写真が少なく英語で理解するのに非常に難しい。日本語版で十分。コレクションだけなら良いとする。 Read more

Bellissimo libro da circa 500 pagine. Molto interessante, sincero ed informativo. Adesso ho la sensazione di conoscere il M° Lee. Il libro non solo documenta la sua infanzia, la sua carriera da artista marziale ed attore, ma contiene anche racconti sulle sue amicizie con personaggi del cinema e da uno sguardo alle sue filosofie ed abitudini. Veramente molto interessante. Read more

Finalmente uma biografia completa, perfeita, sem achismos ou ficções (comuns em biografias) sobre a vida de um ícone cultural que ultrapassa a barreira de um único segmento (artes marciais), afinal Bruce Lee além de filósofo, foi responsável pela quebra de diversos paradigmas nas artes do entretenimento graças a sua disciplina e perseverança. recomendo a todos a leitura de sua biografia e se surpreendam com a história de uma pessoa que ganhou status de lenda e não foi a toa. Alex (Rio de Janeiro) @gastrolex Read more

Very nice book... Ignore the 1 star review you can buy this book....💯💯💯 Read more

This is a really well-written, well-researched and referenced book that gives it a sense of academic credibility. As mentioned, it’s a long book, but I really couldn’t put it down and looked forward to my bedtime meeting with it’s pages. I bought this try and understand the huge hype that surrounds the man, his films and his writings. After reading this account, I personally didn’t find him a likeable character being rather childish and on referring to my copy of DSM-5, possibly suffering from narcissistic personality disorder since he displayed many of the symptoms which can easily be looked up online. Working down that list, he was dismissive of other arts (the classical Kung fu master, Karate etc) thus aggrandising his own abilities, his open conversational gambit was often, “Feel my muscles” or “Attack me in any way” trying to garner admiration, he suggested his art was the best without really proving it except in a few exchanges with carefully chosen opponents, he would have ideas beyond normal motivations such as his written ‘Aims’, he was obsessed with achieving more than is seniors like McQueen and Coburn just to better them rather than to achieve something and push the acting profession to new heights. Hen belittled other martial artists, actors, writers, directors who he felt were a challenge to his ‘superior’ ideas, he had numerous affairs even telling his wife that if she ever found out he was sleeping with other women, it was only for the sex so it was acceptable because he loved her and the kids! I could go on, but you get the idea. What we’re left with as a legacy are four pretty awful films: ‘Enter the Dragon’ is passable, with his terrible over-acting and cringe-worthy dialogues about things like ‘fingers pointing at the moon’ levered awkwardly into narrative (remember, in the same year we had American Graffiti, The Day of the Jackal, The Exorcist, Papillion, Serpico, The Sting, The Wickerman etc so Lee’s films can’t be said to be ‘of their time’), derivative philosophy books with nothing new or innovative at all and a martial art that nobody else appears to be able to be anywhere near as proficient in as the founder was, suggesting it wasn’t a ‘system’ but a personal, albeit extraordinary, ability on the part of Lee. Reading about the sleazy circumstances surrounding his death made me feel unclean: he had been having sex with his mistress all afternoon, unprofessionally cancelling the meeting with a potential famous acting collaborator who had flown into Hong Kong specially to meet Lee, he’d taken recreational drugs and then, rather childishly exhausted himself by showing off (recreating all fight scenes from Game of Death) to his mistress. The author suggests this exercise, on the hottest day of that year, may have been the major contributory factor in his death. In the light of this, it is a credit to his family, the PR companies and film studios that they have managed to create and perpetuate this wholesome, deeply spiritual image of the man that was Bruce Lee, attributes doesn’t seem to have possessed. This is a fantastic book, buy and read it now! Read more