- Hardcover: 280 pages
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC; First Edition edition (2 Nov 1995)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0747521263
- ISBN-13: 978-0747521266
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.4 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,354,169 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A biography of Arnold Schwarzenegger, one of the most successful modern screen actors and star of films such as "Twins", "The Terminator" and "Total Recall". The book looks at the rags-to-riches story of the ambitious Austrian who married a Kennedy. Is Arnold Schwarzenegger a bizarre construct of the PR industry, or is he the product of late-century Aryan supremacism, on a path which will eventually lead him to the White House? What makes him a freak achiever is not just his origin - the only sportsman ever to become a Hollywood superstar, let alone the only Austrian - but his ability to be several pairs of complete opposites: outlaw and establishment warrior; patrician and peasant; untried android and grizzled human veteran; hero and villain. He is universally popular and in a career spanning cops, robbers, hitman, special agents, macho kindergarten teachers and over-sized twin brother, Arnold has become the biggest hero in the world by playing the biggest hero in the world.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Take it or leave it....,
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This review is from: True Myths of Arnold Schwarzenegger: The Life and Times of Arnold Schwarzenegger, from Pumping Iron to Governor of California (Paperback)
Having read:
Arnold Schwarzenegger - A Portrait Pumping Iron Arnold - The Education Of A body Builder Arnold Schwarzeneggers Encyclopedic Guide To Modern Body Building and Arnold Schwarzenegger - A Biography.... I thought True Myths would make a good addition to my collection and be a interesting read. Having now read it, I cant help but feel a bit cold to it. If your a big Arnie fan it wont really give you anything you dont already know. Instead of going on cold hard facts, the author seems to just give his own view on things and what he thinks might be the reasons behind something, mostly conjecture to my mind. The style of writting is over complicated and rather waffly, its as if he sat with a thesaurus when he wrote this and always tried to find the most obscure word he could to make himself sound more intelligent. On more than one occassion I had no idea what he was saying, and niether did my girl friend... whos qualified to teach English! It does have some redeeming points when it comes to his movie career and how he got his roles etc. One thing that did annoy me was how the author made ridiculous comments on how the characters he played in his movies linked to Arnold in real life. They were so thin it was silly and it screamed of grasping at straws and trying to sound cleverer than you really are. Maybe I'm being to harsh on it, its not a bad book, I'm glad to have read it. But if someone asked me why they should buy it and what was good about it, I'd be a bit stuck to give an answer if I'm honest. Buy this is if you have read the above titles already, if not, read them first, you will enjoy them more.
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3.8 out of 5 stars (8 customer reviews) 6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Arnold's UNauthorized biography,
By JOE-JOE BOOKS "JOE BOOKS" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: True Myths of Arnold Schwarzenegger: The Life and Times of Arnold Schwarzenegger, from Pumping Iron to Governor of California (Paperback)
This my may not be the best book you will ever read, but if you're interested in information about Arnold, this is not a bad choice. The author mentions all the obstacles he had in writing this book and does not try to make it seem like it is an authorized biography in any way. He does give you a look at Arnold without the childish self-promoting efforts that Arnold's autobiography seems to try. This is a fun book, with a slight edge to it like you're reading something that might have been printed in a tabloid were it not printed in a book. You can almost feel like you are sneeking around with the author trying to find out information about Arnold that is not some sort of publicity stunt. It might not be the most fair look at Arnold, but then again neither is Arnold's autobiography. I think the real story might be found somewhere in between the two books.
11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
One version of the truth,
By MichaelH - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: True Myths: The Life and Times of Arnold Schwarzenegger (Hardcover)
This book is crippled by a couple of factors, including the author's fetish for mocking Arnold's accent about twice a page. More seriously, no one close to Arnold cooperated in its writing (a fact that the author acknowledges and laments.)That understood, however, the books does offer a compelling version of Arnold's rise to prominence first as a bodybuilder and then as an actor. Written from a reasonably neutral standpoint -- the author comes across as more gadfly than antagonist, while certainly not a sycophant -- it seems fair in its criticisms and appropriate in its praise. 3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Not very easy to read but has alot of information.,
By chuckconners - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: True Myths of Arnold Schwarzenegger: The Life and Times of Arnold Schwarzenegger, from Pumping Iron to Governor of California (Paperback)
Although the book is not that flattering for Arnold its not that bad either. I stopped following his career in the early 90's and it has alot of information about him since then. Most of the information about his career early on and into the 80's I already knew but had more detail than in previous material I had read.
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