( 8 reviews )
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( 1 of 1 found this review helpful ) Posted: Jun 6 2009
Every so often I find a book that actually opens my eyes. Craig Lambert's "Mind Over Water" is one of those books. When I was first given it, I wondered what a memoir about rowing would have to say to me when the closest I'd ever gotten to rowing was riding in a glass-bottomed boat one summer in childhood. Within the first three pages, I understood. And I was hooked. It's hard to call a meditative memoir a page-turner, but this one is. I hated putting the book down, so hungry was I for Lambert's next graceful thought, his next provocative insight, his next flash of wicked humor. Yes, this little gem of a book is about the fascinating world of rowing and rowers, it's about feats -- both large and small -- of heroic and brilliant athleticism; but it's really about so much more. It's about the stuff that makes us alive.
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Posted: Dec 26 2008
This is a beautiful piece of work that brings life down to earth (water). And in this life, everyone wins. Everytime.
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Posted: Feb 1 2008
Over the top and over writen! I couldn't read more than half of it. I'll never get those hours back! I know I never want him in my boat, if he talks the way he writes!
