Total recall amazon book
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Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story
You see, I'm an 80s kid so I grew up in the years when his most iconic movies came out. Moreover, he's a German-speaker and there aren't a whole lot of that who make it onto the big screen (in America, no less) so that gave him extra bonus points.
I'm delighted to say that he's even more cool than I thought. Of course, this is an auto-biography so it's also self-marketing. However, the fantastic thing is that Arnie ALWAYS admits to mistakes. He doesn't cover them up or tries to excuse them away.
We start in Thal, Austria, where he was born in 1947. "Seeing" how he grew up, the era through his eyes as much as his personal story, was quite impressing. I keep forgetting how old the guy is and what that means regarding the history he's lived through.
From here, we soon go into the bodybuilding business. I was very impressed with the "low-key" solutions he and people like him had to come up with back then
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Total Recall
One of the most anticipated autobiographies of this generation, Arnold Schwarzenegger's Total Recall is the candid story of one of the world's most remarkable actors, businessmen, and world leaders.
Born in the small city of Thal, Austria, in 1947, Arnold Schwarzenegger moved to Los Angeles at the age of 21. Within 10 years, he was a millionaire businessman. After 20 years, he was the world's biggest movie star. In 2003, he was elected governor of California and became a household name around the world.
Chronicling his embodiment of the American Dream, Total Recall covers Schwarzenegger's high-stakes journey to the United States, from creating the international bodybuilding industry out of the sands of Venice Beach, to breathing life into cinema's most iconic characters, and becoming one of the leading political figures of our time. Proud of his accomplishments and honest about his regrets, Schwarzenegger spares nothing in sharing his amazing story.
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Total Recall
Chapter 1
Out of Austria
I was born into a year of famine. It was 1947, and Austria was occupied by the Allied armies that had defeated Hitler’s Third Reich. In May, two months before I was born, there were hunger riots in Vienna, and in Styria, the southeastern province where we lived, the food shortages were just as bad. Years later, if my mother wanted to remind me about how much she and my father sacrificed to bring me up, she’d tell me how she’d foraged across the countryside, making her way from farm to farm to collect a little butter, some sugar, some grain. She’d be away three days sometimes. Hamstern, they called it, like a hamster gathering nuts; scrounging for food was so common.
Thal was the name of our very typical farm village. A few hundred families made up the entire population, their houses and farms clustered in hamlets connected by footpaths and lanes. The unpaved main road ran for a couple of kilometers up and down low alpine hills covered with fields and pine forests.
We saw very little of the British forces who were in charg
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