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• Published on: 2014-01-01
• Released on: 2013-07-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.00" h x 1.10" w x 5.00" l, .0 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 384 pages

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"A first-class comic. His autobiography, Mack the Life, has all the cheerful candour of one of his barnstorming shows. Mack has polished this narrative until it shines, and his book is a joy to read, full of homespun wisdom and hilarious asides." Independent "A cracking read. Jokes liberally dot the narrative ... a frank picture of a man who can't believe his luck, but still manages to keep his feet on the ground" Chortle "a truly fascinating read, genuinely funny throughout" British Comedy Guide

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Mack's Mix of Anecdotes and Analysis
By Jaime Nelson
When Lee Mack’s autobiography, Mack the Life, arrived in the post, I thought What the hell kind of editor let a comedian get away with his first book clocking in at 415 pages? I was recently the editor of a comedy memoir, and one thing I learned from researching the genre was that readers don’t want more than 250 pages of listening to you. Even Lee Mack says he only does one half of a standup show (meaning no intermission) because that’s more than enough to ask of people to sit through listening to one person. However, despite my initial reaction, the 415 pages flew by, and when I got to the end, I wished there were more pages because I was sad it was over.

Mack the Life is a chronological telling of Lee Mack (ne McKillop)’s life from growing up in a pub to today’s status of one of Britain’s best liked comedians. It’s strictly a “how I got into comedy” with a bit of psychoanalysis thrown in book, and so does not go into family life or much else.

This is a self-aware book. You get the sense that Lee Mack has a first-time-author glee, as he will sometimes purposely leave in typos because he found them amusing when coming across them in the proofread. He will footnote certain marker points, like 70,000 with a Jaffa Cake reward. He doesn’t do research and admits his ignorance if he forgets someone’s name or has made something up because he doesn’t actually know how it works. He’s also a comedian who likes to second guess his audience, as you’ll know if you’re familiar with his “some wanker always says comedian” t-shirt routine, so in the book you’ll find gags like this one:

“Comedians don’t go round seeing funny things, they see things that they can make funny. There’s an important difference. In fact, some comedians do the almost impossible and see funny things that they then make unfunny, but enough of _ _ _ _ _ _ _ (fill in your own name according to who you dislike. And if you’re thinking of putting my name in there, count the dashes. I’m ahead of you.)"

Although there are a lot of interesting pre-showbiz stories–riding Red Rum, being fired from the bluecoats for calling the audience the C-word, training to be a professional darts player–the book really peaks once Mack starts to break into the industry. That first moment he was ever in a comedy club and got to see the likes of Eddie Izzard and Steve Coogan, how his career kicked off with a live sketch show he did with Catherine Tate, how Steve Coogan later offered him a TV gig based on those sketches, how he was cast in the American remake of that show opposite Kelsey Grammer, and the agonizing scenes of his So You Think You’re Funny performance going horribly wrong from inside a prop wardrobe. Mack’s analysis of showbiz is thorough (and largely what I was hoping most to read about). He talks about the differences between actors and comedians who act, sitcoms vs. realism comedy dramas, and American sitcoms vs. British sitcoms. If there’s anything missing from this section, it’s characterization. Although he seems to have liked a lot of people, you get no sense of “what was it like to work with Catherine Tate?” for example. You get very little real-time scenes, except for the wardrobe scene, of course. It’s hard to tell if this is something he could have improved upon or if it was a conscious decision because he thought characterization wasn’t relevant or it was dangerous from a legal standpoint.

In the same way that Hot Fuzz highlights paperwork because it takes up most of police officers’ time yet is never mentioned in films and TV, Mack the Life highlights the writing process because a key to comedy success is making the jokes look effortless, which means it’s easy to forget (and yet essential to forget) that most of a comedian’s time is spent writing. We see in detail the thought process that went into creating the characters, situation, and plot of the Not Going Out pilot, as though we are experiencing his brainstorm in real time. One of the best parts of the book is when he gives us a bunch of his awful early one-liners.

“Picking up a rubber snake and doing a deliberately bad ventriloquist act saying ‘One plus one is two, two plus two is four, four plus four is eights.’ Then, looking at the audience, I would say ‘He’s an adder.’"

