Armstrong, Lance and Sally Jenkins. It’s Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life.
New York: Berkley, 2000, 2001.
Everyone (who’s anyone) knows of Lance Armstrong and his greatness. His numerous Tour de France victories and his struggle to fight cancer – which he had in three different places! Many people still sport the yellow “Livestrong” bracelets that were made for him, to help support his recovery from cancer, even if he did leave his wife for Sheryl Crow. And although I knew little of biking and the Tour de France, something about Armstrong sparked my interest – and so I began to read.
I was intrigued, entranced, captivated by the very first paragraph in the book. Maybe it was because he first stated that he wanted to be a hundred years old, and wanted to die peacefully in a patch full of sunflowers. But, the way that the passage was written sparked my interest, too. Armstrong stated “a hundred” instead of “one hundred,” like most people would say. He used the word......
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