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“A masterpiece … grimly tragic on one page, laugh-out-loud funny on the next, and unrelentingly vulgar and foul-mouthed. Reading Tyson's memoir is like watching a Charles Dickens street urchin grow up to join Hunter S. Thompson on a narcotics-filled road trip — with the ensuing antics captured on video by assorted paparazzi.” –Hector Tobar, Los Angeles Times “Undisputed Truth is raw, powerful and disturbing—a head-spinning take on Mr. Tyson's life…Unlike other sports memoirists, he doesn't pull punches, offering up slashing comments on people who were once close to him. His narrative reminds us of just how far he has come from his rough beginnings, and, in a way, how close he remains to them. He had a punch like a thunderbolt from Zeus, but there have been a lot of big bangers in boxing; Mike Tyson's came with a pulsating story line like few others.” --Gordon Marino, Wall Street Journal “Parts of [Undisputed Truth] 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…. Mr. Tyson’s idiosyncratic voice comes through clearly on the page here — not just his mix of profane street talk and 12-step recovery language, cinematic descriptions of individual fights and philosophical musings, but also his biting humor and fondness for literary and historical references that run the gamut from Alexandre Dumas to Tolstoy to Lenin to Tennessee Williams…. A genuine effort by a troubled soul to gain some understanding of the long, strange journey that has been his life.” –Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times “A hefty autobiography that might be the most soul baring book of its genre ever written … a fascinating look into a life that up until now had already been well chronicled … It’s raw and profane … but it is also quite funny.”—Associated Press “Undisputed Truth, which is, without a doubt, one of the grittiest and most harrowing memoirs I’ve ever read.” –Flavorwire “Most readers are familiar with [Tyson’s] tumultuous life and career—the bizarre behavior in the ring, the sordid behavior out of it—but what’s most surprising about the book is the introspection and self-awareness displayed … it’s raw and profane but also smart and witty … A fascinating and frequently surprising autobiography.”—Booklist “Undisputed Truth, is the American dream writ large in raw detail: think Citizen Kane scripted by the writing team of The Wire…. [it] has a great American novel feel to it… Tyson could easily be a Tom Wolfe or Norman Mailer creation.” –Austin Collings, New Statesman “[A] lively mixture of a memoir.” –Joyce Carol Oates, New York Review of Books “Tyson was ever practised at delivering the early killer blow; and so it is with this gripping and indecently enthralling autobiography….Tyson always had a way with words – although much of the credit for this book must go to his ghostwriter Larry “Ratso” Sloman, who not only makes Tyson’s life read like an Elmore Leonard thriller, but gifts him with considerable self-awareness and a memorably pithy turn of phrase….recounted in gripping, punch-by-punch detail in prose pungent with the reek of blood, sweat and petroleum jelly.” –Mick Brown, The Telegraph (UK)“Thrilling…addictive…Sloman brings Tyson's voice springing off the page with its often hilarious combo of street and shrink, pimp profanity and the ‘prisony pseudo-intellectual modern mack rap’ of the autodidact.” –Geoff Dyer, The Guardian (UK)
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About the Author
Mike Tyson lives in Las Vegas with his wife, Kiki, and their children. Larry “Ratso” Sloman lives in New York City.
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Product details
Paperback: 608 pages
Publisher: Plume; Reprint edition (October 28, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0142181218
ISBN-13: 978-0142181218
Product Dimensions:
5.4 x 1.3 x 8.4 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.6 out of 5 stars
618 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#20,354 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
The day this book was released, I read an excerpt posted somewhere or another wherein Tyson strangles Don King from the back seat of a limousine that King is driving. That sold me - I thought I was going to read a couple hundred pages of Mike Tyson telling insane stories. What I got was immeasurably better.This book is Mike Tyson's life story, in Mike Tyson's words, as told to a writer. It might not be the undisputed truth, but it is his truth, and it's his entire truth. It is brutally, unforgivingly honest, and while he has few kind words for the likes of King, Robin Givens, and Desiree Washington, no one fares worse in these pages than Tyson himself.Whatever you may think of Tyson, he is without a doubt one of the most fascinating sports figures of the past hundred years. He's a study in contradictions: a terrifying boxer with a temper that one could charitably describe as "mercurial" and yet he speaks softly, almost effeminately, with a lisp. The man said he was going to eat Lennox Lewis' children and praised Allah in the same sentence. He was paid tens of millions of dollars for fights that often lasted less than one round, and was bankrupt within ten years. Of course this guy's story is going to be great.But the two episodes in his life that he's most known for, his tumultuous (and allegedly abusive) marriage to Robin Givens, and his rape trial after a night with pageant contestant Desiree Washington gone horribly, irreversibly wrong, aren't glossed over. At all. If anything, he talks about them - the trial in particular - in detail that's simply uncomfortable. And it has to be. If he's to have any absolution, any redemption in the public's eye, he has to be able to tell his side of the story for those who want to hear it, those that wonder if perhaps his in-ring persona was unfairly turned against him.Undisputed Truth spends many, many chapters on how that persona developed, from both his cruel childhood on the streets of Brooklyn, to his being taught by Cus, the only father figure he'd ever known. Tyson's relationship with Cus is a well-known and oft-romanticized slice of boxing history, and the realization that everything that he learned from his childhood and from Cus that made him the tremendous fighter that he was being precisely what ensured his time at the top was so short and why he was so ill-prepared for life as Iron Mike had to have been painful to come to and write about.Whether you find Tyson as fascinating as I do, or want to learn more about the man behind the glove (and there's much, much more to him than I expected), or just want to know what in the world he was thinking with that tattoo, you absolutely must read this book. Don't expect 500+ pages of back-patting. All too often, memoirs are just a remembrance of happy times, rough patches smoothed over or omitted entirely. It's refreshing to read someone so well-known write something so unflinchingly honest about himself. This dives headfirst into the realm of absolute self-loathing. However much you might despise Mike Tyson for some of the things he's done in his life, he despises himself so much more for them.I want to think that this is the time he gets it right. That this is the time he has another chance and doesn't throw it away. That he's able to wipe away a little of the stain from his legacy, to be able to provide for his family, to find some peace. After reading his story, I'm not sure, but I'm rooting for him. Just like the old days.