Creating Not Going Out is personally my favorite part of the book. In many ways, the British sitcom (as a genre) was dead by the time Not Going Out started shooting, but that’s why they did it. Mack talks about his research in creating the sitcom, how he’d been directed that there needs to be a joke a page, but when he looked at American sitcoms, which have a big team of writers instead of just one like British sitcoms, he realized they needed a lot more than just one joke per page. He goes on to talk about casting and how he preferred working with comedians who could act rather than actors who could deliver a joke. His original co-star left after one season, which he blames on himself for being difficult to work with as a control freak, but also recognizes an underlying problem of cultural differences (her being American and him being Lancastrian). In fact, if you are American, this may be a very good bio for you to read because of the occasional musings on the differences between British and American comedy/showbiz/psyches.

Mack has nothing but wonderful things to say about his current co-stars and talks about how happy he is that his cast are all normal people. This is something else I like about the book: He recognizes the difference between telly people and normal people. He’s annoyed that telly people are all yes-men who will tell you that your ideas are great even if they aren’t, when all he wants, as a writer, is some proper, truthful feedback. He’s also a comedian who has said that his real friends (save perhaps Sean Lock and Catherine Tate) are not comedians. I like that he’s able to take a few paces back from showbiz and recognize that it isn’t how the rest of the world functions and it isn’t a world he wants to be completely consumed by. Although this book isn’t about his family, you definitely come away from it understanding that his wife and three kids are his priority and he looks forward to retiring early so he can potter about the house and eat chocolate in the shed.

Finally, each chapter ends with a transcription of meetings he had with a psychologist who read an earlier draft of the book. He hired her in hopes of adding some depth to the book (which he says he did go back and retool the book some after meeting with her). Toward the beginning of the book, she diagnoses him with ADHD and explains his self preservation, likely built up in reaction to his father walking out on his family. Mack’s distracted thoughts intermingle with the dialogue. After these initial sessions, the later psychologist segments just serve as devices for gags, such as admitting he changed something she said to make him look better. I wish these sections went more into depth, but what I found most interesting was his own self analysis. He recognizes that he (as well as many comedians) value the trait of being funny as more important (and sometimes it is the only important trait) than anything else, like being kind or loyal. I can relate to this. I was recently asked how my job interview went. I replied, “I made the HR person laugh a few times.” I thought nothing strange about my response until I read Mack the Life and realized that that is not the traditional response to someone asking how a job interview went. Usually people talk about the questions or their answers, showing up on time, whether they were asked back. I realized that I responded to the question in the way I did because coming across as funny was really the only thing I valued.

Before I read Mack the Life, I’d heard that Lee Mack had written the book completely on his own, no ghostwriter (possibly no developmental editor either?), so as a developmental editor myself, I was wary to the quality of the writing. There were definitely things that could have been edited, as he does that thing that comics do where they write the same thing two or three times but in different ways. I think this must come from writing for the stage because if you can get three consecutive laughs by saying the same thing in three different ways, that’s three times the laughs you would have gotten by saying it once. The book medium doesn’t have the same rules because it’s not about quantity of laughs but about moving the story and giving the reader new information. This is a minor point and something other comedian book writers do sometimes. Overall, the book is well-written. He doesn’t get in the way of his writing more than he needs to, he manages to address the reader directly without turning the reader off, and he keeps the prose lively with surprising gags that will make you laugh out loud in a crowded train. As much as he dances around the ending, discussing the difficulties in ending a book (so difficult, in fact, he wanted to do two books so that he could put off writing the ending), it actually has the perfect tone. It’s slowed down. It’s slightly reflective but mostly opinionated, conversational. You can almost hear the fasten seatbelt sign ding on as the plane gets ready to relax into it’s final descent. I know, not a good metaphor as Lee Mack is afraid of flying.

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Brilliant !
By KNR 325
I adore Lee Mack. This book doesn't disappoint. Its lively, witty and entertaining. I have really enjoyed reading Lee's explanations of the craft of comedy and how, like most things in life, the effortless effect we see on TV or live on stage, is actually the culmination of hard work.

I love his small, insightful comments, such as the difference between being recognised and recognition; and the name-altering trend universities went through in the mid-90s.

Highly recommended if you have watched Lee in 'Not Going Out' or as a team captain on 'Would I Lie to You' and you would like to know more about him.

