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Title: Every Second Counts by Lance Armstrong ISBN: 0-385-50871-9 Publisher: Broadway Pub. Date: 07 October, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.31 (62 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: I have much more respect for Lance now.
Comment: We all know what Lance did these last five years. We all kind of sort of know about his failures, the Olympics, his failure of his marriage. What we did not know is that Lance was evolving into a thoughtful and introspective human being. This book isn't about the bike either. It is about life, it is about teams, it is about competition, it is about living. Most bike enthousiasts probably won't like this book because Armstrong and Jenkins did not go into the minutiae of training, racing, and the grueling pace of the Tour. What they did accomplish is to follow Lance along in his thought process and his reaction to the amazing things that have happened to him since he started winning the Tour de France consecuetively and deal with his reaction to these events.
I enjoyed the book thoroughly, as a coach looking for motivational material, as a person who is searching for meaning, as sportsman looking for people who understands competition and honor.
I would recommend this book to any thinking person who is not looking for a quicky celebrity bios, because you would be disappointed with this book. If you are looking for blunt, intelligent, sometimes funny, sometimes philosophical inquiries into a life, then this book is for you.
Rating: 3
Summary: An off-the-cuff-style retrospective
Comment: This book won't win any literary awards but its an entertaining read. Lance gives his first person account of what life has been like for him since attaining his dual icon status as cancer surviver and multiple Tour de France winner. If your a fan and you've kept up with him throughout his cycling career then you'll enjoy the glimpse into the chaos thats behind his machine-like rides. Its light reading and will be most appreciated by his fans. This is not a continuation of "It's Not About The Bike". The theme's from his first book are visited but only with their relevance to his life since his first Tour de France victory.
Rating: 4
Summary: Follow Up, how life is after cancer
Comment: This book is the follow up of the book, it's not about the bike which is about his career up till his second win.
In this book, all his wins (5) in the Tour de France are mentioned. It is mostly about how he felt during the last three and how cancer played a role in it.
It shows us there is more to life than just cycling. Cancer stays with a person for ever.
His relationships with other cancer patients are emotional and gripping and is also shows he was the lucky one.
This book stands out from other books about cycling, it is very personal and not just about baseball but also about life in general.
He also explains some things that had happened in the Tours, his historic ride towards Mt Ventoux with the late Marco Pantani, his fall and Jan Ulrichs' fall. For those he have followed the Tour the last couple of years, this gives a very good insight, also because it is well written.
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Title: It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life by Lance Armstrong, Sally Jenkins ISBN: 0425179613 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 04 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Lance Armstrong Performance Program: Seven Weeks to the Perfect Ride by Lance Armstrong, Chris Carmichael, Peter Joffre Nye ISBN: 1579542700 Publisher: Rodale Press Pub. Date: 09 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Lance Armstrong: The Race of His Life by Kristin Armstrong, Ken Call ISBN: 044842407X Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap Pub. Date: October, 2000 List Price(USD): $3.99 |
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Title: Bobke II by Bob Roll ISBN: 193138228X Publisher: Velo Press Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Official Tour De France: Centennial 1903-2003 by Lance Armstrong, Matt Rendell, Nicolas Cheetham ISBN: 0297843583 Publisher: George Weidenfeld & Nicholson, Ltd. Pub. Date: 01 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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