Bode: Go Fast, Be Good, Have Fun

This is a really interesting quick read. Bode is a fascinating character. The first 53 pages of the book mention little about ski racing and focus instead on Bode's family background and outdoors lifestyle. He comes from a clan of rugged outdoors maverick. The press has described his lifestyle as austere, growing up in a cabin in the woods with no electricity or running hot water. In the book, Bode describes his childhood... Read Full Review

Bode, love him or hate him, tells it like it is. The complete opposite of politically correct, he is, in this interesting, hallarious, insightful autobiography, truthful in the way most people have forgotten how to be.

I am only a third-of-the-way into this book, and my sides are splitting. This guy is a great wit, and possesses considerable intellect, which has to be some sort of a salute to his "home-schooling." Mirth is incorporated here into all of his irreverent statements, and there is a little bit of Bode in all of us, at least in myself and my choice of friends! Since this book predicates the infamous "60 Minutes" profile, which... Read Full Review

Back in the mid-'60s, when I was a young teacher at a small Miami prep school, Bode Miller's father, Woody, came south for his junior year (presumably with warm weather tennis in mind). I got to know and like him, so I was both surprised and intrigued to learn, at the time of the 2002 Olympics, that the new star, Bode Miller, was his son and that Woody and Bode's mother Jo had brought their kids up in a cabin back in the northern... Read Full Review

2005 overall world cup champion Bodie Miller was raised in New Hampshire in a rural cabin without electricity or indoor plumbing, so his roots are as unconventional as his rise to become a top sports star. Go Fast, Be Good, Have Fun is an autobiography which recounts his philosophy in life as much as his sports experience: he tells of the world of competitive skiing and how he bucked conventional wisdom to rise to the top,... Read Full Review