The Bookworm Critique

I loved this book.

I figured it was probably best to get that bit out of the way early. That way, we all know where we stand, and we can just get on with talking about why. Or maybe, I have done it so that in the course of writing the next few hundred words I can figure out why myself, because right at this moment I couldn't give you a particularly convincing reason.

This is not one of motorsport's 'great untold stories'. Alessandro Zanardi was an icon of his era even before he had the accident that made him famous outside of the motorsport arena. It's a great shame that it takes something like that for guys like Zanardi to be noticed by the wider world ­ but you could probably say the same thing about Lance Armstrong, whose name will be forever prefixed with 'cancer survivor' in the mainstream press even though he has spent the better part of the past decade winning Tours de France the way that Michael wins World Championships. Not everyone likes sport, but they do love a battler.