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Cavendish (2014)

by Mark Cavendish(Favorite Author)

3.78 of 5 Votes: 4

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

People's Press

review 1: This book won't win the Booker Prize but is clearly written and gives an interesting insight into life as a professional cyclist in the 'post-drugs'era. His comments on Lance Armstrong are especially interesting. Cavendish is a hard to please perfectionist who has a big ego but his results make his actions necessary & justified.. His talent and ability to suffer are unquestioned. He still finds it hard to accept that Team UK 'blew' the Olympic RR by stupidly sticking to a plan with no flexibility or spontaneity.Why didn't Cav or Brad or anyone go with the break on Box Hill if they felt able to do so? It'll be interesting to see how he develops at OPQL in the future and just how many races he wins, especially with such alternative talent in the team as Boonen. The most im... moreportant lesson from the book is less to do with cycling and more to do with the thought the every 'bad boy' eventually needs a good woman and a family to calm him down and give added purpose to life.
review 2: I enjoy watching Cav race but I can't say I enjoyed his second book very much. Sure, an ego is required for his position in the pelaton but that doesn't make hearing all about that ego very enjoyable. He mostly gives insight to many of his awkward interviews and outlines all the backstories of his career and it's trials and tribulations. Although I appreciated the insight into all that was happening in his life and on his team's bus I don't feel that the book provided enough of a story or message to justify an entire book. The book ends bluntly with an odd thought about what might be written on his tombstone and how "family man" should be included. I will continue to enjoy watching Cav mix it up in the sprints, but I don't feel like I know him any better than I did before I read his book. Maybe the book feels like a letdown compared to more book-worthy stories like Tyler Hamilton's book, David Miller's book, and of course Bradley Wiggin's book. Naturally, the first two were more scandalous in that they were tell-all drug conspiracy books, and the Brad's book outlines his painful, lonely journey to yellow in the Tour de France and gold in the Olympics. Hey, I'm just realizing I've read a lot of cycling books... less

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