A Savage Business: The Comeback and Comedown of Mike Tyson

Author: Richard Hoffer
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ISBN: 0684809087
Publisher: Simon & Schuster (January, 1998)
Sales Rank: 191,655
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 out of 5

Customer Reviews

Rating: 2 out of 5
A clouded affair.
I would like to say that I tore through this book at a rate of knots and left fully satisfied. I hate to discover that halfway through a book it is becoming a chore to read but that is exactly how I found this book. Although it does have moments that will no doubt allow you leave to pause for thought, generally it is a tough read that the author has obviously tried hard to complicate regarding issues where motives were actually very simple. Maybe he was looking to read between the lines for deeper issues but I don't believe that they existed. If this were a school report card it would have "could do better" written all over it. Frustrating.

Rating: 5 out of 5
Boxing Is For Desperate Young Men
Guys pretty desperate-i.e.,poor,hungry,uneducated, and with an abundance of brawn become boxers. This book is an entertaining story of one success story. While Mike Tyson is not always an ideal role model, he has succeeded in a physically dangerous business that takes brawn and smarts.

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