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The Doper Next Door

My Strange and Scandalous Year on Performance-Enhancing Drugs

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The Doper Next Door

By: Andrew Tilin
Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
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What happens to a regular guy who dopes? Surprised to learn that pro athletes aren’t the only ones taking performance-enhancing substances, journalist Andrew Tilin goes in search of the average juicing Joe, hoping to find a few things out: Why would normal people take these substances? Where do folks get them? Does the stuff really work?

But these controversial drugs often silence their users, and so his queries might have gone unanswered had Tilin not looked in the mirror and succumbed to curiosity. Soon wielding syringes, this fortysomething husband and father of two children becomes the doper next door.

During his yearlong odyssey, Tilin is transformed. He becomes stronger, hornier, and aggressive. He wades into a subculture of doping physicians, real-estate agents, and aging women who believe that Tilin’s type of legal hormone-replacement therapy is the key to staying young, and he often agrees.

He also lives with the price paid for renewed vitality, worrying about his health, marriage, and cheating ways as an amateur bike racer. And all along the way, he tells us what doping is really like: empowering and scary.

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Great idea for a book but not enough time was spent examining the performance enhancing effect of the drugs on sport, there was way too much psychoanalysis of his childhood & middle aged life.

interesting but neurotic

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so much more than the story of a self confessed doper. I was disappointed at first but then found I thoroughly enjoyed this story in its entirety. well worth a listen. the narration is in my opinion, excellent.

not all what I expected

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I got through this quickly ... clearly I enjoyed it, not least because I am a cyclist at a similar life stage as the author. I would have like him to experiment more and take it a stage further but understand why he didn't . I would recommend

interesting insightful and compelling

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Listened to the entire book in one go, and enjoyed it. Some parts of the story I found the protagonist irritating, but that goes to show how well it has been written.
After listening I discovered that Andrew Tillin has since been killed in an accident, very sad news, and gives the book a different feel.

Very well written and personal account

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interesting read good detail and content if at bit rambling at times. often disappears on an aside of pointless detail

good read

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