reading suggestions?

[Starfish]

John Wilcockson. I have the book. All about Lance and the tdf.

Funny, I don't remember it being so much about Lance. I learned so much about the TourDF itself, and the towns, etc.

[elk]

I had to put Riding with The Blue Moth down....I tried and got 2/3 of the way through...but the writing was so incredibly numb, affectless and sentimental that I couldn't finish it. His homilies and metaphors were so overwrought, they read like afterthoughts.

I was drawn to it because I loved the title..."blue moth" is a great metaphor for depression....but he doesn't go deep enough to do more than say I was depressed.

I kept waiting to share the bike and the feelings of grief... but it all stayed on the surface...Anyway...

I did start reading Dan Coyle's Lance Armstrong's War...what a thriller! And he's a good writer...

[crazycanuck]

Tim Mulliner's Long Ride For A Pie

It's the story of an expat NZlander who bikes from London to NZ..Not a bad book!

c

[elk]

what a great title!!!

[bikerchic]

Besides It's Not About the Bike which I liked a lot.

I've read Miles From Nowhere and I liked it a lot too.
Weird thing about reading that book my daughter and sil were on their honeymoon in Tahiti and Moorea just as I was finishing the book! That's where the bike journey finishes for the Savages too. When they came home and told me all about the islands I really felt I had been there too.

I have but yet to read this book; A Crossing by Brian Newhouse
A ride from the Pacific to the Atlantic. I'll keep it out and start reading it tonight. Thanks for the reminder!
And thanks for the good suggestions!

[Zen]

it's the best book I've read in a long time.
Madscot13 sent me A Walk In The Woods by one of my favorite writers,Bill Bryson.

[horsemom]

Not about biking, but worth reading for any outdoorsman---Deep Survival by Laurence Gonzales. Read about it here: http://www.deepsurvival.com/

Laura