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Summary: Mick Foley is the most extraordinary writer ever!
Review: Tietam Brown is an excellent book that I would recommend to anyone who is a fan of Mick Foley's previous work or is just looking for a good novel to read.Tietam Brown is a book about a boy named Antietam 'Andy' Brown, named after his grandfather that died fighting in one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War, who after some unfortunate incidents, has lost an ear and the use of his right hand. We see this story flash between his past where his deadbeat father had left him when he was young and soon after, his mother eventually died. As he goes from foster family to foster family, he has had to put up with a child molester and an abusive drunk. In the present time, Andy was nearly raped by a couple of bullies at school and had the ... beat out of him by a teacher/coach pumped up on steroids. His father has come back after eight years and now has custody of Andy, and he ends up going through some changes. He goes from being a drunk guy who sleeps with practically every woman he meets to someone who looks to protect and teach his son about the different ways of life. As I read this story, I found myself relating to Andy more and more because while I have the use of both hands, I was born with a left ear smaller than my right, and I am unable to hear out of it, so that would be the equivalent of missing a whole ear. I knew what it was like to be ridiculed and pushed around by other people, but I eventually toughened up and learned to put up with it, much like what Andy has done. I can say that Tietam Brown is an excellent debut novel from Mick Foley and I'm looking forward to any future works that he might put out. With all that being said, I rate this book 5 out of 5.
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Summary: Let's be honest...
Review: Why did this book get so many good reviews.... because only wrestling fans read it. With that said... Tietam Brown IS A GOOD BOOK. It's very dark, sad and even sickening at times, but it still draws you in as it pounds you with violence, rape and the worse, nastiess evil the world could ever create. Andy is an unbelievable character, as is Tietam. But I think that was the point. Imagine if you were destined to have everything in your life go horribly wrong. What would your life be and why would you even want to live? I let me tell you, that coach... I meet him. The girlfriend... I meet her too. And this isn't about cartoons or super heroes. It's about about people (PWT, but none-the-less people). It's about the sadness of the loneliest of souls. It's about those people that go to the talk show to chant "JERRY! JERRY!" From this side of the TV it seems so fake.. but, those are real people... on stage and in the audience. You may know one of them... you may even be one of them! Take their stories and combine them, focus on what made them who they are...ball all of that up and make them two. Put it in a book, and watch how to make wrestling fans read again. It's NOT like Wells, Smith, Cancey, King, Koontz or Hoag... It is still a great book. Read it. Then stop and ask youself... why did I really like it? My answer was .... "while it was SO surreal, it was still so HUMAN."
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