Todd Tyrtle

Decent book with some good points. BUT oh man, the repetition. Concepts were beaten to death even going so far as to literally say at the end “We presented the same list in the introduction...” and then proceeding to copy and paste the content from the beginning all over again. I know repetition helps learning but maybe it also helps bulk up a book when you need to get it to print and you haven't quite got enough content also?

Still, it was an inspiring read despite this obvious flaw.

Merged review:

Decent book with some good points. BUT oh man, the repetition. Concepts were beaten to death even going so far as to literally say at the end “We presented the same list in the introduction...” and then proceeding to copy and paste the content from the beginning all over again. I know repetition helps learning but maybe it also helps bulk up a book when you need to get it to print and you haven't quite got enough content also?

Still, it was an inspiring read despite this obvious flaw.

I watched the film for this earlier this month and really enjoyed it and was so excited to see that there was a book to fill in the missing pieces for me. I was not disappointed. Fascinating and inspiring all at once. It makes me want to get out on my own bike and see how hard and how long I can push myself.

What a fascinating book. It has the dubious honour of being the first book I ever put on my “Didn't finish” shelf not because I didn't like it but because it was, in some ways too good.

Too scary, infuriating, upsetting and anxiety inducing for me to continue with. It's also, really sad. I do volunteer work regularly with many folks who are addicted and of course that's upsetting and stressful. (But I'm glad I can help) but reading this just put this at the top of my mind all the time.

But readers better at dealing with this than I will enjoy this I think.

Reasonably good for most of it then dissolved into a pseudoscience non-proof of the existence of God and support of so-called intelligent design. Without that I'd say the book was a solid 4 but that last but alone would've been a 1.

It seems very appropriate for me to give this book a one word review.

Oof.