Why don’t biography books explain thoughts and detail sometimes? The book “The Bus” Is a life story about the NFL hall of famer, Jerome Bettis (nicknamed the bus). Jerome wrote this book about his long journey to the Super Bowl. This book explains his life in and outside the football helmet. The Bus can be one of the best biography books you’ll ever read because the way it was written, I think was amazing.
One of the reasons this book is different from any other biography book is the beginning of the book doesn’t just start out when he was a kid. It started out with him in the AFC championship on the Steelers in 2005. In the game Jerome fumbles the ball and the other team, the Colts recovered it when it was a close game. Then to leave the suspense running, the next page then talks about his childhood. That made me want to read it more to get back the AFC championship part, and I almost wanted to flip through the pages to see what happened after the fumble.
In addition with the plotline unlike some biography books, Jerome wrote it so he explains what he thought at the time. For example when the Steelers quarterback, Ben Roethlisberger saw Jerome fumble the ball and the Colts recovered it, Ben barely tackled the guy who got the ball by the ankle. Jerome later explains the Ben is the best Quarterback anybody could have. The reason this is different from any other biography is because it might be written by a different person. So writer can’t explain how they felt or who they thought about somebody.
In conclusion I think this was one of the best books I’ve ever read. I don’t usually like biography books because they don’t always have as much detail. But this one was different. He really told people what he thought about things. This book was taking the reader on the inside of what it would be like hanging out with Jerome and how badly he wanted to win a super bowl. This is why I think the way it was written and organized is one of the best books I’ve ever read.
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