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It's Not About the Bike by Lance Armstrong
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it was ok

So...I understand that Lance is not a writer - but why hire a ghost-writer that cannot write either?

That aside - "Its Not About the Bike" is a combination cancer survival against the odds/sports prodigy story/inspiration.

Lance seems like an arrogant asshole, its true, but I couldn't help getting all ferclempt when he wins the tour the first time...I love cycling, I am truly fascinate by the mental and physiological processes of true athletes, and this book *did* give a little insight.

Maybe with a better writer he would have conveyed how much the cancer changed him...he kept saying that it did, but he didn't show me. Sports book - feh. What can you expect?

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Maria It is like you read my mind!


message 2: by Billfrog (new)

Billfrog stern I met a guy who used to bike professionally in europe. He said Lance was the biggest jock a$$hole around, until he got the cancer, and then he became a nice, caring, thoughtful guy.


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