People who consider Mike Tyson to be a villain have never truly studied him, and have probably never encountered true villainy. Those who consider him to be a hero have never studied the real nature of heroism. And those who consider him to be an illiterate brute simply don't know what they're talking about. In my sixth decade, after a lifetime of reading, I think that "Undisputed Truth" is the most honest autobiography I've ever encountered. An official of the New York Public Library has likened it to Augustine's "Confessions," but perhaps a more apt comparison would be to "The Education of Henry Adams."Although I'm a boxing fan, I never liked Tyson when he was fighting. I believed, and still believe, that his boxing skills were vastly overrated. He was certainly not an ornament to the sport when he wore the heavyweight championship belt. But who, including Cus D'Amato, ever thought of this infinitely complicated man as merely "a boxer?" They thought of him as a wrecking machine, a savage, "the baddest man on the planet." He certainly did bad things, and was an utterly abysmal "role model" (something he never aspired to be), but he was more than that. Most people who know his story know of his beginnings in life, which were not merely humble, but squalid and unimaginable to most of us. (Charles Dickens would have understood.) And Tyson himself has never stopped talking about those beginnings, or about the heartaches and cruelties that molded him; but his recollections of a troubled youth and a scandalous young manhood have never taken the form of a whimper or a cry for sympathy. When cursing out virtually the entire human race at times, his outbursts have been genuine, inimitable howls of rage. But there's more to the man than the rage, and that's what this book is all about.Whether recounting his most scandalous missteps, or calmly reflecting on kindness, love, and his own lifelong search for such things, Tyson has always been, just perhaps,one of the most honest men on the planet. There are plenty of other candidates for the title "baddest."He is also a genuine intellectual: not necessarily someone gifted with a high I.Q., but a man to whom ideas matter: a man of vast reading and vast contemplation. In describing his adoration of his wife Kiki and his youngest children, he quotes a long love letter from Napoleon Bonaparte to his Josephine. He has not merely read such writers as Dostoevsky and Nietzsche, but has internalized and incorporated many of their ideas into his own life. Their books may gather dust on his shelves, but their ideas come to his lips as readily as a profanity or a sigh. It is typical of life's ironies that this "thug," this man who won the world's acclaim by battering others with his fists, is in fact a man of ideas. This book tells very little of the history of boxing, but it is stunning and unexpected in its honesty. The title is perfect.Note: Tyson's stage show of the same name, and its adaptation by Spike Lee, bears virtually no relationship to the book. In the show, Tyson is a wisecracking entertainer; in the book, he is a naked soul, and as complex as a soul can be. It is unclear from the heart-rending epilogue whether or not Tyson has yet attained happiness. If not, one cannot read this book without hoping that he does so.
This is a rare boxing biography indeed! Mike Tyson holds absolutely nothing back. It's totally unfiltered and will shock you. Tyson is brutally honest in retelling his sordid past of sex, drugs, alcohol, and fighting in and out of the ring. It's a shockingly honest and clean biography where nothing is whitewashed to make him look good. It's Tyson warts and all!From his dysfunctional childhood in Brooklyn to Cus D'Amato, to his heavyweight championship to his rape conviction, to his comeback, the ear biting incident with Holyfield, his decline, and his life after boxing, its all here, all unfiltered, all Tyson.I've never read a biography so brutally honest and self-searing. Tyson talks about his successes and failures. He reveals his own self-hatred, his attempts to clean up his life, and his uncertain future with wife Kiki and family.I was thoroughly impressed with a writing so honest and so revealing. "Undisputed Truth" is the life of Mike Tyson. I think the reader will be amazed at the frenetic, hedonistic person Mike Tyson was and is. His dark side is monumental, his honesty is impetuous. He's Mike Tyson, heavyweight legend and scared little boy imprisoned in a body made for dominating others.The final epilogues going forward in the life of Mike Tyson are just as enlightening and compelling as the rest of the drama that is Mime Tyson.Highly recommended. Not for the faint of heart!Kone
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