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Giacomo Agostini: Champion of Champions |
Author: Mick Walker
Published: 2004-10-07 |
List price: $34.95
Our price: $23.07
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As of: October 08th, 2008 03:30:45 AM
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Customer comments on this selection.
 Defective book
By about page 65 I discovered the first of 16 blank pages. 8 places where the facing pages were blank. maybe mine is the only one but beware.
 A Massive Disappointment
I purchased this book with great anticipation; as a new convert to motorcycle road racing, I was eager to learn as much as possible about the lives and careers of some of history's most daring athletes, including the great Giacomo Agostini, who ruled the European Grand Prix circuits in the 1960s and 1970s aboard the fearsome MV Agusta bikes. So when I first saw Mick Walker's series on the great motorcycle champions, I was thrilled. Sadly, this book does not ever come to close to living up to my expectations. Mick Walker's biography is little more than a pasting together of magazine accounts from Agostini's career. What little there is of Mr. Walker's writing is flat, dull, and repetitive. The book's sole redemption is the selection of photographs--the dozens of photos are the reason I (generously) rate this book 2 stars.
Beyond the disappointment of spending money on a book that is not worth reading, the truly massive disappointment of this book is that it wasted a brilliant opportunity to provide English-language readers a biography of one of the world's greatest racers. Here's hoping that the failures of this book do not deter others from trying to record the lives of Agostini and his peers with the respect and effort they and their admirers deserve.
 A real gentleman
I watched Agostini run many times at Brands Hatch and Silverstone in the early 70's , he is a real gentleman as well as a great competitor and artist.
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