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 When assigned school reading, one is quick to judge it with a negative connotation. But this assignment was different, it allowed an individual to incorporate his/her interest or hobbies into the reading. For me this is a main reason on why i read it in its entirety. I felt connected to the book by relating it to my own life. I would recommend this book too any avid sports maniac, or one with a true love for reading.Then the book shows how sports and cancer can be so closely related, the drive for one another. It reminds me all too much of my cousin and what she went through with her cancer,I can only imagine what type of hero Lance Armstrong can be. " I thought I knew what fear was, until I hear the words You have cancer,"(70). It shows how life can be taken at an instance, he then refers to "Life is long-hopefully,"(214). which also eludes to the previous point. But then tells "Pain is temporary,". No matter how much pain he was in he kept fighting and that is why he is alive today.