On the alcohol front, he’s developed a taste for fine wines and loves a cold beer to quench his thirst but if you’re chasing a scandal prompted by excessive consumption, then turn your attention elsehwhere. Nothing to see here.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Yuck yuck. I’m sorry, but even just re-writing that makes me hurt a little inside. I feel like I should be wearing a polyester shirt and braces when I read that.<\/p>\n
The problem with the book is that not a single page goes by without me tripping up on a piece of writing so strangely stilted and inept that I have to read it three times, then sometimes aloud for my wife, wondering all the while at the artlessness of it. I’m a slow reader at the best of times but this book was really dragging me down. It’s not a dense book by any means, a fast reader could knock it over in a day, but I’ve been on it for months and now I’ve ground to a halt. I really don’t think I can go on. I’m just that….close to crying<\/i>. (Hope you remembered to be breathless, just in your head if you’ve learned to read silently.)<\/p>\n
I’m\u00a0exactly\u00a0one-third off the way through the book. I’m definitely the lantern rouge<\/i> of readers and maybe I should let the broom wagon sweep me up. I can’t see myself finishing this book ever. The events are a matter of record, the prose awful, the insights scant and there aren’t nearly enough pictures of Cadel and his wife with their enormous glasses, bored waiters and distracted children, like this one:<\/p>\n <\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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For about six months now I’ve been trying to read this book: You’re probably familiar with it already. It was published three years ago, before Cadel won the tour, and was the story of Cadel, his cycling, his mum…and how he was…close to flying. (Say that last phrase a bit breathless if you can.) Soon […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,53],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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