Matthew Polly
Teoksen American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China tekijä
Tekijän teokset
Merkitty avainsanalla
Yleistieto
- Syntymäaika
- c. 1975
- Sukupuoli
- male
- Kansalaisuus
- USA
- Asuinpaikat
- New York, New York, USA
Jäseniä
Kirja-arvosteluja
"Bruce Lee: A Life"
Seemed like a strange titled when I bought it but it's accurate. From birth to death and his legacy.
This is an amazing work by Polly. Always interesting and I never had a hint of being dragged through book-filler. I knew very little about Bruce Lee and decided it was time to fix it when I heard about this book.
The amount of research the author did for this book can be seen by the number of pages of footnotes (almost 100), bibliography (14), and index (24). I bought the paper version but anyone who wants it in order to mine it for information may want to get the ebook assuming it's properly indexed and linked.
Get this book. You won't be disappointed.… (lisätietoja)
Seemed like a strange titled when I bought it but it's accurate. From birth to death and his legacy.
This is an amazing work by Polly. Always interesting and I never had a hint of being dragged through book-filler. I knew very little about Bruce Lee and decided it was time to fix it when I heard about this book.
The amount of research the author did for this book can be seen by the number of pages of footnotes (almost 100), bibliography (14), and index (24). I bought the paper version but anyone who wants it in order to mine it for information may want to get the ebook assuming it's properly indexed and linked.
Get this book. You won't be disappointed.… (lisätietoja)
This had the potential to become a traditional coming of age story, but Matt Polly's engaging style allowed the story to stretch beyond those confines, and gives the reader a unique view into the culture within the Shaloin community. His well honed sense of humor, along with a healthy sense of self criticism makes this an enjoyable read.
This took me longer to read then expected due to traveling and just being busy. I didn't really care for the writing, but I still liked this book. Learned a lot about Bruce Lee that I didn't know. I've watched a documentary on him long ago, but only remember parts. Lee was a nobody, to a somebody, to a legend.
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- 4.0
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The 4 stars are when we see 1990s Chinese culture through his eyes especially the martial arts aspects. Martial arts movies tend to take the stereotypical parts of the culture and magnify it especially when shown through the lens of an American. This book pulls that back a bit.
The 2 stars are anything to do with women in the book. This is a coming-of-age book but the way he writes about his experiences with women are mainly about him and not as much about the women we writes about. Yes, he writes about male-female relationships and some about how they are different in China than elsewhere. But it's the way he writes about what happens that is juvenile.
… (lisätietoja)