You need to sign in or sign up before continuing.
Take a photo of a barcode or cover
4.42 AVERAGE
4.42 AVERAGE
medium-paced
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
adventurous
hopeful
medium-paced
So good that I ended up retelling a lot of it to my husband. Danny Trejo has done so much in his life from gangs and prison to helping others get clean and acting (obviously). I think this will definitely be a re-read sometime again.
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
sad
medium-paced
Great narration by Danny Trejo himself
Content Warnings
Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
I've always found Danny Trejo interesting. His life stories are compelling and it was fascinating reading about his trajectory to fame given his rough adolescence. CW: there are some graphic bits that involve violence that can be unsettling so tread carefully.
It's a balancing act to weave in so much — addiction and faith and health scares and crime and Hollywood and toxic masculinity — and not completely fall apart but this pulls it off. (On the Hollywood side, much respect for many including De Niro, Liotta, Banderas, Cusack, Cage.) Writing style gets a little repetitive at times but the epilogue coupled with Donal's beautiful concluding note gets the rating rounded up.
In the ten years starting with 2010, I did almost three hundred movies and TV shows, so the names and faces melt into each other. I mean, c’mon, I did a movie called 3-Headed Shark Attack. I did everything that came my way. Sometimes a job in the morning and another the same night. Most actors are scared of what their next project is going to be, but that’s never been a problem for me. I take the Michael Caine approach: it’s all work, and all work is honorable.
In the ten years starting with 2010, I did almost three hundred movies and TV shows, so the names and faces melt into each other. I mean, c’mon, I did a movie called 3-Headed Shark Attack. I did everything that came my way. Sometimes a job in the morning and another the same night. Most actors are scared of what their next project is going to be, but that’s never been a problem for me. I take the Michael Caine approach: it’s all work, and all work is honorable.
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
dark
informative
inspiring
medium-paced