California book buyers launch class action for fraud over Lance Armstrong's autobiography

Lance Armstrong has lied to us so much,
I'm starting to doubt whether he ever
landed on the moon at all...

So after two tv shows are we really any nearer to knowing the truth?
Ok, he doped but there is a lot he didn't say.
If the movie happens what story are they going to tell?
Possibly a poison chalice to the actor who plays him. Who would want to see it? Could be a massive flop.

LOUSE Armstrong!!!

Enuff said!!

I gave my books to Oxfam - though they are unlikely to shift em, ever - I put the DVDs in the trash.

The guy is a complete and utter shite bag.

Everything he has ever done should be expunged from the records and he should be forgotten, completely, as the biggest sporting fraud ever - which is exactly what he is.

Maybe him and that stupid tw*t Phil Liggett should start a Save The Louse fund????

Good company for each other - one's a complete idiot, the other's a hopeless liar.

I agree that when I read it I thought that he wasn't a particularly likeable character. I don't think he ever painted himself as one. I wonder how many of them are given how single minded you have to be to compete at that level. I remember watching those programmes with James Cracknell going to the pole and thinking the same about him. To be the sort of person who competes at that level, drugs or no drugs, you have to be prepared to make it more important than everything else it seems. Most people aren't prepared to do that.

I wonder how many copies Amazon have got to shift ?

I am pleased that others thought the same as me (bikecellar & The Rumpo Kid) most people I talk to say the book was great, inspirational etc. I thought c**t. I am not even sure why! I can accept that you have to be hard, committed, single minded, selfish even to succeed in a sport like cycling and this means you will upset people but I will probably read it again, and enjoy it more knowing he is a cheat Does that mean I have to pay more money

It does make you think lying was just a daily routine for LA...mind you give me $100mill and Id prob tell a few porkies...

I'm off down the small claims court see if I can get my money back

If as and when cycling racing is clean, someone is going to write a book about this whole sorry period and could quite rightly call it "Its Not About the Bike". The authors biggest problem would be working out exactly when in cycle racings history to begin his/her work. Armstrong is the icing on the cake and hopefully the curtain closer too.

As I read this, both those books are on the floor right behind me supporting the fan at an angle in front of my turbo trainer, I can remember thinking what a nasty prick this guy is, when I read them, it's all very sad, he would have been a great rider without the cheating and bullying, but he "did it his way"

You'd think, with all that sunshine in California, they'd get out more?

Errrm, how much will the plaintifs get back if they win - a fiver.

Personally I liked the spoof sign that appeared in an Australian library recently stating that they'd moved all the LA books from non-fiction to the fiction section: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21115720

I decided that Lance was a wrong 'un from reading this book I will keep my copy... the c**t can keep the money

Not sure this has any merit TBH. I've never been an Armstrong fan, always suspected he (and 'most everyone else) was doping but still the vitriol is starting to get a bit weird now. Lets put the pitchforks away and move on to better things.

I've a copy of the book. How do I get my money back?

Taking the hero and his bikel. Now it turns out the hero is fake, the bike should be the hero! Coming to think about it, maybe the bike was fake as well. Maybe it wasn't a Trek after all. A Lightspeed as an Eddy Merckx (Ref. Bike!, p. 175), maybe a LeMond as a Trek?

My "favourite" book : The Playboy Interviews.

http://innercitymobility.blogspot.de/2012/09/book-review-playboy-issue.html

Bought this book with high hopes instead I got LA, O.J.Simpson and others and not a single picture. I also want my money back.

I'm all for kicking Armstrong while he is down (at least for as long as he holds back from telling the whole story, and until he makes good the damage he has done to those who told the truth.) But surely the claimants would only have a case if they can prove that "It’s Not About The Bike" was actually about a bike?

I once thought about thinking that I might want to think about buying that book. I demand my day in court and some money from him......Just another PR stunt.

The best review on Amazon so far has to be this

A truly remarkable debut novel by someone whose previous background would not have suggested such talent. It is humbling to think of him sat up all night creating this fantastic tale for us all as he waited for the drugs to wear off so he might sleep............. It really isn't about the bike is it Lance?.