Skating for the Gold

by Chip Lovitt

Book Overview

As the 1988 Winter Olympics approaches, two young American figure skating champions, Tara Lipinski and Michelle Kwan, prepare themselves for the ultimate showdown. Skating for the gold gives fans a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671016792
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: Simon Spotlight Entertainment
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.4" x 4.3"

Customer Reviews

Awesome

I personally thought this was a great book. It did have a lot of technical things, but there was a glossary as well. It had a lot of narration, but it also had some stuff in the skaters' eyes as well. There was just enough writing, but some pictures as well. There were featured chapters on each skater, but ones with them together. This book is a great buy if you want to find out about a competitive skater's life, or just find out about Tara Lipinski and Michelle Kwan's lives.

Not fiction nor fantasy, but a very helpful book.

I am a figure skater, I have been for 4 years now, and I am not reading this book, I am studying it. I think there is excellent advice and quotes that help me to realize why I skate, not to win, but have fun. Skating is as much physical as it is mental. I think this book really helps people to see the pressure skaters face before competing and how many people are depending on them to win. This book itself should take home the gold.

A Gold Medal of Excellence for this Work

I was quite impressed with the deep metaphor used throughout the novel. The author used the metaphor of the ice skate to symbolize how we must shape the world for the better. Just as the blade of the skates skims across the cold and unaccepting ice of the rink, mankind must skim across the world, leaving a trail of happiness edged by cold hard steel. The zamboni that cleans off the ice, symbolizes negative forces that serves to erase all that we have created. Our dreams of gold and silver as shattered, just like Nancy Kerigan's knee years ago. I love the Olympics and I love how the author integrates these wonderful games into his work. The only problem with this book are the two main characters. The author has gone too far with these characters. They do not seem realistic. Sometimes authors can be too creative, this is apparant in the characters of Tara and Michelle. However, I recommend this book as a guide for everyday life.

Very Good!

This book is great. It tells lots of fun facts and funny stories. Very Good! Tara Lipinski or Michelle Kwan fan? Gotta have!

It was a pretty good book!!!!!!!

It was a good book to display the inside lives of the two athletes. I think this made up my mind who I went for at the Olympics!