Do You like book Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits, And How Baseball Got Big (2006)?
My book juiced was totally a great book!! I was jumping in my seat when things good happened and when things bad happened! It's mostly about Jose Canseco and how he used steroids to be able to be the top baseball player, doesn't that sound so suspicious !! Well since it sounds like a great book, PLEASE READ IT. Well you should know some knowledge about baseball to be able to understand the book. I would recommend this book to boys mostly because I really think you guys will like this book because it's totally awesome. Girls, I don't know because not a lot of girls like baseball so it's up to your interest. So lastly, EVEYONE READ IT ITS TOTALLY TOATS AWESOMEEE!!!!!
—Taylor Stephens
Warning: I'm going to use a bad word in this review. Sorry, it's unavoidable, and if you want to stop reading here that's fine. Just know, if you go forward, a bad word will be said. A bunch of times.So at first when this book came out I was like, no way am I reading that!? except that yes, of course I was going to read it, obviously. It's not like me to ignore high profile baseball books. I forced myself to read Moneyball despite my bitter, painful, deep-seated hatred of the A's, specifically the height of the moneyball era A's, and I love that book, so I had to do this. And guess what? I kind of liked it? I kind of liked it. I feel weird saying that. Here's the bad word part. Jose Canseco is an incredible asshole. If you were reading this book hoping to find some hidden heart of gold, or some deeply buried sense of humility and gratitude, you would be supremely disappointed. Because Canseco is just a super asshole. But the thing is, there are a lot of assholes in baseball, and Canseco at least has the good sense to know what an asshole he is. And he's a really honest asshole. When this book came out no one would have guessed that a few years later we would all have been like, man, Canseco was RIGHT! but here we are. He was right. About A-Rod and everything. Plus it's a kick to read. It's totally fun gossipy beach reading, in fact I read it on a beach in Puerto Rico, which may have improved my disposition toward it. But it never bored me, and while Canseco's never going to win a Pulitzer, he (or his ghost writer) isn't embarrassing to read either.That said, I'm only going to give it two stars, because I have to give this asshole's book at least two stars less than I gave Dirk Hayhurst's book The Bullpen Gospels. Hayhurst is a total sweetheart, and Canseco- well, you know. Interesting thing though, Hayhurst really struggled in the majors while Canseco was a star. Maybe assholes make better athletes.
—Moira
Entertaining and skimmable. Interesting for its perspective on high times in the major leagues, the modest struggles of minor league players. Madonna sitting in his lap; his divorces and time in jail. What he has to say about steroids: everybody's doing it, so teach people to do it well and baseball will be more entertaining as a result; plus, my nuts shrank but I still look good. A classic example of a totally untrustworthy narrator - I can't believe somebody was paid to ghostwrite this and still couldn't come up with a more confiding and likable voice! His narcissistic personality disorder shines here. Too bad, because it makes it easy to discount his thoughts on racism in baseball, which are probably legitimate, as the ravings of a defensive paranoiac. He dishes on Mark McGwire, whom he believes only rose to heroic status (before he revealed his steroid use) because he was a white good ol' boy. I loved the gossipy insults - McGwire had an ugly face; Giambi exploded with roids; Tony LaRussa was cold and unloved in the dugout. Well worth the $.01 I paid on Amazon.
—Men D.
