The Time of My Life
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In a career spanning more than thirty years, Patrick Swayze has made a name for himself on the stage, the screen, and television. Known for his versatility, passion and fearlessness, he’s become one of our most beloved actors.
But in February 2008, Patrick announced he had been diagnosed with stage IV pancreatic cancer. Permanently a fighter, he refused to let the disease bring him to his knees, and his bravery has inspired both his legion of fans and cancer patients everywhere. Yet this memoir, written with wisdom and heart, recounts much more than his bout with cancer. In plain detail, Patrick describes his Texas upbringing, his personal struggles, his rise to fame with North and South, his commercial breakthroughs in Dirty Dancing and Ghost, and the soul mate who’s stood by his side through it all: his wife, writer and director Lisa Niemi.
A behind-the-scenes look at a Hollywood life and a remarkable like, this memoir is both entertainment and inspiration. Patrick and Lisa’s marriage is a journey of two lives intertwined and lived as one–throughout their years in Hollywood and at home on their effective ranch outside Los Angeles, and culminating in the hope and wisdom they’ve imparted to all who know them. This book will open the door for families, individuals, and husbands and wives to grow, bond and learn entirely new levels of like and sharing, proving that life shouldn’t be lived as a series of endings, but rather as the beginning of greater might and like.
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Since I am a Huge Swayze fan, all I can say is terrific.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
From what I can gather Lisa gave up smoking, yet I’m not 100% sure of that, but he was a very heavy smoker, at least 3 packs a day at one time, plus the drinking when he was feeling sorry for himself, which seemed to be most of the time.
I reflect he probably did like Lisa, but he loved himself more and I feel he ‘used’ her for his own gain; maybe not at first but certainly later on. Look at all she did for him and here & there in the book he gave her credit but not regularly. She most likely would have had a terrific career had she not married him.
Very, very self-centered and yet insecure at the same time. Maybe the insecurity made him self-centered, I don’t know. From what he wrote I’d have to say he got his insecurity from his mother because he nor the additional sibs could ever reasonably meet her expectations.
I reflect the best word I can find to clarify him is, Whiner. It seemed he was permanently whining about most everything.
When he was filming in India portraying that doctor, he told of things he’d done in the charity hospital to “help out” and in the leper colony etc. but in my mind it was more the attitude of “Look at ME ME ME. I’m really helping these people.” Everything he may have done over there to help out was for his own benefit so the focus remained on him. When I read that part I said to myself: “Patrick? what did you really DO? If you cared so much for persons poor people and you had this gorgeous ranch back in the States, why didn’t you get antibiotics for persons clinics in India and really DO SOMETHING that would benefit them?”
He’s still one-sexy-dude but in truth, I wished I hadn’t read the book. I’d rather have been the ostrich with its head in the sand. The book in my mind has diminished him in my eyes.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
i recieved the book in fantastic condition.
iam a huge fan of patrick swayze.
thank you
form,
danielle moore
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
I’ve permanently loved Patrick Swayze, so of course I bought the book….The man obviously was very competant – but – like most Hollywood personalities, he was incredibly self absorbed. I once was a Hollywood Wife, so I know the type – and this book was yet another form of chest thumping – even as the man was on deaths door….On the additional hand, it was appealing to some degree, although this book will never win any prizes. It’s a so-so weekend read.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
I ongoing reading this on a plane & could not place it down. From start to end, it is an appealing & astonishing read. I am filled with such marvel & amazement at all the wonderful things Patrick Swayze did with his life. And that doesn’t even include his courageous battle with pancreas cancer. He was a fantastic football player til a knee injury place an end to that dream. Then he went to New York & became a dancer until that same knee injury squashed that dream. He was superb in gymnastics & at one time, b/4 the knee injury, had wanted to train for the Olympics. He then went on to become a legendary actor & even a pilot! He could sing & was also a songwriter. He could ride horses, take any motor apart, could box with the best of them & very veteran with martial arts. He would research each & every acting part he had & even rewrite the scripts with his wife Lisa to make them the best they could be. He also was a faithful & adoring spouse who loved his wife more than anything. I was SO impressed by this book & with this awesome man that could do anything! This is the reason you write an autobiography, when you’ve done fantastic things to back it up.
The only thing I wish he would have admitted (& maybe he does, I still have about a dozen pages left) is that his 3 pack a day cigarette smoking & his heavy drinking throughout many periods of his life, is what he could have done differently & he may not have gotten pancreas cancer. Michael Landon also drank & smoked heavily & he died of the same disease. Patrick questions in the very beginning of the book what he could have done differently & why this happened to him & I reflect persons 2 things are what happened. Anytime a person smokes that heavy & drinks heavy, they are not going to live to a ripe ancient age. Especially smoking 3 packs of cigarettes a day nearly their entire life. He would have finished up with lung cancer eventually anyway. My father died of lung cancer at 53 yrs. ancient & it’s a terrible way to die. I don’t know why he never tried to give up the smoking.
This book is a wonderful book though & shows what a dedicated, kind, sensitive, loving, intelligent & generous man Patrick Swayze was. I wish he could have lived to a ripe ancient age. I have so much admiration for all the things he did with his life. I recommend this book highly, I just can’t say enough excellent things about it. I could not place it down factually & every page was so appealing. He was one of the greatest men that ever lived & Lisa was a very lucky woman to have been so loved by this marvel of a man. He also could bear so much physical pain it was reasonably extraordinary. Sometimes it seemed he was nearly super human. Rest in peace Patrick. You were a excellent man & I judge you have a place in Heaven one day. You made the world a much better place & your time to place here was way too soon.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5