Undisputed Truth: My Autobiography

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Undisputed Truth: My Autobiography

Undisputed Truth: My Autobiography

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I have read many books this year. In fact this is the 37th book I have read. I know people who have read more but most people I know haven’t read nearly as many and yes I’m bragging because I take pride in my reading because Jadakiss was right about you Libyans. At any rate I bring up the fact that I have read so many books just to say this was the most entertaining book I have read this year BAR NONE.

Then there is the incident involving Brad Pitt caught with the heavyweight’s ex-wife. That day he was in LA and was stunned to see her pull up with a blond man in the passenger seat. It was Brad Pitt. “You had to see the look on his face,” Tyson writes. “He looked like he was ready to receive his last rites. He also looked stoned out of his gourd.” Pitt begged Tyson, “Dude, don’t strike me, don’t strike me.” As a book I give this story four stars. Reading his "autobiography" makes me like the fighter/boxer in him, but I do NOT like the person.He made Mike believe in himself ….to be the best, he encouraged Mike to read great works by Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Shakespeare. Mike is a extremely well read man. As is no surprise, many of the portions of his life story were highly fascinating (let's face it-who wouldn't want to know the details of his life, both real and fabricated?); however, the editing of the book sort of took the steam out of the these sections. Why? They dragged on and on and on...well, you get the picture. Another bright guy who happens to have a speech impediment (like Stallone) so people think he's retarded, but he's actually quite intelligent.

Road Trip Travel Games Activities, Delightful Easy Puzzles Book: Includes Large-Print Word Search, Forest Scavengers Hunt, Dot To Dot, Hidden Pictures ... Crossword Puzzles For Kids, Seniors And Adult Words! No one knows the importance of their impact more than a baby born on June 30, 1966 in Brooklyn, New York. From the moment he set foot in the world, the stars had aligned differently. To be told “you ain’t shit!” or “you’re worthless” and “you’re so dumb and stupid like me.” Is there any wonder the trials and tribulations the ex-undisputed heavyweight champion of the world, Michael Gerard Tyson, better known as Mike Tyson, had a rather chaotic life he’s led?

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A memoir like this doesn’t come around very often. Much of what we often see does not peel off the layers. Undisputed Truth is inside-out. Don’t miss it! Love him of hate him, Mike Tyson is one interesting man, with one hell of a story to tell. I'm not even going to bury the led here, Undisputed Truth may just be the best autobiography I have ever read. It's truly a brutally honest look into the life and mind of a scared, troubled, and more often than not, frightening man. Every public incident is brought up here, the verbal abuse of reporters, the rape conviction (which Tyson proves, to me at least, to have been innocent), the prison time, the ear biting, the divorces, the face tattoo, and everything in between. If you're offended by language, you might want to avoid this one as Tyson drops F and N bombs like it's World War II. It's certainly not a reason to skip over this one, but will turn some people off. Undisputed Truth was excellent, but it's not for everybody. The amount of F bombs, MF bombs, and N bombs is staggering. Sloman has done a phenomenal job of capturing Tyson's voice and relating all of the anecdotes and inner thoughts of this complicated and troubled man. Chechnya was an amazing place. As soon as I got there, they gave me a machine gun. I was nervous as hell. I didn’t particularly want to shoot no goddamn gun but, hey, when in Rome do as the Romans do.”

Sports Illustrated Magazine July 7 1997 Madman! A Crazed Mike Tyson Disgraces Himself and His sporth Both Fighters I must congratulate the writer, sorry ghost writer for putting this story together, a massive read, incredible life story, the honesty of this book, sadly does not effect my thoughts on his character and personality. There are some hard-hitting truth sections describing life in the US inner city ghettos, where a lot of males get killed before even turning 16. After living in Singapore, a man can easily lose touch with that kind of reality and become soft. This was a nice wake up call. Whoa. Wow. The biggest personalities of my generation, the people who had the largest cultural impact, are arguably: The book is written in such a way that you feel the authenticity of Mike's voice, even though he isn't the writer. It's his story, but the writer, Larry Sloman is excellent at his craft and allows us to experience this book as if Tyson is sitting with the reader and recounting his life and crazy times. If you followed Tyson's career, you undoubtedly remember some of the incidents spoken about and have probably seen some of the wild interviews that are finely detailed here.After finishing Tyson's autobiography, I have to admit...I wanted to give it a better score, but I just can't bring myself to do it. At the beginning of the book I was quite interested-Tyson was admitting faults and openly blaming himself for certain aspects of his life. Sadly, this self-introspection must have been brief, because after discussion of his adolescence in Brooklyn, the book devolved into a "I had a highly publicized event occur in my life, and this is why it is not my fault." Don't get me wrong-the book could be quite candid at times, but overall it seemed to be a study in self-pity. Il problema del libro è che dopo il match con Holyfield il 28 giugno 1997 i combattimenti finiscono e rimane la sola cronaca degli eccessi, dei night club, delle orge, del consumo di droga, delle comparsate per racimolare qualche dollaro visto che il malloppo è stato sniffato, fumato, trombato, convertito in abiti e gioielli pacchiani, in un parco auto da sceicco. Poi ci sono i debiti con il fisco e quelli con la moglie lampo, che in meno di un anno (prima del divorzio pilotato dalla madre), gli ha fatto un culo come nessun pugile è mai stato in grado di fargli. Se la prima parte si leggeva da sola, la seconda, nelle pastoie legali di varie accuse di stupro e nei tentativi di disintossicarsi procede con una lentezza esasperante. Tyson cerca di inventarsi una nuova vita con camei al cinema, uno spettacolo teatrale e vari contratti pubblicitari in giro per il mondo, ma ovunque vada, senza cocaina non riesce neppure a fare due passi. Tyson è completamente inattendibile, capace di smentire con i fatti tutte le sue dichiarazioni. È emblematica la conversione di sola facciata all’Islam (ispirata verosimilmente a quella di Cassius Clay) riassumibile nel motto: Alla fica e la coca.

We all thought he was invincible until that Buster Douglas fight. This book gives insight into how he lost his edge, what fighting meant to him, and how the fight game spilled into his everyday life. It's interesting that we admonish our children not to fight, we deplore fighting in society at large, yet we shower boxers with fame, adulation, and money for beating hell out of each other. Tyson shows us the monsters we create. Undisputed Truth isn’t so much about Tyson, the boxer or the famous as it is about Mike, the person inside. Its honesty and rawness is unparalleled for an autobiography. His brutality on people he measured dishonest with him is blunt as much as he is on himself. During his boxing days I was never an admirer, yet through this revealing memoir I’m beginning to understand him, and I think I’m beginning to admire the person that wants to be. Money makes people do strange things, and the more money you make, the more people act a damn fool, and with Mike, that was all too familiar. Everyone wanted a piece of Iron Mike Tyson’s money—damn the man, just fork over the money! Unfortunately, having all those millions and probably close to billions, he’s not that wealthy anymore. In fact, he’s broke compared to what he was then. Had he made smarter decisions and better staff working for him, instead of the entourage he sometimes hung around, he’d be living on easy street now.All across the USA, people are showing up dead. The deaths don't appear to be connected in any way until one particular death occurs and gets the Secretary of Defense's attention. He arranges for a task force to investigate.



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