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A review by paulogonzalez
Bad as I Wanna Be by Dennis Rodman
3.0
Flamboyant. This is the word I think better define Dennis Rodman. I have wanted to read this book for years; I always thought he was a pretty interesting character for both his behavior on and off court.
The book begins with a chapter in which Rodman evaluates to commit suicide. He is seated in his pick up handling a rifle and he has these thoughts. Finally he makes a decision: to be himself, let emerge his true personality, just how he is. It was 1992 (the book was published in 1997) and later he was transferred from Detroit Pistons to San Antonio Spurs.
This incident occurred in a parking is alluded several times throughout the boom, it is the born of the true Rodman. The flamboyant one.
I think this is a great autobiography in the sense that it really seems you are “listening” to Rodman. These could be perfectly his words, his thinkings, his opinions. It's all a biography has to be, to know how he sees himself.
Rodman talks about all issues surrounding him: teammates, rivals, coaches, the management, the public, the NBA establishment. About Madonna (they went out six months). About drugs, sex, money. As he said, NBA is fifty percent sex and fifty percent money.
One of the reasons why I think this is a real autobiography (not a fake one entirely written by a journalist) is the fact Rodman contradict himself often. He is capable of making an statement and the opposite in scarcely two or three paragraphs. And this occurs several times with several topics. And it results a clear sign of his mind, of his way of being.
At the same time he has very interesting ideas, his thoughts about all kind of topics are natural, free and quite different from what we usually find in the NBA. However, Rodman continually justifies himself, he feels he is misunderstood (he is different from everybody) and he always thinks he deserves a better economic deal. He comes about these two subjects every bit.
Finally, I would comment the changes of the type and size of the font this edition brings to us. Every page. Every eight or ten sentences. I finished weary, tired of this, I found it disgusting and it made harder reading. It could be once or twice in a chapter, and it would be OK. But this often... no!
The book begins with a chapter in which Rodman evaluates to commit suicide. He is seated in his pick up handling a rifle and he has these thoughts. Finally he makes a decision: to be himself, let emerge his true personality, just how he is. It was 1992 (the book was published in 1997) and later he was transferred from Detroit Pistons to San Antonio Spurs.
This incident occurred in a parking is alluded several times throughout the boom, it is the born of the true Rodman. The flamboyant one.
I think this is a great autobiography in the sense that it really seems you are “listening” to Rodman. These could be perfectly his words, his thinkings, his opinions. It's all a biography has to be, to know how he sees himself.
Rodman talks about all issues surrounding him: teammates, rivals, coaches, the management, the public, the NBA establishment. About Madonna (they went out six months). About drugs, sex, money. As he said, NBA is fifty percent sex and fifty percent money.
One of the reasons why I think this is a real autobiography (not a fake one entirely written by a journalist) is the fact Rodman contradict himself often. He is capable of making an statement and the opposite in scarcely two or three paragraphs. And this occurs several times with several topics. And it results a clear sign of his mind, of his way of being.
At the same time he has very interesting ideas, his thoughts about all kind of topics are natural, free and quite different from what we usually find in the NBA. However, Rodman continually justifies himself, he feels he is misunderstood (he is different from everybody) and he always thinks he deserves a better economic deal. He comes about these two subjects every bit.
Finally, I would comment the changes of the type and size of the font this edition brings to us. Every page. Every eight or ten sentences. I finished weary, tired of this, I found it disgusting and it made harder reading. It could be once or twice in a chapter, and it would be OK. But this often... no!