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Summary: The Hurricane
Review: Quite a excellant book with a spellbinding story, deeply involves the reader in rubin's life and times. The reader can sense the metamorphis of rubin
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Summary: Great Example of Psychopathic Thinking!
Review: Rubin "Hurricane" Carter tells us in his own words EXACTLY what kind of man he is and what kinds of crimes he commits. From the outrageously ludicrous story he creates to cover his vicious robbery as a youth that got him incarcerated until adulthood to his equally creative explanation of the night he involved himself in homicides that put him away for life, Carter provides us fascinating lies and manipulations that are textbook psychopathic behaviors. A pathological liar to the core, Carter weaves one bold fabrication after another in an attempt to convince the reader that he is a victim of racism and corrupt law enforcement. If you want to know the TRUTH about Carter, skip the other books that buy Carter's hogwash and read the "facts" straight from the mind of a master criminal. The book is fully reviewed on my site.Pat Brown/Author of "Killing for Sport: Inside the Minds of Serial Killers"/CEO/Investigative Criminal Profiler/The Sexual Homicide Exchange
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Summary: THE HEARTS OF MEN
Review: Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter's "The 16th Round" made my weekend delightful. It is one book that calls morality to question. The story it tells is just one out of the millions most Black Americans of his era (and beyond) developed immunity to hearing. It is a sweet sad story; and every page of the book seem to ask: Where has justice gone? I couldn't give an answer, but I know one thing for sure: Freedom was faraway, and compassion was nowhere to be found.
Yes, like every other society, there are two people in the U.S.A.: the good ones and the bad ones. Given the nation's racially charged history, I can understand the reason why "freedom and justice" are among the most common phrases that feature in every Presidential Speech. History clearly shows that the United States of America deliberately deprived herself of both true freedom and true justice. The reason for this being that the country showed more interest in the skin-colour of her denizens than in the contents of their character.
Permit me to add this: I have always been a vocal supporter of Capital Punishment: as a deterrent for heinous crimes. But, the fact that justice has been, and are still being perverted on a daily basis (has since) doused my support for Death Penalty. My conscience never tires to remind me that many unfortunate 'Rubin Carters' have been put to death solely because of their skin-colour, and never because they actually did what they were accused of doing. These unfortunate souls were never champions. They were never celebrated. Their transitions went unheralded, but God kept the count. The human heart is desperately wicked! We have soiled our hands, and have polluted our lands with innocent blood. Our wickedness is worse than stench!
Well, there is no point crying over spilled milk. The most reasonable thing for us to do now is to change. We have to seek true penance, true repentance, before seeking the forgiveness of God. We owe these to God, and to all our victims. I have always known that the more unfortunate 'Rubin Carters' lie in unmarked graves. Their "16th Rounds" may never be written.
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Summary: the greatest book I have ever read!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: Take this from a person who does not read a lot this is one great book. You find yourself reading at night and reading for hours just because you want to find out what happens next. I have never read anything like this. To see someone like this obliviously not committing the crime and then get triple life its unbelievable. I actualy saw the movie first and thats what spured me to want to read this. He is my hero and after you read this book he will be yours to. For him to be one great boxer someone who was about to go for the midleweight fight but going to jail for something he didn't commit. He will inspire you. For his whole life never to be asking for help doing it all on his own but then getting triple life just because he is Black!!!!! Take this for someone who likes to hang out with friends and playing sports and never reading. READ IT. You will love it!!!!
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Summary: Ain't it a shame...
Review: that you can't find this book in the USA! What does it say? Sure we can read another boring account of some so call "star" from the tabloid press, yet we don't have the compassion to hear a courageous story until 25 years later! God bless those who read this story earlier and reversed an injustice. Here's to you Rubin! And to you John Artis! Thanks alot!
