Publisher: Motorbooks
Authors: Valentino Rossi
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Reviews:
Summary: Mildly entertaining
I expected this book to follow some chronological order of events. It doesn't. It skips around and often doublebacks on itself recounting some facts several times. It sometimes feels like a padded highschool paper, which could easily have been half the size with better editing. However the most interesting tidbits, like Rossi's switch from Honda to Yamaha, rivalry with Biaggi, childish shinnanigans, etc. are all covered.
If you are a Rossi fan, you will enjoy this book, however a literal masterpiece it is not.
Summary: King Rossi the writer
Good book, it is a little fragmented skipping from one thought to another then back to the original thought later in the book, but hey the dood is a motorcycle god not a writer. If you appriciate Rossi and his love for life than you will enjoy hearing his stories. If you are looking for a literary masterpiece move on.
Summary: Life at the Top of the Pile
Every once in a while a sports figure comes along that completely dominates the sport, raising the bar so that what comes after bears little relationship to what went before. Tiger Woods did this in golf. And Valentino Rossi has done it in motorcycle racing.
If such fame, such publicity hadn't come from being the very best in a competitive field, there wouldn't be nearly enough story to justify an autobiography at such an early age.
But such fame did come about. And Rossi's story is one of living at the peak of a sport. It is a story of negeotiations involving fortunes. It is a story of dealing with large companies with an awful lot of money, of engineering, of pressure.
It's also a story of working with the Japanese. One story he tells is of the Japanese never saying no. I worked for a Japanese company. 'Maybe' means no. 'Yes' means maybe. 'Here it is' means yes.
All in all a delightful book.
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