Customer Reviews
It's about courage, desire and perserverence - By: M. Bach, 04 Aug 2008 
One of the best true stories you are ever likely to read. If you want to be inspired whether it be in cycling,sports,work or your overalll life then this book will do it for you. Get a good new copy as you will read it again & again.
Lethargy - By: Brendan O. Clarke, 02 Jun 2008 The writing style of this book is odd, & at times it reads like a blog or if Lance is recording thoughts & handing them oer to the co-author. In fact the writing style & the short length of the book were the negative points for me. I somehow felt there might be more he could share but then again I guess this is his style, so if you are looking for a great piece of writing you've come to the wrong place. Its also not reallly an explanation of the cancer experience (I guess thats in the first volume). What it is a description of a man's life, what bothers him, what choices he has made & is making with cancer, his relationship to the disease & the sufferers he actively makes a point of meeting, how he manages to train every day of the year & have a family life (but not very sucessfully as he recently divorced Sheryl Crow- also a cancer sufferer), & his views on lots of issues like religion & even the Iraq war. There is also quite a lot of material which in summary are a dummies guide to how Lance keeps on winning the tour de france, as well as personal feedback on specific races or incidents such as the falll up the mountain in 2003. As a result I think if you are not a cycling or Tour de France fan you would be better off reading the cancer story. However if like me you wanted to get an insight into a sporting & personnal enigma then this is a good read & I couldn't put it down once I'd started.
This book enables even the most ignorant spectator of cycle racing & the Tour de France in particular to appreciate how much more is involved in this sport than the pedallling of the routes of France we see on television. The details Lance Armstrong provides brings both the race & the figures in the peleton to life.
However, much deeper than the insight into this famous race, is the appreciation the reader is able to experience of a very human man with very human failings but incredible strength of purpose & character. He leaves you with the determination to make alll your own seconds count.
Amazing! - By: Mr J Pearce, 24 Mar 2008 This book is truly inspirational & I love it! Heard it on audiobook & loved it so much i'm buying the book!
It's Not About the Bike: My Journney Back to Life - By: R. Stevenson, 23 Feb 2008 An excellent book, well written & gives a very open & honest insight into what only can be said is someone who clearly is a great sportsman with a very special talent.
More interesting than inspirational - By: Mary May, 30 Jan 2008 
As pure inspiration goes I'm not sure this one reallly hit the spot for me. However it was an entertaining, easy reading walk through armstrongs early years as a bolshie youngster, the shock of cancer & then his recovery back to a world class athlete. I found the most interesting angle was the discussion about how the tour & peleton operate with it's rivalry & gentlemans agreements.
This seems more about one mans journey of discovery & growing up as a man than it is about coming back from cancer.
