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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN num: 9781582342900
ISBN number: 1582342903
Label: Bloomsbury USA
Manufacturer: Bloomsbury USA
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 160
Printing Date: June 12, 2003
Publishing house: Bloomsbury USA
Sale Popularity Level: 30622
Studio: Bloomsbury USA
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Product Description:
A literary sports classic, finally available in the U.S.
Originally published in Holland in 1978, The Rider became an instant cult classic, selling over 100,000 copies. Brilliantly conceived and written at a break-neck pace, it is a loving, imaginative, and, above all, passionate tribute to the art of bicycle road racing.
Not a dry history of the sport, The Rider is beloved as a bicycle odyssey, a literary masterpiece that describes in painstaking detail one 150-kilometer race in a mere 150 pages. The Rider is the ultimate book for bike lovers as well as the arm-chair sports enthusiast.
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I had high hopes for this book, and truly felt it deserved only 2 stars. However, since there are not many cycling "novels" on the market, I felt compelled to issue a 3 star rating.
Just like the perennial movie that wins "Picture of the Year", and you shake your head and ask, "WHY"...this is no different. Granted, the author does offer the reader an occasional, brilliant passage or two that perhaps only a seasoned cyclist can directly relate to, but those are much too few and far between.
What's between is a mix of strange writing dialogue that...quite often... not only doesn't make sense, but he tends to bounces back in time to previous stories, and it gave (this) reader a bit of difficulty in not only following the intended story at hand, but staying focused enough to finish the book.
Rather disappointed.
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This review will probably not be highly enlightening, as all I can say is that I thought The Rider was fantastic, even though it lost focus at times.
But my true gain here was that it led me to Krabbe's The Cave, which is one of the most beautiful pieces of writing I have had the good fortune to read.
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This book is very well written. At times, I felt like I was actually there to experience the events. I even learned some things about racing strategies from this book. I fell in love with this sport all over again.
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Run, quick read. Great book for any cyclist. I could relate to some of his stratedgies as he was going thru the race and his feelings of praying for a mechanical. The book tends to jump around a bit, think "Lost style" flashbacks. This book will get passed on to some friends in my group ride for sure. One of the best cycling books I've read, still like Obree's book best though.
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I really loved the book. It is for sure in my 10 best books ever list.
The book really manages to describe with precision what goes inside a rider's mind (and all the dilemas) during a race. The style is quite humurous and easy to read.
But do not forget that the book is literally rich and powerfull. There are some phrases on the book that kept me wake for a couple of nights...
But I am not sure if a non-racer entusiast will like it that much.
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