The Bruce Lee Story by Linda Lee Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of The Bruce Lee Story
Book Review: A touching insite into an amazing family
Summary: 5 Stars
As a UK housewife with young children I have virtually no martial arts knowledge and read the book out of curiosity. I found a truly real book about an amazing marriage and an amazing couple. I think Linda Lee is as extraodinary as her husband. I am left feeling inspired about my own life and shall pass on little nuggets of knowledge to my own kids. This book is for people interested in fellow human beings and not just martial arts followers. It is testimony in itself that nearly 30 years after his death Bruce Lee has inspired an ordinary British woman.Book Review: A wonderful book for anyone intersted in Bruce Lee's life!
Summary: 5 Stars
I have read this book twice, what a great book! Anyone intersted in the masters life should definitly get this book. It is written by his ex-wife, the only person in the world who knew him best. There are great photos, and great detail about their lives together. I have been a fan for over 15 years, and this one is one of the best biographies I've ever read about the greatest martial artist, and philosipher who ever lived. Highly recommended!Book Review: A wonderful book for anyone intersted in Bruce Lee's life!
Summary: 5 Stars
I have read this book twice, what a great book! Anyone intersted in the masters life should definitly get this book. It is written by Mrs. Lee, the only person in the world who knew him best. There are great photos, and great detail about their lives together. I have been a fan for over 10 years, and this one is one of the best biographys I've ever read about the greatest martial artist, and philosipher who ever lived.Book Review: Basically informative, with some mythmaking thrown in
Summary: 3 Stars
An OK book, as far as propaganda biographies go. But if you want to read one genuinely great book about Bruce Lee, make it THE TAO OF BRUCE LEE by Davis Miller, which I recommend over any other biography of Lee. Davis Miller's book is beautiful, funny, sad, a pageturner, and it's the only book to sort through all the hokum and myths to give us something real-world and true.Book Review: Better Than You Think!
Summary: 5 Stars
Like many Bruce Lee fans, I was dubious when picking up this book, suspecting it would be too sentimental and one-sided, glossing over the "true facts." However, don't be misled-- this book is GREAT. Easily among the two or three best Bruce Lee biographies, if not the best. Very well written, well organized, great rare photos. Linda does a fantastic job of giving us an idea of who Bruce Lee was, from the singular perspective of the person who truly knew him best. Sure, it glosses over the more controversial topics that have surfaced over the years (e.g., alleged drug use, personality problems, the circumstances surrounding his death). But you'll come away with a profound respect for the integrated depth of Bruce's genius, his commitment to his family, and his profound sense of integrity and character. And you'll notice that the qualities Linda chooses to highlight are in fact the ones that come out in his art as well as his screen persona. For example, here's a man who, feeling the weight of racial prejudice against himself, was nonetheless willing to physically fight a fellow Chinese for the right to teach Kung Fu to whites! That story is well-known, but the way Linda captures it illustrates Bruce's commitment to principles and his global perspective. Linda does a great job of balancing Bruce Lee as a profound philosopher as well as a uniquely gifted physical specimen. She makes you understand that it was more than simply his physical gifts that made him who he was. Perhaps Karate master Ed Parker said it best: Bruce was "one in two billion." In Linda's book, you'll be amazed at how disciplined, far-seeing, and erudite Bruce Lee was-- at such a young age. He was simply WAY ahead of his time. One could easily say that, through the medium of film, Bruce Lee singlehandedly effected a paradigm shift in the world's perception of martial arts, Asian males, eastern philosophy, and action films. This book is a very illuminating and satisfying read.