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French Revolutions (Unabridged) [Audio Download]

by Tim Moore (Author), Andrew Wincott (Narrator)
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  • Listening Length: 10 hours and 6 minutes
  • Program Type: Audiobook
  • Version: Unabridged
  • Publisher: Whole Story Audiobooks
  • Audible Release Date: 6 Oct 2009
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B002SQ8222
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (74 customer reviews)

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It's not easy cycling the Tour de France. Battling it out with old men on butchers' bikes and pursued by cattle, Tim Moore soon finds himself resorting to narcotic assistance and systematic overeating.

Accounts of his suffering and chicanery, and those encountered in the race's history, are interwoven through a look at France's preparations for the most famous cycling event in the world.

©2001 Tim Moore; (P)2009 WF Howes Ltd
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33 of 35 people found the following review helpful
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Format:Paperback
As a keen cyclist (well, 50 miles a week) and a huge Tour de France fan, I was looking forward to this as a substitute for Channel 4's absent coverage of the race this year. What I didn't expect was that as well as being an informative, inspirational and - yes - moving account of a splendidly hopeless amateur's attempt to "do the Tour", French Revolutions would also turn out to be perhaps the funniest book I've ever read. My wife banned me from reading it in bed because I kept her awake with my helpless giggling, and reading it on a crowded train one morning was a BIG mistake.
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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
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Format:Paperback
Having run out of books on holiday i picked up my father's copy of 'French Revolutions'. I expected any book my dad owned to be heavily detailed on group sets and bottom brackets, and of little intest to the casual cyclist. How wrong was I. You don't need to know anything about the tour, the book is laugh out loud funny, unputdownable. The acheivement of any man who can ride this incredable race is hammered home, there is no sporting acheivement on earth like this one. However what really makes the book good is the way it draws in the reader, everyone's had the 5year old in the park experience of riding, but few can express it as hilariously as Tim Moore. The book is packed with dry humour and an author people can relate to, 'French Revolutions' has to be in my top ten of books. Go out - Buy it!
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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
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This is one of the most entertaining books I've read in a long time. Moore gives an account of his journey around the Tour de France route in a most witty and comical way, his style is fresh and personal. I loved his interesting anecdotes and oddments of information about the Tour and its riders, it a is very humbling book to read as the author has such as obvious respect for the Tour riders and I can't help but totally agree. I am neither a Tour de France fanatic or a great cyclist but I still enjoyed this book immensely, and from now on shall be watching 'le tour' in a very different light. I can't recommend 'French Revolutions' enough.
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Like a funnier Bill Bryson on wheels
I loved this book. It both made me want to get on my bike and ride to France, and laugh out loud a lot. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Tim Moss
Simply the best
This is the best adventure challenge book I've read, period. Reading about someone skiing to the Pole or rowing the Atlantic or whatever is all fine and dandy but not very... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Mcneill5
The worse book I've read in a long time!
I started this book in 2007 and gave up. I then started it again in 2011 and managed to read it all the way through. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Yakker
Brutal language about a cheat ride
I was given this book for Christmas 2011; a `new' paperback sold in a charity shop for £1.50.
Moore did his ride in June 2000. Read more
Published 5 months ago by RCP
Laughed out loud on a beach...prepare your partner!
I have read this book a few times...the first time was pre kids, on a lounger and my wife kept having her "sun time" interupted by me...."...just let me read you this bit... Read more
Published 6 months ago by Neil Kerry
Loved it...
I've lost count of the number of copies I've bought of this book. I lend them, don't get them back; and when the urge hits to re-read it (it's that good) I have to buy again. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Si
Moore like this please
I think those who gave this book a poor rating were either expecting a technical book about cycling or the tour de france or something like lance armstrongs books. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Captain Kirk
I expected more of Moore
I admire Tim Moore for what he achieved, but I didn't really think this was a great book. As someone else point's out, despite what he may think, Moore is no Bill Bryson. Read more
Published 8 months ago by dafyddp
cycling the tour de france
Very amusing and entertaining story... would maybe encourage some of us to get out and attempt something similar if not the same.Worth the money.
Published 9 months ago by barney
French Revolutions
Great read, love to cycle myself and an avid fan of 'The Tour 'found myself laughing at the cycling disasters incurred on his journey and can relate to a lot of them !! Read more
Published 9 months ago by Jane @ New mIlls
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