Juan Gómez's Reviews > It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life

You will read a lot of bad reviews stating that the guy is an asshole and that the book is bad because he is a such cocky SOB. Buy you know what? if all of the people that are saying that, together, can even finish the Tour the France, they will write a book about that.
Lets face it, if you can win the tour 7 consecutive times you can write a book about anything. And if, on top of that, you did that after surviving the kind of cancer that this guy had, the book can be 300 pages with just your name on it.
Cocky is good is you can back it up.
Now to the book itself. Its an inspirational story with a fair narrative, but I found some structure problems that keep it from being a 5 stars book.
The book might not be about the bike, but it gives just enough bike to the people that, like me, were looking for it. In fact, the best parts on the book where the cycling parts (the pre-cancer training and the first tour win).
Other than cycling, you'll find a lot of personal information that makes this a very honest book.
Finally, I have to say that I respect him even more after reading this book, and that I loved the parts where he throws dirt at the people that abandoned him when he had cancer.