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On September 25, 1962, Charles 'Sonny' Liston took the title of World Heavyweight Boxing Champion from Floyd Patterson. Then, after a stunning reign, Liston lost his title to Cassius Clay. This text investigates Liston's violent life, his seduction by the mob, and his mysterious death in Las Vegas.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Tosches brings Liston to life for about 250 pages, as a formidable and unhappy man in a particularly strange and unhappy world. It's not a biography as such - it's more a study of the sometimes bleak, sometimes exciting world in which Liston lived, centred on but not exclusive to him. So there's lots on Tosche's interests: gangsters and violence, mainly. The book occasionally wanders away from Liston, and i sometimes found myself trying to remember who such and such a mobster was, and what his connection with Mobster X and Fixer Y.
The book is written in Tosche's Faulkner-tinged style: unembarrassed about greatness and drama and potent speculation, and so perhaps not to the taste of dry-as-dust types and those who dislike adjectives; for Sonny Liston, i feel the style is appropriate.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I have to confess that I was slightly disappointed by this book. Don't get me wrong, it is still an interesting read, but Tosches fails to provide new insight into the cause of his death, amongst other things. He also insists on putting forward his conspiracy theories on the two Clay-Liston fights, using all manner of circumstantial "evidence" and conjecture to suggest that the fights were fixed in Clay's favour. It is as if Tosches is oblivious to what Clay-Ali achieved over the next fifteen years, or that Liston was aging, overconfident and poorly conditioned. Tosches' bias towards those he obviously dislikes brings down the overall tone of the book.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
"Night Train" is a very meticulously researched and ultimately very informative and interesting book. Unfortunately Tosches seems to devote a lot of energy to slagging off Cassius Clay and his associates such as Norman Mailer. Much of his time is spent trying to be a clever writer when he would do better by just concentrating on what was a fascinating life.
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Interesting but messy.
This is an interesting book that tackles a very controversial sporting/public figure. The author succeeds in writing in a very aggressive style which wont be to everyones taste but... Read more
Published 5 months ago by Gillian R. Lister
For such an intersesting man, a very poor book
Given that Sonny Liston lived a life fill of notoriety, I really expected to find & learn some great things in this book about the man. Read more
Published on 1 Oct 2007 by John McBride
A good read but overlong
I found this to be an interesting read albeit a little long on unnecessary detail(the indictments of Liston's gangster associates, for example). Read more
Published on 21 July 2006 by Doog
too much detail!
i've long been fascinated by this enigmatic and much maligned prizefighter. there's so much material here that any biography is bound to be of interest. Read more
Published on 15 Nov 2001 by firetrapster@aol.com
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