The Tao of Muhammad Ali

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Summary: Unashamedly beautiful and heartfelt
Review: An intensely personal account of the author and the impact the great man had on his life. What it lacks in statistics and fight stories, it more than makes up for in subtly giving us Muhammad Ali's opinions on racism, arrogance and the skill of performing. Not in the style one might expect, but to a fan who already knows about his life and number of KOs it serves us up another appetising slice of Ali magic.



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Summary: People will still be reading this book in 2104 A.D.
Review: And I'll bet (not that any of us will be around to find out) that this is the only book related to Muhammad Ali for which that will be true. Real literature. Real art. Davis Miller is Nick Carraway in the book; Ali is Jay Gatsby. It doesn't matter what this book is about: it's pure, and purely beautiful, writing.


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Summary: Exceedingly good fun
Review: Buy both Tao of Muhammed Ali and Zen of Muhammed Ali and Other Obsessions - and all of Davis Miller's other books! They are amongst the most important pieces of literature to have been published in the last 100 years! Simply mind blowing. And incredibly fun.

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Summary: true Ali, true life; wise
Review: Davis Miller deserves a medal! He takes one of the last centuries greatest icons and places Ali firmly within the context of how everyday life unfolds via the medium of his (Miller's)own experience.There is great wisdom between the covers of this book. Enough said. You don't need more reviews,do yourself a favour JUST BUY IT AND READ IT!

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Summary: More inspiration than perspiration!
Review: Davis Miller shares the story of his life and the inspiration he has received through his serendipitous encounter(s) with Muhammad Ali. This is a poignant account of a boy's difficult childhood, and the inspiration he receives from his real-life hero, Muhammad Ali. This wonderful book is much less about boxing, and much more about family love. How wonderful it would be to sit in the living room of Muhammad's mother and feel the warmth of her radiating love. The author states that Muhammad Ali would have been a world-class figure even if he had never put on a pair of boxing gloves

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Summary: A True Insight into the Daily Life of a Hero
Review: I bought many books on Mohammad Ali because I find the character truly amazing : the first modern icon, the first brand, the most recognisable face on Earth, and one if not the best boxer ever (especially in his early days).
I bought the book out of curiosity five years ago and from page one it grabbed me. I did read the book in one go.
Davis Miller's style is crystal clear, to the point; it sounds as if he is writing a letter to you.
His life is as boring as anybody except for the light that Mohammad Ali puts in it. Videos, articles, books, photos you name it, he has collected them all throughout his life.
What makes this book work is the paralell between the life of a star and a life of a fan : they nearly have the same age but they couldn't be more world apart if it wasn't for the dedication in the training they both had.
One day the aged fan meets his star and his life takes another spin : he has at last found his way, he will write about the only thing he knows that is Mohammad ALi.
Mohammad Ali is miles apart from the bragging Cassius Clay he once was and that is a reassuring discovery.
He pulls tricks, he plays like a kid, he shows his kindness towards any other human beings but the revelation is that he is not as disminished as the press would like to see him.
What this books tells us ?
it tells us that you can live your dream at any time, you can grab your destiny if you really want to. It gives us a true insight into the daily life of the most famous face on Earth.

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Summary: The Greatest Book on the Greatest
Review: I have also read Tao of Bruce Lee by the same author. I feel he really gets to the essence of each man's character rather than giving detail after detail. For most people it will be the only chance to gain the feeling of being there in their prescence. In the case of Bruce Lee this is particularly true, since he's no longer here with us.

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Summary: I think I finally know how to describe this book to friends
Review: I recommend this book all the time. It's always a struggle to get people to understand how darn good it is and why they'll love it, even though they may not be interested in Muhammad Ali. I was telling my friend Nanci about it a few days ago. She and I've both read the Norman McLean story, A River Runs Through It, and it's one of her very favorite books. (I also like the movie, by the way.) I told Nanci to think of Tao of Muhammad Ali as A River Runs Through It with Ali playing the role of the river. I don't know that she understood what I meant but she bought a copy of the book. No matter who you are, I'm sure you'll love this book. It'll become one of your very favorites, even if you couldn't care less about Ali. Tao of Muhammad Ali is a beautiful, connecting, sweet, level-headed story.

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Summary: beautiful story that deserves more attention
Review: I was given this book as a Christmas present and read it in one long sitting. It's an amazing story that I believe millions of people would love if they only knew about it. No one I know seems to have heard of this book. It's as good, or better, than anything I've read in years and years. It's not written for Muhammad Ali fans so much as it's written for PEOPLE -- I can't help but believe that a story this inspiring just has to eventually catch on, by word of mouth if no other way. It reads as timelessly as a Dickens novel, yet it's very American and contemporary. And I can see it as a movie with maybe Tom Hanks or John Cusack as Davis Miller, Robert Duvall as Miller's dad, and maybe some unknown actor as Ali. The Ali in this story is not the young, brash, too loud boxer, but sort of a real world grandfather-grandmother-Yoda-Zen monk figure. I've never read anything like this book but I want to see more from Davis Miller. And I expect to read The Tao of Muhammad Ali many, many times.

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Summary: a marvelous book
Review: It is natural for a large Ali fan, as I am, to not easily give an adequate evaluation over a book that I would have surely always bought, no matter how the contents would reveal themselves. But I admit, when this book was first published in Germany, I already waited nearly desperately for the words, which would bring me closer to the "greatest of all times", because D.Miller tells history over Ali as he experienced it. But D.Miller's own story is exactly what keeps me so fascinated with this book today. There are not the statistics over Ali's fights, over his finances or over his marriages that finally failed. This book, it reveals rather "secrets" over the life - the inner life of Ali (particularly after his active career),and also the life of an author who in my opinion places much value on the intrinsic worth of human beings and also gives the reader much concerning himself -- and that is the best part of the book, if the reader only permits it. The fate makes it possible to be able to spend, through the author's experience, real, deep time with Muhammad Ali. It is not time as an ordinary interview is developed, but it is the time like one also with its best friends would spend. Miller recorded all this time with Ali in an affectionate and beautiful way. He describes Ali in Louisville, in the house of his mother, visited and between Rahaman and Mr.Clay senior appears, as Ali and his brother before their mother play like two children ridiculous and again and again. Punches, how affectionately Ali with his own and with all other children of this world goes around and how Ali, sick and 50 years old in an old sport-resounds, beats up a young, strong beginner. Miller accompanies Ali with a meeting with Joe Frazier and Ali says it is wrong to give the pain that he gave Frazier and says he loves Joe Frazier.... During the reading of this book one dips into the mysterious world of the most well-known man of this earth, which the author with his own history connects by his life and thereby hitting a corner of history we share with the author and with Muhammad Ali himself.