Overall rating and opinion of " The Sword Swallower and a Chico Kid" by Gary Robinson
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Re: Overall rating and opinion of " The Sword Swallower and a Chico Kid" by Gary Robinson
This is a 4 out of 4 for me. Overall the book is either good nor bad. It seem to close to reality, and we have different views and opinions. There is a part that the interaction of the characters with one another are unbelievable,showing insults, disrespect,and biased but as we all know no one in this world is perfect.Even if we find clerical errors in this book still the book for me was full of drama, action, and excitement!
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Sorry you didn't enjoy it more! I'm still making my way through it.
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I'm glad the book exceeded your expectations!Yolimari wrote: ↑26 May 2018, 11:54 Honestly, I did not want to read this book because it featured drug abuse. I read it because it was the book of the month and I wanted to participate in the discussion. To my surprise I enjoyed the book very much.
My favorite part was how Duke and Gary became friends. Seems like it was meant to be. I think Gary met Duke when he needed it to wake up. He learned a lot from Duke during the time they had together. For example, he was impressed with Duke’s stories about joining the circus and the sideshow. He was also impressed with the eclectic amount of books Duke read.
I liked reading about Duke’s sword swallowing act in the circus and the streets. Every time I was in tension. When he finally had an accident and cut his esophagus, it still was super sad because he could not do it again.
I did not like reading that much about how both Duke and Gary abused drugs and alcohol. The author, thankfully, did not make these scenes gratuitous, but I wanted them to stop.
I also liked learning about the circus. I did not know how hard it was to put everything together, get ready, do the show, clean up, and then get ready to go to the next town. It must have been grueling.
I put the book in my 4 stars bookshelf because I think the author put a lot of emotion into the story. I hope Gary writes more books.
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In my opinion Gary Robinson did an exceptional job as far as tasking and or showing contrast of two men from totally different up brings/walks of life yet both with fighting battles in their own addiction to drugs and alcohol.
Though I found some parts of the story line somewhat harder to follow in a couple chapters overall I believe that Gary Robinson did a fairly well job on writing The Sword Swallower and a Chico Kid.
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I especially like the contrast as far as, in walk of lives between Duke Reynolds (The Sword Swallower) a guy covered in a lot of tattoos. Fifteen year old run and a circus "freak". Then there is Gary (Chico Kid) good kid making good grades all throughout high school going on to become college student and yet, so different and the way society may or may not view them both men in their own way battle the exact same drug and alcohol addiction. I believe it just goes to show that no matter what walk of life an individual comes from addiction can be there knocking on anyone's door weather it directly or indirectly involves whomever. It's a struggle for ll having to deal with it on any level.
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That would put me off, too. It's sort of offensive in a weird way.
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