Book Bargain

elvis6093

I had the misfortune of browsing in "The Works' bookshop yesterday, you know the one - the bookshop with a patron reading age of seven. Having resisted an impulse buy of a biography on Levi Bellfield (seriously would anyone actually buy this ?) I was leaving the shop when I noticed a pile of Laurent Fignon's autobiography 'We were young and care free', reduced
from £12.99 to £2.99. Any book which has the phrase ' My first official race can only be described as a masterpiece' is worth £2.99 IMHO

KnightOfTheLongTights

ooh, jolly good, ta for that ...

Monty Dog

Fignon's book is a good read too, not some sycophantic trawl.

Beatmaker

which store were you in, out of interest?

LeicesterLad

Leicester one has it, if anybody cares.

shaunos

Thanks for the tip-off. Got a copy in Aylesbury at the weekend. Looking forward to a good read......

KnightOfTheLongTights

they've got a website which makes it look liek you can order stuff - but it's sh * te

calvjones

Just finished this. It's bloody great.

I'd forgotten how massively he'd crushed Hinault in 1984' 'As he attacked on the lower slopes of the Alpe, I couldn't help but laugh' :shock:

A multiple M-SR and GT winner. Not many of those about.

KnightOfTheLongTights

calvjones wrote:

Just finished this. It's bloody great.

I'd forgotten how massively he'd crushed Hinault in 1984' 'As he attacked on the lower slopes of the Alpe, I couldn't help but laugh' :shock:

there's a great bit in Slaying the Badger about this stage

Simonhi

Slaying the badger has just arrived from Amazon !!!

JustinLeeAtkinson

They had the book still in Lincoln's The Works yesterday. Plus they also had a hard back Tour de France book which came out in May. Features every Tour until 2010 and has lots of glossy pictures. Reduced from £20 to £3.99. Cracking buy also.

theknowledge

Thanks for the heads up. Got one from Bath this week. Will be my reading material for the evenings on my hols next week.