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Title: Gorilla Suit: My Adventures in Bodybuilding by Bob Paris ISBN: 0312194587 Publisher: Griffin Trade Paperback Pub. Date: November, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.65
Rating: 5
Summary: Knowing the Truth Brings Respect
Comment: I have never really folllowed compeitive bodybuilding, but recently decided it was time to get in shape. In my quest to transform myself I founf this book written by Bob Paris, about his journey through competitive bodybuilding, and his eventual withdrawal from it. Reading his story I have to new found respect for the sport, and most of all for him, as he turned way from the body building establishment because of value conflicts. After reading this book, I'll never be able to look at a Weider product the same way.
Rating: 3
Summary: this was not the book i was expecting to read.
Comment: Being a gay bodybuilder and into a sport where there is a lot of explotation and all around craziness,I was epecting this book to be a real page turner.A great deal of the book tells of Bob's childhood and troubled adolescence.I wanted to skim ahead to the "juicy stuff".I decided to be patient.The juicy sruff never arrived.I've read other accounts of the bodybuilding lifestlye and this was the dullest.I'm sure Bob left some stories out to protect the innocent.Even the gay issue wasn't really explored.While I admit Bob had me turning the pages with anticipation,I kept wishing he'd get ot the point.I found his growing up years touching and disturbing,and when the book was over,it was indeed as if Bob Paris had told me his story personally,but it wasn't the story I was expecting to hear.
Rating: 4
Summary: Rewarding
Comment: I bought this book in hardcover when it appeared and I am glad to see that it has won some admirers among its many critics. I thought it was an interesting memoir even apart from the special focus on bodybuilding, the story of his youth, family, and departure from the mid-west was convincing and to me, absorbing. It is indeed well written and moves smoothly from chapter to chapter, and I do not share the views of those who found it self-pitying; rather it seems an honest attempt by a man with a very unusual career to come to terms with his own life. It made me like him and wish him well. Why criticize him for not writing the book you "expected"?
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Title: Muscle : Confessions of an Unlikely Bodybuilder by Samuel W. Fussell ISBN: 0380717638 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: August, 1992 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Prime: The Complete Guide to Being Fit, Looking Good, Feeling Great by Bob Paris, Per Bernal ISBN: 0399527192 Publisher: Perigee Pub. Date: 04 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Generation Queer: A Gay Man's Quest for Hope Love & Justice by Bob Paris ISBN: 0446675350 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: June, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.99 |
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Title: Flawless:Ten-Week,total-Image Method for Transforming Your Physique by Bob Paris ISBN: 0446394068 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: March, 1993 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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Title: Flex Ability: A Story of Strength and Survival by Flex Wheeler, Cindy Pearlman ISBN: 1401901735 Publisher: Hay House Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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