Muscle: Confessions of an Unlikely Bodybuilder List Price: $13.99 Price: $73.29 Read Reviews

From The Back Cover:

At age 26, scrawny, Oxford-educated Samuel Fussell entered a YMCA gym in New York to escape the terrors of big city life. Four years and 80 lbs. of firm, bulging muscle later, he was competing for bodybuilding titles in the “iron Mecca” of Southern California–so weak from intense training and starvation he could barely walk. MUSCLE is the harrowing, often hilarious chronicle of Fussell’s divine obsession, his search for identity in a bizarre, eccentric world of “health fascists,” “gym bunnies” and “muscleheads”–and his devout, single-minded acceptance of illness, pain, nausea, and steroid-induced rage in his quest for the holy grail of physical perfection.

This is the story of a guy who ran away to become a bodybuilder. He gave up everything, including his health to become as big as possible. He finally found out that too much of anything is a bad thing. The book is funny and witty and shows you what a person can go through to reach a certain level of bodybuilding. Overall I liked the book. If your into bodybuilding this is a must read.