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I Am The New Black (2009)

by Tracy Morgan(Favorite Author)

3.09 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0385527772 (ISBN13: 9780385527774)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Spiegel & Grau

review 1: Audiobook Version: Tracy Morgan narrates his audiobiography which always adds a personal touch. Don't expect anything more than Tracy sitting back, telling you about his life. There is no organization to the book, so the reader has no clue what's coming next. He quickly goes from poinant to offensive without warning. That said, he has a touching life to share starting in the Bronx and Brooklyn to his rise to fame on the comedy circuit. I always appreciate celebrities that get themselves clean and talk about family values--especially when it comes from the most unexpected advocates. I won't deny I got choked up hearing Tracy get choked up at times, and cried right along with him...this book is not going to win him any prizes, but it certainly felt sin... morecere.
review 2: This memoir grew on me the moment I opened the book, in which the thing here is, I don't ordinarily read prologues or openings. If the book is really good, then I'll go back to read the forward, and epilogue, and even acknowledgements and indexes, if any. But not starting out. For Tracy's memoir however, I read the opening, and was pleasantly quite surprised. That intro was that fabulous. He's humble, but hungry. Still, I braced myself for a rough read…despite it already being clarified in the intro that I likely wouldn't be among the sect surprised by the contents of his story. Turned out, the intro was on point. I didn't need to brace myself at all.I like the way he repeats himself... it's one of the ways I can hear his voice, along with those call-outs he shouts out intermittingly... as in "what's up Marci? I love you, girl!" But what I really loved, and appreciated, were the props he gives to the trailblazers who've inspired his career. Redd, Richard, Eddie, Martin, and later so many others (Bernie Mac, Cedric the Entertainer...) to now include the props he gives himself; my all-time favorite comedians. His honesty is another tangible treat, even at the corollary of having to deal with some of the rawness surfacing from bodies like Chico. Let me put it this way, before this book I didn't know Tracy Morgan. And that's not only because, I haven't watched TV or movies in years. It's because it would take reading this book to really get to know him; that being (of course) if you aren't Tina Fey...This made for a very engaging, easy read I highly recommended. Very well done! less

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