The Rider
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- ISBN13: 9781582342900
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A literary sports classic, finally available in the U.S.
Originally published in Holland in 1978, The Rider became an instant cult classic, selling over 100,000 copies. Brilliantly conceived and written at a break-neck pace, it is a loving, imaginative, and, above all, passionate tribute to the art of bicycle road racing.
Not a dry history of the sport, The Rider is beloved as a bicycle odyssey, a literary masterpiece that describes in painstaking detail one 150-kilometer race in a mere 150 pages. The Rider is the essential book for bike lovers as well as the arm-chair sports enthusiast.
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I had high hopes for this book, and truly felt it deserved only 2 stars. But, since there are not many cycling “novels” on the market, I felt compelled to issue a 3 star rating.
Just like the perennial movie that wins “Picture of the Year”, and you shake your head and question, “WHY”…this is no different. Granted, the leader does offer the reader an occasional, brilliant passage or two that perhaps only a seasoned cyclist can directly tell to, but persons are much too few and far between.
What’s between is a mix of weird writing dialogue that…reasonably regularly… not only doesn’t make sense, but he tends to bounces back in time to previous tales, and it gave (this) reader a bit of difficulty in not only following the proposed tale at hand, but staying all ears enough to end the book.
Rather disappointed.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
I know I am the minority here, but I just can’t rave about this book. I like bike racing, like tactics and all of that, but something just didn’t click for me with this one. In my opinion, it wasn’t worth the money.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
If you are a huge fan of bike racing and the Tour de France (before Lance) then this book may appeal to you. It’s written in the first person and is the authors’s thoughts as he battles his way through a fictional 100 mile one day racing classic. It was written in Dutch and translated into English, and perhaps suffers because the language is not the leader’s proposed words. It’s not exacting exciting prose, nor drama. I ride a lot and I admit that while the book was appealing as a creative writing exercise (and a novel thought), that reading “It’s not about the Bike” was far more appealing. If you have already read the latter, then try Samuel Abt.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
This is an incredible work, considering that Krabbe is a non-cyclist. Every time I read “The Rider” I am impressed by his ability to capture the experiences of bicycle racing.
If you are a competitive cyclist, or just a cycling enthusiast, Krabbe’s work is a must-read.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Anyone who’s raced bikes will readily identify with the main character in this tale. You’ll stay with him all the way through his race, cheering him on.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5