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joannchilada 's review for:
Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood
by Danny Trejo
If you’re interested in this book, I highly recommend the audio book. Nothing in the world is more charming than hearing Danny Trejo chuckle when talking about his past. Trejo is a believer in the twelve step recovery program and the idea of a higher power, but you don’t have to be a believer in either of those things to respect why Trejo is, and to see how critical it was to changing the course of his life. Trejo is an extremely empathetic person, and also capable of looking deep within himself, including taking a hard look at toxic masculinity during his later years. I really enjoyed Donal Logue’s pieces at the end of the audio book. They also validate that Trejo isn’t just remembering things in a fond light in his older age. He really is the awesome man of the people he seems to be. This is obviously a memoir in which an actor told his stories orally that were then captured in print, but that’s part of the charm of Trejo reading them back to us - because he’s also reading them back to himself in the process, laughing and sometimes getting choked up. He speaks slowly and in a choppy way, so the audio book will take more time to listen to than the book would take to read. It’s totally worth the time.