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A review by lilstarbies
Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story by Arnold Schwarzenegger
3.0
K some more rants - I forgot to mention last time about how annoyed I was about him being so harsh on worker's comp claims. He gave out two anecdotal stories about people he knew who were cheating the system - and basically implied from that knowledge that everyone was scamming the system. So annoying.
Next, was him hurting Maria even more. When he decided he was going to run for re-election, she had to find out through the newspapers. Then he bragged that at the end of his governorship that Maria gave a speech that was like 'oh at first I didn't want him to get into politics, but now I'm glad he did. I was wrong and he was right'. To me it come off as him like rubbing it in her face that he was always right. And again, he was basically super proud that she was being subservient to him. Then, when he finally admits to having a kid with the nanny - we find out that she'd asked him about it previously and he lied about it. Why am I not surprised? F--k you Arnold.
K, next rant comes from his 10 rules chapter. As he's talking about never following the crowd, he says this: "When every immigrant I knew was saving up to buy a house, I bought an apartment building instead." Sigh - he's so fucking wrapped up in how amazing he is, he doesn't see how stupid this is. The other immigrants didn't even have enough money for a house, how the fuck were they supposed to buy a fucking apartment building???
At the same time that I'm reading this, I'm also reading Malcolm Blackwell's Outliers. Arnold would have been such a good case for Gladwell - he got so many advantages that helped him get to where he's at -- but I feel like he still believes he did it 100% on his own.
Also, I was annoyed that Arnold only sleeps 6 hours a night and expects that everyone else is the same way...Ok, ok, now I'm just getting nit-picky because I'm so annoyed by him!!!
I'd say I pretty much was enjoying the book, but once he started on about the political shit, the tone was totally different and I just... hated him. By that point, all this stuff that was bothering me from earlier in the book just kept compounding. UGH.
Next, was him hurting Maria even more. When he decided he was going to run for re-election, she had to find out through the newspapers. Then he bragged that at the end of his governorship that Maria gave a speech that was like 'oh at first I didn't want him to get into politics, but now I'm glad he did. I was wrong and he was right'. To me it come off as him like rubbing it in her face that he was always right. And again, he was basically super proud that she was being subservient to him. Then, when he finally admits to having a kid with the nanny - we find out that she'd asked him about it previously and he lied about it. Why am I not surprised? F--k you Arnold.
K, next rant comes from his 10 rules chapter. As he's talking about never following the crowd, he says this: "When every immigrant I knew was saving up to buy a house, I bought an apartment building instead." Sigh - he's so fucking wrapped up in how amazing he is, he doesn't see how stupid this is. The other immigrants didn't even have enough money for a house, how the fuck were they supposed to buy a fucking apartment building???
At the same time that I'm reading this, I'm also reading Malcolm Blackwell's Outliers. Arnold would have been such a good case for Gladwell - he got so many advantages that helped him get to where he's at -- but I feel like he still believes he did it 100% on his own.
Also, I was annoyed that Arnold only sleeps 6 hours a night and expects that everyone else is the same way...Ok, ok, now I'm just getting nit-picky because I'm so annoyed by him!!!
I'd say I pretty much was enjoying the book, but once he started on about the political shit, the tone was totally different and I just... hated him. By that point, all this stuff that was bothering me from earlier in the book just kept compounding. UGH.