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Summary: An Angry Book By a Once Angry Man
Review: The 16th Round: From Number 1 Contender to #45472 is a book written by Rubin "Hurricane" Carter from his former prison cell in Rahway State Prison, New Jersey circa 1973. The book gives a complete accounting of Rubin's life from the time he was a young boy growing up in New Jersey right up until the time he was incarcerated in the tough New Jersey penal system. It gives a full background on how he got to be where he was and the circumstances that put him there in his tainted and biased view. The book is well-written, but it of course has a slant to it that professes nothing but innocence and injustice toward the author. It's a one-sided storytelling as seen through the eyes of an angry convict. Everyone has heard the saying that all prisoners in jail profess that they are innocent - well this book and Rubin Carter do nothing to dispel that notion. The book is an angry, dark, twisted tale written by a man with no objectivity - and that's understandable. Rubin Carter is today a man full of love, compassion and understanding, but when this book was written he was a man full of hate, venom and indignation. Sometimes the book is a chore to read as Carter forces the reader to walk with him down his path of blameless righteousness. One gets the feeling that Carter feels everyone else in the world, the "pigs"(cops), "crackers"(white people), and the establishment (everyone else in the world) is wrong and he is right. After one is through with this book they still don't have any idea who really did commit the murders or why. The problem with the book is that it reaches no definite conclusions and all one really gets is 16 Chapters of Carter's self serving, four-letter racial rants about how he was done wrong and why he should be free. I make no conclusions here regarding Carter's guilt or his innocence, mainly because the book doesn't help the reader at arriving at any conclusion either. Carter can't decide who to point the finger of blame at in the book so what he does is point the finger of blame at everyone and anything that he can for his own predicament. There is nothing in the book that will make the reader come away and say - "Oh, he's innocent, let him free!". The book is dark and it's angry. I am a boxing historian who loves the sport and I enjoy today's version of the Ghandi-like Rubin Carter. I thought the movie starring Denzell Washington was very well done. However, by the time I was done reading this sad tale of "woe is me" by a man who only makes excuses and offers no solutions for his actions, I felt like I was holed up in that prison cell with him.
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Summary: Innocent, but still responsible
Review: The book is okay...but I will admit I had a tough time rooting for this guy. Each and every problem were to some degree caused by his own behavior. And his failure to take responsibility for his own behavior turned me off. He was clearly framed, but his own actions, criminal record, and words are part of what led to his being framed. I was disappointed that he failed to recognize this fact.
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Summary: Powerful...Incredible...Enthralling...Amazing!
Review: The Sixteenth Round was the powerful, emotional document of Rubin Carter's life, ending with a plead to force a new trial to prove his innocence. But, it turned out to be a timeless, eye-opening portrait of prisons in America and the haunting truth of Justice and Fate. Needless to say, this book is explicit, angry, and takes all prisoners. You can't escape the cruelty of Rubin's life, witnessing the reality, and how he was caught in the center of Hell...and the haunting fact was that it was the truth. The pain he had to go through is, to me, inconceivable. Rubin Carter has written a terrific book, more than what he wanted it to be...a timeless testament about America, justice, prison, and fate...He may not be the best boxer, but he is one of the best fighters...fighting the dehumanization of his life weaving through prison and out, and fighting the cruelty of "Madame One-Eyed Justice" and "Fate." This book will not come off of your brain...it is a very honest, angry, stirringly emotional, thriller of a book. I recommend it to the people who saw the movie, and someone who wants a direct and eye-opening portal into the mind of a black man living through the Civil Rights Movement.
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Summary: Quite charming and emotional, but lies!!!
Review: This book is a complete distortion of the truth behind the real story of Mr. Carter. The story is told from the side of an angry convict who was constantly in trouble with the law because he was a sociopath who projects his responsibility for his failures on society and the law. Many of his claims are bendings of the truth of what had actually happened to him. For example, he was NOT 11 when he first went to juvenile school for stabbing a pedophile. The real story was that he was 14 and mugged an old man for $55 and his gold watch. I have an original copy of the boxing match between him and Joey Giardello. Giardello was an excellent fighter who was in fact, unable to knock out Carter, but Carter wasn't even close to having the skills of Giardello. The only rounds that Carter won were the first 5 out of all 15 rounds fought. At the time of his first conviction, he was not the #1 contender. He had in fact lost 7 of his last 15 fights which occurred after the loss to Giardello. He was also not an activist; there isn't any evidence to support his claims on that. Also, if he was an activist, why wasn't there any mention of it or any audio/video of it in The Hurricane starring Denzel Washington?... Denzel Washington once said, "This man is love", in reference to Mr. Carter. If Rubin Carter is "love", then why did he and the Canadians and Lazarus, who dedicated several years of their lives to freeing him, sit in separate rows and never spoke one word to each other at the premiere of The Hurricane? Look at the website's truth before you make a judgement. Peace
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Summary: The Sixteenth Round
Review: This book is a must read! It is by far the best book I have ever read. It is a true account of a man who has been repeatedly abused by the American justice system and by society. The descriptions of events and situations are painted so vividly that you can actually see them happening. The writing style is very similar to that of Martin Luther King, Jr. If you want to read a book that shows the struggle that black people (and other minorities) must endure everyday , then you should definately read this book. It will make you laugh, it will make you cry, and it will make you want to get up and yell at somebody. And hopefully, it will make you want to be an activist. Read this book if you want to read about something REAL! Rubin Hurricane Carter and John Artis are heros!
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