it is not in fame or unparalled achievement that we can experience life's greatest satisfaction, but in the simple connections with our fellow human beings, in sharing our weaknesses and strengths, our joys and fears, life's daily triumphs over whatever "obstacles" appear. It is a lesson in living day by day, moment by moment, and not giving up, no matter what. I expecially enjoyed the description of traveling in Europe with his future wife during his recuperation from chemotherapy, and really seeing the places that he had only raced in before, experiencing them in a totally new and unexpected way, by sharing them with the love of his life and seeing them through her eyes. Another book that has profoundly impacted my life is "Working On Yourself Doesn't Work, a book about Instantaneous Transformation" by Ariel and Shya Kane. In a remarkably open and relaxed style, the Kanes explore through their own experiences what is possible when living in the moment, which is: love, satisfaction, joy, health, wealth, success in business and personal relationships, and freedom from the mechanical patterns that we all acquire as we grow up. I have seen all of these aspects blossom in my own life, without "working on" them, since reading the Kane's book. I am embracing the miraculous life that shows up every day, rather than bemoaning the one I thought I should have had. Buy and read this book! It's a personal handbook on having a great life!
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Summary: Excellent Book - Well written
Review: By the end of the book the reader feels as if he has walked a mile in a cancer patients shoes. Obviously, the struggle a cancer patient faces is greater than most of us will ever experience. However the author does an excellent job to realistically describe the daily regimen of a cancer patient. This is an uplifting book that stirs the empowering thoughts we all have within us. The only disappointment I have is that Mr. Armstrong went to great length to describe in detail how reckless he can be while riding his bicycle. I only hope that the younger readers will disregard Mr. Armstong's tendancies to speed through intersections with caution thrown to the wind. I also am hopeful that Mr. Armstrong has now realized just how precious life is and that he will change his behavior.
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