A review by johnnysbookrev
Waxing On: The Karate Kid and Me by Ralph Macchio

adventurous challenging funny informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

I read it one sitting. This book was great. When growing up, all I watched was 80's movies like Karate Kid, Top Gun, and Back To The Future. I personally watched Karate Kid over 10 times, and I will continue watching this movie. This book was more of a Karate Kid book. It describes his own personal stories with Karate Kid and his stories with Billy Zabka, Pa t Morita, and Elisabeth Shue. He also debunks some theories on about Karate Kid. These theories lead to the new Cobra Kai show on Netflix. He doesn't describe much about his childhood or his prior life before Karate Kid, but I didn't mind. I grabbed the book because I wanted to read about his experience in Karate Kid, and he provided a ton of information on that movie, show, and the actors he acted with. Actually that is all he wrote about. If you are an avid Karate Kid fan, I would read the book.

Since it came out in 2022, I've already read it three times. I normally don't read books multiple times, but I'll keep on going back to this book. It's funny, but it also has great lessons in the book. The book also is all about Karate Kid. He mentions about his life growing briefly, but the focus is Karate Kid.  I love it so much because Karate Kid was such a big part of my life. I did karate, watched this movie almost every weekend with my dad, and my dad's from South Korea.