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A Dog in a Hat: An American Bike Racer's Story of Mud, Drugs, Blood, Betrayal, and Beauty in Belgiumby: Joe Parkin September 15, 2008 Best Selling > Books > Biography |
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This memoir would not have been published a decade ago. Then, cycling books were idealized, all sunflowers, suntans and white teeth. If the Festina Affair was some kind of milestone, more recent events have stripped the veneer from pro cycling to expose a drug-fuelled sham. Its aspiring saviours face a huge challenge.
Joe Parkin wanted to be the best. Arriving from the USA as an innocent, he witnessed in Belgium the darker side of cycling at his first pro event with riders openly injecting themselves as part of pre-race preparation. Parkin was a nearly man. Fate, or ability that fell short, kept him from the big win that would make his name. But he kept trying, absorbing Flemish culture and speaking the language. ... Read More: >>More Details |
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Liar's Poker (Hodder Great Reads)by: Michael Lewis June 05, 2006 Best Selling > Books > Biography |
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This is a fascinating book and doubly so for someone like me who thought that characters like Gordon Gekko (from the movie "Wall Street") are fictional. These people are real and really rich.
The book follows Michael as he starts on his career at an investment bank as a naive graduate with no experience of finance. One gets the feeling that the whole time he is working there is an extended out of body experience. He spends a lot of the time, it seems, being shocked by his brash American colleagues - he is British - and the other half wishing he could be like them, at least for a while. Particularly amusing is the tale of dinner at Buckingham palace, and particularly interesting/shocking is the profits that were made from the Chernobyl nuclear ... Read More: >>More Details |
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Somme Mudby: E.P.F. Lynch October 09, 2008 Best Selling > Books > Biography |
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I was interested when I saw this book as my grandfather was at the Somme but would never speak of it. I had heard about it in history and seen a few television programs but I was interested to learn about it from the mind and voice of one who was there.
Once started the book is very hard to put down. My respect for my grandfather and those who went off to fight this war has grown tremendously. A must read for those wishing to know about those unsung heroes who gave their all. >>More Details |
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Graham Roberts - Hard as Nails: The Autobiographyby: Graham Roberts, Colin Duncan November 13, 2008 Best Selling > Books > Biography |
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I am suprised that he is not a fisherman with the truth being stretched so much and down right lies but then again he has to make a living but this should go into fantasy
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Ever, Dirk: The Bogarde Lettersfrom: Weidenfeld & Nicolson August 14, 2008 Best Selling > Books > Biography |
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At first glance I thought this was going to be a difficult book to read, mainly due to the author's idiosyncratic spelling and grammar as well as the plethora of foot notes necessary because of the constant use of nick names, initials as well as, at times, private shorthand - but it really wasn't a problem. The spelling was simply phonetic and the punctuation etc. was immaterial - and the little footnotes became quite enjoyable!
This is (probably) a book enjoyed by the more mature, those who can remember the names dropped - Guilgud,Montand,Signoret,Coward - those who lived in a time when being gay was being happy. If you have read Dirk Bogardes several volumes of autobiography it is even more fascinating as this book reveals the proper names of people that were heavily ... Read More: >>More Details |
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Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man and Life's Greatest Lessonby: Mitch Albom July 24, 2003 Best Selling > Books > Biography |
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I did like this book a fair bit.
I think that it summarises important, but admittedly obvious, life lessons and sometimes re-stating the obvious to people with busy lives is a very worthwhile exercise. I disagree with other reviewers who have said that the book is badly written; I assume that the author has written in the style he has to make the book as accessible to as many as possible. There are many books around whose style is so dry and academic that, whilst they contain great ideas, they are so complicated in the way they are expressed that the idea is often lost. That said, I agree that the book does no more than introduce fairly well known ideas of how to live. It does not dwell on them and I feel it would have benefitted from slightly longer ... Read More: >>More Details |
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Ronan O'Gara: My Autobiographyby: Ronan O'Gara October 09, 2008 Best Selling > Books > Biography |
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I did like this book a fair bit.
I think that it summarises important, but admittedly obvious, life lessons and sometimes re-stating the obvious to people with busy lives is a very worthwhile exercise. I disagree with other reviewers who have said that the book is badly written; I assume that the author has written in the style he has to make the book as accessible to as many as possible. There are many books around whose style is so dry and academic that, whilst they contain great ideas, they are so complicated in the way they are expressed that the idea is often lost. That said, I agree that the book does no more than introduce fairly well known ideas of how to live. It does not dwell on them and I feel it would have benefitted from slightly longer ... Read More: >>More Details |
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Agent Zigzag: The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman: Lover, Traitor, Hero, Spyby: Ben Macintyre June 04, 2007 Best Selling > Books > Biography |
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If you like adventure then you can't go far wrong with this book. During World War II, petty East End criminal Eddie Chapman finds himself banged up in occupied Jersey's prison. He is given a lifeline that he cannot refuse - come and work for German secret intelligence as a spy or face the consequences. Eddie opts for the former and is thrown into the grandiose world of a German spymaster. Now he is faced with the moral dilemma of double-crossing his country or the gamble of double crossing his new found boss. You'll have to read the book to find out which choice he makes ... I thoroughly recommend this book!
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Being Jordanby: Katie Price July 01, 2005 Best Selling > Books > Biography |
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This was the first book of katie's that i read and i really enjoyed it. She is very forward about everything she says and isn't afraid to speak what's on her mind! Thats what i love about it, it's just about her. It's a great read and i would recommend anyone to get it, it would be money well spent! :)
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On The Edgeby: Richard Hammond September 20, 2007 Best Selling > Books > Biography |
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really enjoyed this account of a fascinating individual. His sheer guts and determination is matched only by that of his wife who clearly supported him through the most difficult period of his life. It brings 'the hamster' into the heart of the reader.
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