Great Read!!!

[SurfinAmy]

Can't put it down, almost read the entire book in one day....

If you want to read a really interesting, informative, humorous book check it out - not to be missed IMHO!!!!

It's called Muscle: Confessions of an Unlikely Bodybuilder by Samuel Wison Fussell

"...Samuel Wison Fussell's fascinating account of the bizarre world of bodybuilding and his four obsessive years in quest of the perfect body....
Muscle is a penetrating inside look - sometimes wildly funny, sometimes wrenching and poignant, always unsparingly honest........

Fussell leads us into a strange subculture, part puritan, part P.T. Barnum, whose themes - the reinvention of self, growth at whatever cost, the seeking after perfection - are quintessentially American. In this odyssey, as much spiritual as physical, the units of measurement that determine value and success are different, but the gym is not so far removed from the bedroom or the boardroom.

Fussell details the incredibly demanding daily regimen that gave him eighty added pounds of flesh and muscle in four years: agonizing, endlessly repetitive exercises, prodigious quantities of food and vitamins, massive steroid injections.
He portrays unforgettably the colorful rogues and shaved, pumped up gym rats who became his fast friends......."

-Amy