- Paperback: 192 pages
- Publisher: Pan Books; New Ed edition (7 Oct 1994)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0330335073
- ISBN-13: 978-0330335072
- Product Dimensions: 17.5 x 10.9 x 1.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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From inside the secure wing at broadmoar hospital, the silent kray twin speaks out for the 1st time...
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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I have read many off the Kray books and find this one just as addictive. Ron Kray tells his story of what life was like back in the day and copping with his sexuality, and a life long stretch in jail.The murder of Jack 'The Hat' was gripping as he tells his account of what went on. The ups and downs of a notorios ganstar of the 1960's a must read for anyone who is intreiged by the Krays.
Format:Paperback
Highly entertaining, I found My Story by Ron Kray to be a remarkable account of events, Ron is really very funny, he is a great stroy-teller and transports the reader to an East End of yesteryear long since gone. He explains simply how & why things had to happen with a very matter of fact approach to life. I couldn't put this book away, each and every page is filled with nostalgia, humour and fine accounts of his relationships in the 50's & 60's and importantly, his reasoning. Like the other books by the twins, you need to read them all to get the whole picture. Really very good, wish it was longer.
4 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Ive been facinated by the krays for many years now and ive just started collecting and reading books on them again.
My story by Ron Kray i found intresting but as i read and read more and more books i tend to see that Ronnie was by his own admission a very ill man.
I really dont think that he was in touch with reality.
One thing im sure of is Ron and his twin were responsible for more killings than they put their hands up too that im 100% sure on.
As for them being a threat to society after 30 years i will have to say i dont think so they would have been eaten alive by the current rulers of the underworld who are far more violent and vicious than the twins and the firm ever was and thats a fact.
The book was a good look in to the mind of Ron Kray but only what he wanted you to know about him he claims he was bisexual but he showed no intreast in woman at all when he was younger so i really think he was misleading the readers in that statement.
As you read the book you will agree that Ron seems to realize that he will never leave broadmoor and he says that he has come to terms with that fact but in what he says and how he relates it i dont think he excepted that at all.
So far i have read 9 books on the krays written by them selves and from other peoples point of view about them and ive come to the concluion that there is a lot of difference to how they wanted people to see them and how they actualy really were.
I think their ego and pride kept them behind bars and their own fame not what they actualty did.
They were truly political prisoners.
If the people would have forgotten them they would have been let out i think but they payed for their vanity with their lives.
Ron says that he wasnt sorry for what he did but i think that he really was but his ego wouldnt let him admitt the fact he had to keep up the persona of the tough guy gangster so that the money would keep rolling in.
Its a pity really that the state could see that they were in fact no threat to anyone anymore and let them out after 20 years.
The twins went to their graves some people think with no remorse i think that is not true the twins went to their graves full of remorse for a wasted life and did 30 years for vanity and ego.
My story by Ron Kray i found intresting but as i read and read more and more books i tend to see that Ronnie was by his own admission a very ill man.
I really dont think that he was in touch with reality.
One thing im sure of is Ron and his twin were responsible for more killings than they put their hands up too that im 100% sure on.
As for them being a threat to society after 30 years i will have to say i dont think so they would have been eaten alive by the current rulers of the underworld who are far more violent and vicious than the twins and the firm ever was and thats a fact.
The book was a good look in to the mind of Ron Kray but only what he wanted you to know about him he claims he was bisexual but he showed no intreast in woman at all when he was younger so i really think he was misleading the readers in that statement.
As you read the book you will agree that Ron seems to realize that he will never leave broadmoor and he says that he has come to terms with that fact but in what he says and how he relates it i dont think he excepted that at all.
So far i have read 9 books on the krays written by them selves and from other peoples point of view about them and ive come to the concluion that there is a lot of difference to how they wanted people to see them and how they actualy really were.
I think their ego and pride kept them behind bars and their own fame not what they actualty did.
They were truly political prisoners.
If the people would have forgotten them they would have been let out i think but they payed for their vanity with their lives.
Ron says that he wasnt sorry for what he did but i think that he really was but his ego wouldnt let him admitt the fact he had to keep up the persona of the tough guy gangster so that the money would keep rolling in.
Its a pity really that the state could see that they were in fact no threat to anyone anymore and let them out after 20 years.
The twins went to their graves some people think with no remorse i think that is not true the twins went to their graves full of remorse for a wasted life and did 30 years for vanity and ego.
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MY STORY RON KRAY
THIS BOOK HAS BEEN ONE OF THE BEST STORY'S THAT I HAVE READ THE MAN SHOWS A VERY SHY AND ALSO THE GOOD SIDE OF HIM FOR THE CLOSE THAT HE HAS FOR HIS FAMILY A VERY SAD PARTS OF... Read more
Published 5 months ago by the BIG FELLA
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Brought for a friend who loves reading about the krays, he said is was great, definitely worth a read.
Published on 18 Nov 2009 by E. Reynolds
one of the best gangster autobiographies
ron kray and his twin brother reg were britain`s most feard gangsters in the 1960s."the beatles and the rolling stones where ruling the charts and me and my brother reg where... Read more
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