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Undisputed Truth: My Autobiography

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La cronaca degli incontri è appassionante, ma è inframezzata sempre più spesso dagli eccessi privati di Tyson. Così spietato sul ring così sprovveduto nella gestione di guadagni, amicizie, sentimenti. Si contorna di uno stuolo di profittatori infinito e poi si vota al consumo smodato di stupefacenti. L’erba gli serve per attutire gli effetti della coca che lui combina al consumo di whisky. Le sostanze alimentano la sua sessuomania che per esser tenuta ritta ha bisogno di Chalis e Viagra. At first, all I could think of when I saw the size of this book was, well, look at the freakin’ size of this book! Mike Tyson didn’t want no weak, scrawny-ass autobiography, he needed one as big as he is.

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. The descriptions of entire seasons spent cruising around on big yachts with legit self-created billionaires and the accounts of life in Moscow...well, eye-opening to say the least.Voleva formare il pugile perfetto, un guerriero che terrorizzasse gli avversari prima ancora di salire sul ring. Mi addestrò a una ferocia assoluta, dentro e fuori dal quadrato. Era ciò di cui avevo bisogno all’epoca. Ero troppo insicuro, spaventato, traumatizzato dai maltrattamenti subiti da piccolo. Detestavo l’umiliazione di sentirmi una vittima. Bullied as a boy in the toughest, poorest neighbourhood in Brooklyn, Tyson grew up to become one of the most thrilling and ferocious boxers of all time—and the youngest heavyweight champion ever.

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. Sometimes we like to conceive of lust as love because we think it feels so good it has to be love. Love is sacrifice, love is worth dying and killing for, history proves that. But, we must have some kind of moral compass in our journey through life. All enjoyment is not good enjoyment." It was fascinating, frank, crude, bitter-sweet, hilarious, inspiring, heartbreaking, candid, raw, account of his life. The book is written in the first person, but it is almost like it is written by two different people; like a split personality Iron Mike the conqueror and Mike, the person living in his shadow. One minute is talking the perks of living it up as the world the women the money, then Mike talking about the shame of having betrayed the person he was with, yet he is talking about the same topic.What I find really fascinating about the memoir is the one admission made in the epilogue. He writes, “I have a favorite book that I try to read every day. It’s called The World’s Greatest Letters: From Ancient Greece to The Twentieth Century. I love connecting to the past this way. You learn so much about these people by reading these letters.” Wow! What can I say about the Undisputed Truth? It was quite a journey, very interesting and seemingly very honest. Mike does a tremendous job of sharing his story and I think he gives us an intimate look into his life from the streets of Brownsville to the suites in Las Vegas and everything in between. Mike Tyson's whole world is on display here and despite the muscular tome it never feels protracted. Mr. Tyson’s new memoir, “Undisputed Truth,” written with Larry Sloman, is a splashy hodgepodge of a book, by turns exhausting and fascinating, self-pitying and candid. Parts of it read like a real-life Tarantino movie. Parts read like a Tom Wolfe-ian tour of wildly divergent worlds: from the slums of Brooklyn to the high life in Las Vegas to the isolation of prison. And parts read like transcripts from a marathon therapy session, in dire need of editing.

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