Every Second Counts

Recently, I read a book called ‘Every Second Counts,’ written by Lance Armstrong with Sally Jenkins. I recommend this book for the following two reasons: It gives readers the chance to look back to the past; and readers realize how important it is to be thankful to someone who they rely on. This book is a non-fiction written by a champion cyclist who overcame the cancer he had. He mentioned many places in the book that he learned a lot of significant things throughout his life after the cancer such as taking the risks, be thankful of given second chance and out of all, aiming for the best and faith in yourself. Once Armstrong faced the death right in front of him (or ‘pitched back’ according to Armstrong), he have decided to do the thing that he could do the best with all the effort putting together. Also, by reading this very inspiring book, we get to recognize the value of our closest people. How precious they are and how hard it is to imagine our lives without them. For Armstrong, I strongly believe that it would have been extremely hard for him to get over all that hard time without his families. He claimed that now the prominent reason for him to be alive is his ‘wife’ and ‘children.’ They were the motivation for him to be in fit, stay healthy and to be the champion. For those of people who want to be cheered and heart-warmed, it’s good to read this book because it’s one of an amazing book I’ve read so far.

There are two reasons why I don’t recommend this book to you. For one, if you are not interested in knowing other people’s lives do not read it. Basically, this whole book is a story about life of Lance Armstrong. It has nothing to do with humors and adventures. The cycling competition, his struggling with cancer…it contains lot of repetition too. It could get quite boring as you read. Secondly, I don’t recommend this book because it was fairly hard to follow. If you also enjoy all those writing techniques and styles of the author, this book is not to be recommended. During the reading, I did realize that the events are happening by the time order. However, there was not enough transition to understand that. So if the readers don’t catch it, it could be sort of confusing at time to time. I would say it might get a bit frustrating. It definitely shows that Armstrong is not a professional writer. (But a wonderful cyclist!)