Overall the idea of the book I have no problem with. Taking on fear and loneliness and not exactly winning.There was just two things I had a big problem with. One, Nick keeps making obscure academic references in a stream of consciousness sort of flow or making radical statements about other char...
I first became aware of THE DEVIL AND SONNY LISTON when I saw it on a list of the ten greatest books on sports. It is a biography of Sonny Liston, who was the heavy weight boxing champion of the world in the early 1960s. He won his title from Floyd Patterson and lost it a few years later to Cassi...
this book will make you want to seek out the company of dangerous, or at the very least rogue, men, go to exotic places where you don't speak the language but have a very definitive view of what it should look, smell and taste like in your head, live fast and hard and find an opium den and try so...