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Summary: Excellent book!! Great insight!!
Review: I recently picked to read this book, for a project I had to do in my 11th grade English Class. It was an amazing book!! I loved how it shared his thoughts and not just the facts. It made me, the reader, want to be there for him , to cheer him along. It helped to understand how hard a situation like that can be, and how much, no matter what the current situation, life should be appreciated and not taken for granted. This book was beautifully written, and I enjoyed every minute of it!!!
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Summary: Eleven Seconds Book Review.
Review: I think that this was an excellent book. It was about a guy named Travis Roy, who played hockey for Boston College. In his first game he gets checked into the boards and becomes paralyzed from the shoulders down. He then has to start his life over again by learning how to live with someone always having to take care of him. He learns to overcome this. He goes back to school, and lives his live as a normal kid. I thought that this was a great book.
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Summary: Average book,
Review: I thought the book provided some good experiences that you might encounter being a quad. I feel that this book can be missleading to other quads. What travis goes threw is not the same for everybody who is a quad. There are Quads who are able to walk after years of hard work in therapy, and to me that would be a book I would want to read if I was a quad. A story about a person who beat the odds of being a quad. I have meet a few and was amazed in how they did it. Their stories were truly uplifting.
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Summary: Very uplifting
Review: I thought the book was very good. Having a brother who currently is playing Division 1 college hockey shows me how quick your world can turn upside down. This is one of those books you don't want to put down because you want to see what happens next. It also shows how there are some good people who really care about total strangers so read this book.
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Summary: One of the best books I have read!
Review: I went to Boston University with Travis and seeing him every day uplifted me because he was so upbeat about life. This books chronicles what none of us ever wish to go through. Travis is a wonderful person who I have come to greatly admire. He has become an idol to me in the fact that I was in a wheelchair for a while after a brain surgery and he was my inspiration. I kept his book by my bedside and said to myself daily "If Travis can do it, so can I." This book is inspiring and not drawn out. If you are remotely interested in sports, hockey, or this story itself, I reccommend you read it. I have a signed copy from Travis himself and have read it numerous times. It's hard to put down once you begin to read it!
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Summary: One of the best books I have read!
Review: I went to Boston University with Travis and seeing him every day uplifted me because he was so upbeat about life. This books chronicles what none of us ever wish to go through. Travis is a wonderful person who I have come to greatly admire. He has become an idol to me in the fact that I was in a wheelchair for a while after a brain surgery and he was my inspiration. I kept his book by my bedside and said to myself daily "If Travis can do it, so can I." This book is inspiring and not drawn out. If you are remotely interested in sports, hockey, or this story itself, I reccommend you read it. I have a signed copy from Travis himself and have read it numerous times. It's hard to put down once you begin to read it!
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Summary: Heart breaking and heart warming
Review: I will start off by saying this is not the most well written book. However, what it lacks in style, it more than makes up for with honesty and heart. This is a book that shows all of the anguish, and hope that has come from this story. After reading this, you will believe that Travis Roy is one of the strongest and most inspiring people you could ever know of.The best part about this book is that Travis freely expressed himself. He was unafraid to show his dispair, his grief, his desire, and his heart. I feel that element makes this different from any other similar story out there. There were parts where I laughed and parts where I cried. This book made a big impact on me because I was there when Travis has his accident and I saw how the school got together as a community to support him, something which was rare for such a large and varied institution of people. I higly recommend this book to any sports fan, hockey fan, or anyone who just needs a little inspiration in their life.
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Summary: Extremely moved.
Review: I would like to know more about him now. I would like to know of his progress. In fact it would be nice to have a website to maintain the contact to his recovery.
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Summary: It was great.
Review: It was the best book I've ever read
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Summary: Story of courage and honesty
Review: Last year I helped Ekaterina Gordeeva write her poignant memoir, My Sergei, a project that led to my acceptance of a similar assignment with Travis Roy, the Boston University freshman who became paralyzed in his first shift of his first college hockey game. Many of the same elements that made My Sergei a success are at work in Eleven Seconds. This is not a hockey story, which casual readers may suspect from the cover. It is the story of overcoming adversity at a young age, of love in its many forms--love for family, of coach, of girlfriend, of friends--and, finally, of the beautiful and rugged resilience of the human spirit. Travis is going to be okay, but in the last two years he's had a lot on his plate, and he shares this with the reader with a trust and honesty not often found in these kinds of books. I loved working with Travis, just as I loved working with Katia, because they have the clear-eyed frankness of youth, and have been exposed to adversity far beyond their years. They both face it without bitterness, and have grown from it in ways too complex to get into in this short space. In these two young people we can all learn a lot about living with and overcoming obstacles that life places in our paths, of what is important in life and what is trivial, and of the fleeting nature of unencumbered happiness. And about the true nature of love. This is a book I believe readers will remember, and treasure. Enjoy.
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