Reviews

Life to the Limit: My Autobiography by Jenson Button

tessacso's review against another edition

I love Formula One and I love books – so this one is the perfect match for me.
This was certainly an interesting book! I really loved the insights Jenson gave the reader. It couldn’t quite keep my attention – it was often just a list of his race classifications - but I finished it, nevertheless. The chapters are short, which is something I really love!
I love Jenson’s humour and he’s just such a likeable person. I haven’t actively followed him during his time in Formula One but I love the interview he does for Sky Sports F1.
Definitely recommend it to F1 fans!

mrninjaviking's review against another edition

4.0

As a lifelong Formula 1 fan, and an admirer of Jenson Button, this turned out to be a great read. More of Button's humor, which has come out in interviews and race radio transmissions, came out. And it was great insight to some of the behind the scenes wranglings of F1, and his relationship with his father (Papa Smurf). I'd go 4 1/2 stars on this, enjoying the book more than I expected.

alexjg42's review against another edition

4.0

Only pick it up if you're a fan. A lot of chapters focus on specific races and seasons so if you're not a fan it might not be the best reading material.

As a fan though I enjoyed reading it. There's a lot of little behind the scenes snippets that fills in the gaps about the things I've seen on TV/the media. My only gripe is that I hoped he would go into a bit more detail about his routines in the different stages of his career especially related to his fitness and training.

kseniasayu's review against another edition

emotional funny informative inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing medium-paced

5.0

charkie223's review against another edition

informative inspiring lighthearted relaxing medium-paced

4.25

Really interesting insight into an F1 driver's life

megansmith23's review against another edition

informative inspiring lighthearted fast-paced

4.5

Really enjoyed this! Jenson Button is a bit of a legend

alimalina's review against another edition

2.75

fun and compelling enough on its own. button does stumble around a bit when faces with the bigger than life figure of lewis hamilton. or so it seemed to me. 
still i love a good story about drunken shenanigans. 

eviecook0708's review against another edition

4.25

I'm quite new to F1 (only got into it around June of 2023), so I missed Jenson's career by a wide margin. This book was basically completely new information to me, then, and it was really good. It's always interesting to read about the life of someone who is so starkly different than yourself, but I thought it was especially cool to get the stories of his karting days and the technical talk about the formula cars. Those things are just so interesting to me, and it was all here. It had a conversational style that made it quite approachable, too. It also made me cry, which was completely unexpected. I just really enjoyed reading this and am hoping I'll enjoy other F1-related books just as much.

rosiegracee's review against another edition

3.0

Jenson Button is my all time favourite F1 driver, and although this book taught me a lot about the sport and I enjoyed this insight into his life, it just wasn’t written well and took me an age to get through. Granted he’s not an author, but there was a lot of going back and forth between events, mentioning something and going off on a complete tangent, and some stories that didn’t add anything. I would recommend this book if you are interested in Formula 1, but I would preface it by saying it’s not the best written.

mollyalderson's review against another edition

informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

This was really really interesting (surprise, surprise) ! I did think it was funny that Jenson tried to tell us he wasn't wealthy lol. But it was a really good read. So cool to hear in detail about his career, and of course his thoughts on certain people. Compared to Nigel's autobiography I think this was a bit more shallow, and I was a bit gutted he didn't talk more generally about F1 now/ when it was being written. It would be cool to hear what Jenson thinks about certain teams or drivers, it would offer extremely interesting insight.