At first, I wasn't sure how much I'd like this book, but Jackie's honesty and openness about his feelings throughout his life and hardships that he had to go through was very endearing. He admits to being a cocky person when he first tasted success, causing him to lose one of the loves of his life. I really enjoyed reading about his evolution from that person to a more humble, yet ambitious veteran actor which he is now.
For fans of his movies who have seen his bloopers and mistakes at the end of the film, we read how all of the work through his childhood to early stardom to the present has gone into it. I almost felt that I could truly understand what went behind the movie and stunts that we might take for granted.
In any case, this book is a must for any Jackie fan, and is also inspiring as Jackie shows that hard work and a dream can often lead to great things.
This is ONE OF THE BEST BOOK I ever read (and I read a lot, no matter what style: history, children's, biography, science... everything); it opens your eyes on a different culture in a funny way that makes the reading exciting and swift...
You will know how does JC felt in his life and you will know it by his own 'voice'... At the end of the book you also have (in JC opinion): the top ten JC's stunts - the top ten JC's fightings - a list of injuries - a complete list of JC's movies
A very easy reading (for non English too). Just worth the money.
The more I learned about him, the more I respected him and his accomplishments. My family loved the the series of movies he did with his Lucky Star friends so it was great to learn about the close link between all of them and how they came to make those movies together. It was especially fun to discover that his movie buddy, Sammo Hung, is the very person who tortured him at school and how their relationship developed later on.
It's a shame that America could not embrace him when he was in the prime of his career to the rest of the world...his fame today is very much deserved.