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Cool book!!!

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Just got it, it was on order at the library.

It's a great book, but the way he portrays team spirit is a bit too much like a competitive, non-graciously-professional sport such as football.
I like his writing style though, it is very 'smooth.' I think the addition of the perspectives of the other teams (i.e. not 1717) needed to be either be increased or removed, because they stick out a lot. This is from a literature standpoint, I liked hearing about the other teams a lot.

9.5/10

I'm glad we are getting some publicity.


Thaine

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Just finished it. It was like re-living the 2009 season for me. We were rookies that year and it was so easy to follow the timeline and remember where we were, what we overcame, and what we learned each step of the way.

1) It helped me realize I am not crazy and that other teams have all-nighters too.
2) It helped me re-live a great season and what I thought of as a great game.
3) It taught me about the engineering academy that I want to go visit when it's ready for teachers to learn.

This is not a good "pre-bed" book...I would put it down and my mind was completely spun up on FIRST, but certainly a great read. I ordered two copies for other people this afternoon. I'll pass my copy on to another team mentor until we've each had a chance to read it.

I may just have to order a copy for the administrator and our superintendent as well...couldn't hurt!

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I love this book just finished reading it over the weekend, Team 1717 had an inspirational season in 2009 and just to accomplish what they did was amazing especially being a team of "rookies" so to say.

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I didn't see that at all. It seemed completely normal / non-hostile to me.

I very much enjoyed the book - I was surprised at just how accurate it was. It's good to know just how hard an elite team works :)

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This is an excellent book! I am about halfway through, but so far it is great! Maybe thats because I love FIRST, or more probably because I love to read something I know about. :D

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Yay! I finally got a copy, although I'm going to save for the trip to St. Louis. :)
I hope more FRC literature keep popping up in the future, I haven't read it but I trusted it and just it's nice to have to suggest to friends to read (she got inspired to volunteer for an event, not ready to mentor yet.)

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I just got my copy from the library. So far, I'm liking it.

It's great to see FIRST get more exposure in all media forms.