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Bad blood – Jezzer Whittle

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  • October 30, 2008 at 6:07 pm #11485
    mst

    I take it you guys saw that this is short-listed for Sportsbook of the Year? If not its a nice news story (or not as the case may be!)

    http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/30102008/4/trescothick-book-shortlist.html

    For those of you that havent read it, read it. You’ll be sceptical of anyone who pulls a ‘surprise’ win, forever…

    Great journalism

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  • November 3, 2008 at 7:55 am #625657
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    mst

    I think the reason Bad Blood
    is so good lies in the fact that Whittle was lured into the Armstrong lair (as an example) and then saw it for what it was…

    November 2, 2008 at 12:31 pm #625655
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    Tony Farrelly

    Fair point

    Fair point

    November 2, 2008 at 12:25 am #625653
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    Chuffy

    Whittle and Walsh

    tony_farrelly wrote:

     I thought it was a  better read than Breaking the Chain and possibly more powerful than Walsh’s in that Jeremy started out as someone who wanted to believe and found he simply couldn’t. I don’t think Walsh ever  believed… 


    Ah well, Breaking the Chain is a translation of a book written by a non-writer (if you know what I mean!).
    Not sure that I’d agree with you re: Walsh. He was co-authoring books with pro-cyclists back in the late 80s, so he must have had some belief (especially as that cyclist was Stephen Roche).

    October 31, 2008 at 11:08 pm #625651
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    Tony Farrelly

     I thought it was a  better

     I thought it was a  better read than Breaking the Chain and possibly more powerful than Walsh’s in that Jeremy started out as someone who wanted to believe and found he simply couldn’t. I don’t think Walsh ever  believed… 

    October 31, 2008 at 10:48 pm #625649
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    Chuffy

    It’s certainly readable, but

    It’s certainly readable, but a bit too reliant on other books, the work of Mr Walsh for example. A useful introduction to the growing genre of ‘drug cynic’ literature, but you’ll want to move on to even more hair raising tales, like Breaking The Chain and Lance To Landis. You probably won’t find it on Lance’s bookshelf though… >:)

    October 30, 2008 at 10:47 pm #625647
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    Tony Farrelly

    You’ve done it for us!

     We didn’t know it had been shortlisted, but we’ll certainly be keeping an eye out to see how it does. I can certainly vouch for the fact that it’s an unputdownable read!

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