Hyped through the roof, I waited for a long time for this to appear in paperback. In the meantime, Lance had gone on and won his third Tour de France in a row. Too bad they didn't add a new chapter about it to the book.

It's a good book, but not all I expected. For one thing, I don't think I would get along with Lance all that well. He brags about how he drives at insane speeds in his car whenever he's in a hurry. In real life, that kind of behaviour leads to dead people, sooner or later. Then he admits that he didn't read any books before, and doesn't say he now does either, so he comes across as a typical athlete who knows nothing about nothing. For more stereotyping, there's a "confession" that he used to sleep around a lot in his younger days. You can all guess what comes next, right? He meets his current wife and is instantly transformed as a person. I found the whole Lisa-situation under explained. Oh yeah, and his belief that a ghost of his dead teammate helped him win a stage...Still, it was a fun and easy book to read.