No comments about The Green Hornet #12 (The Odyssey of The Crimson Wasp Part 1 of 3.).

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1 comments about Intercepting Fist: The Films of Bruce Lee & the Golden Age of Kung Fu Cinema.

1. This book takes a good look at the kung-fu movies produced overseas and the kung-fu cinema evolved over time from fantasy to realistic with Bruce Lee's movies.
   
   Interesting read!

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1 comments about Foundations of Operative Surgery: An Introduction to Surgical Techniques.

1. This is a good book with exactly the information I was looking for, but the DVD is PAL format and not designed to be used outside the UK. Guess they did not plan on selling in the U.S.

5 comments about Unsettled Matters: The Life & Death of Bruce Lee.

1. Will we ever know FOR SURE, what happened to Bruce Lee? I doubt it, but Bleecker's book offers you a well written and plausible alternative explanation than the "official" stories.



2. The book Unsettled Matters provides shocking insights on the life and death of Bruce Lee. Tom Bleecker knew Bruce Lee personally, researched his life, married Linda Lee and wrote Unsettled Matters.



3. I had known of this book for a while, but it didn't sit very high on my reading pile list. In retrospect I guess it was because it was written by Linda Lee's ex-husband. It seemed to me it would either be an attack on Linda or just a money-making scheme. Both of which are probably partially true, anyway.
   
   But I did finally get round to reading it. I started to read it late one night and, once started, I didn't want to go to bed until I had read it all. I enjoyed it. It's a very different approach to a Bruce Lee biography. Most biographies speak in a positive manner about their subject; Mr Bleeker seems determined to destroy the image of Bruce Lee that has built up over the many years since his death. Why has he chosen to do this? Apparently to show us all the "real" Bruce Lee. Why he feels the need to do this? I have no idea.
   
   I am not going to sit here and tell you I believe everything in the book; nor will I say it is full of lies. This is basically a book written by someone who didn't particularly like Bruce Lee. What he has done has gone metaphorically through Bruce's rubbish bins, dirty laundry and is trying to prove to us we shouldn't respect him as much as we did before.
   
   Nothing in this book changes my opinion of Bruce. He was a great - and still is - an inspirational character. I never believed that he was the best martial artist in the world, or that he was the perfect physical specimen. He was a man who achieved so much in so little time, because of his sheer determination and belief in himself and his abilities. And faced with a lot of obstacles along the way, he eventually prevailed.
   
   Overall it was an enjoyable read, and a good insight into Bruce behind closed doors. It left me feeling kind of sorry for Bruce. That passed after a few days, and my interest in Bruce has gone up dramatically since reading it, which is a very good thing. Long live the memory of the wonderful Mr Bruce Lee!!!
   



4. As many have commented, just the fact that the author is claiming Bruce used steroids is absurd...hahaha....a body on steroids would be FAR more bulky than Bruce's body was. If you look at Bruce's body and compare it to todays buff bodies, his body is teeeeeeny. His arms are very small compared to even MINE and I am Bruce's same height and frame. It just is not possible to take steroids, work out over 3 hours a day and be so tiny. It is utter nonsense. Anyone that believes he took steroids is being gullible.
   I am not so naive to think Bruce was a saint, he was flawed and probably did take some kind of performance enhancing thing, that may have been a little on the shady side, to boost his energy up a bit to speed up his results, but steroids, it was NOT.
   So, with that obvious flaw, I already don't trust the author much. There might be a few "dark facts" revealed here, but there are also a lot of inaccuracies. I don't suggest wasting time with this book especially since there are at least 8 bios of Bruce out there.



5. According to the review info, presumably supplied by the one-man company who wrote and published this title:
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   From Scientific American
   I just finished reading Unsettled Matters and all I can say is that I could not sleep last night. The world should know the truth, and Mr. Bleecker is right to tell it.
   
   From The New Yorker
   I finished reading Unsettled Matters today. It is the best book I have ever read on the subject of Bruce Lee. I give it a 5-star rating.
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   Who do you think you are kidding? Couldn't you aim a little more realistic and say "San Leandro Daily News" or "KPGX Lite Rock"? How feasible is it that Scien-friggin'-tific American would write a review on a vanity project about Bruce Lee? Or The New Yorker? And I'm pretty sure you'd get demoted to copy editor in charge of mass e-mails if you turned in bad writing like that at both of those publications.
   
   I think attaching fake prestige reviews to a self-published book has to be a new low. Then again, I noticed that to promote another one of his titles, this Bleeker character sent the book to the White House, then took the resulting form letter and characterized it as "praised by Barack Obama." Gotta almost respect the shamelessness of it. In fact, if he writes a book about indecent self-promotion, it might have the ring of authenticity distinctly lacking in this clumsy hatchet job.

2 comments about The Legendary Bruce Lee (Literary Links to the Orient).

1. This book tells the story of Bruce Lee skillfully and it is really a 'must have' for Bruce Lee fans.

   --Lonnie R. Gardner




2. "The Legendary Bruce Lee" is a modern reprint of an excellent book that was originally published back in the 1970s, not too long after this martial artist legend's death. However, that item has been out of print for many years, so this is a great opportunity to get a newer version of it. The modern reprinting seems to include all of the original text and photos, so it would make a great addition to your Bruce Lee collection.

1 comments about Bruce Lee: The Incomparable Fighter.

1. You can't blame this book for not being able to capture Bruce Lee's technique. Why? Because he had no technique.

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