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 It's OK September 2, 2001
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
The photo's are great, and the design is OK. The text is very authoritive, however I would have found it more compelling if it had been written in a more objective manner. The author sounds as if he's (understandably) overwhelmed by it all. Still - A good book and worth the money ...
 Looks great, doesn't handle too well June 25, 2001
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Here we have a fascinating story, lavishly illustrated, and backed up by copious facts and figures. But I am a little tired of this "just-good-enough" style of sportswriting. There must be people who are able to write well and intelligently about bike racing. Shame Haynes couldn't find one. Everybody oohs and aahs over the photos and checks out how good a book looks on the shelf , but it is the text which makes a great book. Five-star pics, three-star content, no stars for style.
 The best Joey biog, by a distance June 22, 2001
lenniemannion@hotmail.com (Belfast)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Easily the best of the books on your man Joey so far. Most of the rest have been a catalogue of his racing career, but this one shows the man in far more depth. According to The Mirror newspaper, even Joey's son Gary called it 'the best tribute you can get. Every last detail is true and the photos are absolute class.' If it's convincing enough for Gary, it's good enough for me, too.
A superb tribute to the great man June 17, 2001
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
A book written with obvious fondness for its subject. Sometimes moving, often funny, it captures the spirit of one of sport's most enigmatic figures -- who by all accounts few people got to know well. Great photographs, too
Good one! June 16, 2001
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
...He's got Bob McMillan of Honda on board, as well as Joey's family behind him, and it reads great! Yeah, and the pics are glorious too. A fitting epitaph for a great racer.
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