4 out of 4 stars
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My Dear Readers!
I would very much appreciate if you all sit back comfortably and listen to this great story. This story talks about a man name Dan "Tito" Davis, who exposed himself in all the wrong corners in life. Tito explains in detail about the situation when people become desperate about poverty, and befriends the wrong sort. Now, I know it may sound like a random story to you, but after I told you everything you will start to appreciate this man for his honesty.
It all began when Dan was a kid. He spoke of the harsh conditions that he faced in his childhood, and how he wound up as a Jockey in horse racing. He explains how his friends exposed him to drugs, and how the top college students used meth to score in exams. Dan talks about how he fell out of university to earn money through drugs, his failed first marriage, lost son, how he wound up in prison for 102 months, second marriage and how he escaped to Latin America. His life in Latin America is where his journey began as an international fugitive.
Tito is the most amazing character that I have ever met. He has a lively personality, but I admire him for telling the truth. Even though we are completely different from each other, I found him to be a man with social life and experience. He was descriptive about drugs and his sentence in prison. I was 100% hooked-up from the start, and I always felt I was a constant companion throughout all his troubles and sprees in his life.
The narrator of Gringo: My Life on the Edge as an International Fugitive is Peter Conti, who relates every part of this story through the eyes of Tito. I felt like I was listening to a story-teller. I found myself caught up with every emotional wave that hit Tito. There were times that I felt sorry for him, and there were time times I reacted, are you crazy!
Putting this read together, it consists of 16 chapters, a prologue, an author's note, an endnotes, and an acknowledgement by the author including a photo taken with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, which was impressive. Gringo means a foreign person in Latin America. Tito explains how he started to write his story with the help of Peter Conti, and Peter explains his first-hand experience and opinion about Tito. The ending noted on a cliff-hanger which pissed me off. I had a lot of questions in my mind, and I had a huge urge to know what happens next.
At first, I found the layout of this plot rather disturbing. I noted a certain lack of clarity and direction at the beginning of this plot which later subdued. There were hilarious and bizarre moments in this read such as Tito's bus trip in Guatemala, during which a baby pig disguised as an infant had pissed on him.
This read introduces different cultures in Latin America and Asia which were mysterious and alarming. I found certain colloquial vocabulary used such as tighty-whities. I believe a thorough proofread would be useful since there were grammatical and sentence structure errors available. I wish to rate Gringo: My Life on the Edge as an International Fugitive a 4 out of 4 stars since it was an unbelievable life story filled with bizarre experiences and most importantly, I do not wish to hold the grammatical and sentence structure errors against this read. So my dear readers, thank you for listening, and I hope you found this read as delightful as I have.
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Gringo
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