Book Review: Eric Lindros' "Pursue Your Goals"
Our first book review. Yet another shining moment in the history of this website.
by Dave McAwesome
Six years ago, English literature welcomed a shining new star to the constellation of published authors: National Hockey League standout Eric Lindros.
"Hi. I'm Eric Lindros," begins the refreshingly direct autobiography, Pursue Your Goals. The title itself is both a delicious pun and clue that we may be looking at the next Booker Prize winner.
Lindros takes us on a roller coaster ride in the life of a man who has faced absolutely zero adversity whatsoever save that of a few taunts from beer-swilling fans.
The mantra-like positivism espoused throughout the book encourages the targeted reader (either an eight-year-old or an embittered website owner) to pursue one's goals. A positive outlook, he says. Ah yes, the naive, unsullied worldview of a millionaire athlete.
I'm being negative, Lindros would tell me in one of his rare lucid moments between repeated concussions. On a more positive note, the 40-page tome fits easily on most bookshelves.
There is a softer side to Lindros. On the day he was picked #1 overall by the Quebec Nordiques (a team, for various reasons, Lindros asked repeatedly not to draft him), he writes, "Brett (his brother) and I got into a cab. I collapsed onto him and let my emotions, and tears, flow." How touching. There's Captain Adversity for ya: drafted by a pro team at only 18 years of age, millions of dollars a signature away, a prince's life to be handed him--if not by the Nordiques, then by the Flyers a year later.
When life hands you lemons, goes the saying, make lemonade, or in Lindros' case, throw a tantrum until life hands you the lemonade you demanded in the first place.
I don't use this word often, but I use it here: hero. Did I say hero? I meant baby.
Read this and other exciting titles in the Positively for Kids line from Taylor Publishing such as Things Change by Troy Aikman and Heart of Gold by Kerri Strug, her follow up book to the award winning Pixie Power: How Us Freakish Subhumans Escape Evil Dwarf Warlords to Hide Amongst Humans and Become Olympic Gymnasts.