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Hilarious and different
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Mixing autobiography with one-liners throughout, this is a fine read by one of the funniest men alive. There's a reason you can't take your eyes off of him during each episode of Not Going Out...and why hs tours sell out everywhere he does standup. Lee's one of Britain's most celebrated actor/comedians righ now--though less familiar to Americans. A book I laughed through, and then gave three copies as holiday presents.

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• Original language: English
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Edited by Silke Machold, University of Wolverhampton, UK, Morten Huse, Reinhard-Mohn Chair of Management and Governance, University of Witten/Herdecke, Germany and Professor of Organisation and Management, BI Norwegian Business School, Norway, Katrin Hansen, Westfälische Hochschule, Germany and Marina Brogi, Vice-Dean, Faculty of Economics, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

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This book examines the fierce theological controversy over the great Muslim mystical thinker Ibn 'Arabi (1165-1242). Even during his lifetime, Ibn 'Arabi's conformity with the letter of the Muslim dogma was called into doubt by many scholars who were suspicious of the monistic (unitive) tendencies of his metaphysical teaching, of his claims to be the Prophet's successor and restorer of the true meaning of the Islamic revelation, and of his allegorical interpretation of the Qur'an. In thoroughly analyzing the heated debates around Ibn 'Arabi's ideas throughout the three centuries following his death, this study brings out discursive strategies and arguments employed by the polemicists, the hidden agendas they pursued, and the reasons for the striking longevity of the issue in Islamic literature up to the present day. On the theoretical level, this book reassesses the validity of such common dichotomies as orthodoxy versus heresy, mainstream versus mystical interpretations of Islam, and communalism versus individualism as well as other issues related to the history of Islamic thought.

• Sales Rank: #1483146 in Books
• Color: Blue
• Published on: 1998-12-23
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.00" h x 1.05" w x 6.00" l, 1.33 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 466 pages

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"Knysh has looked at exactly who were the supporters and opponents of Ibn 'Arabi for several centuries after his death, where they were getting their information, why they should have taken the position they took, and so forth. The author brings together a lot of tidbits in the secondary literature that people have not connected, and he does so with careful attention to the primary texts." -- William C. Chittick, author of The Self Disclosure of God: Principles of Ibn 'Arabi's Cosmology

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Alexander D. Knysh is The Sharjah Professor of Islamic Studies, Department of Arabic and Middle East Studies, University of Exeter, United Kingdom.

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The Great Sheykh and his detractors
By Linas Kondratas
The book of A.D. Knysh is an excellent reader for those who are interested not only in the personality of Ibn Arabi himself or his ideas, but also in the reception of these ideas by the medieval Muslim society (second half of XIII to XV centuries) in the framework of which Ibn Arabi lived. The author takes completely impartial, scholarly position without leaning for or against the Great Sheykh. The author limits himself to Arab speaking regions (Egypt and Syria, Maghreb and Yemen) This reception as it appears was far from unanimous and produced a heated polemics which started just two decades after Great Sheykh's death. The detractors of Ibn Arabi who were more numerous than supporters subjected Ibn Arabi's work to rigorous criticism and very often outright condemnation. One of the driving forces behind the criticism was the care of the Islamic scholars about the interest of the community and their apprehension that Ibn Arabi's monistic worldview blurring the distinction between God and the world, and the idea about the invisible hierarchy of saints etc. can make prejudice to the beliefs, morality and social order of the Islamic ummah. The struggle for the ideas of Ibn Arabi was not always disinterested struggle on dogmatic matters, it was often related with the vying for quite "earthly" things such as official positions, power and social prestige. Quite often the deabate was quite dangerous and fraught with serious consequences for those involved in it. A.Knysh shows that the detractors of Ibn Arabi were not completely able to comprehend the entire sophistication of Great Sheykh's style and ideas. Yet, to his opinion, they were able comprehend the key issues of his teaching especially those which can ideological or social relevance to broad masses of the believers. However the usual taxonomic schema used by medieval authors to classify the figures of the Islamic thought(specialist of hadith, jurist, theologian, mystic) has appeared inappropriate to fully comprehend the sophisticated teachings of the Great Sheykh which defied all the attempts of classification( extreme literalism and thorough going exotericism both present in the works of Ibn Arabi). Besides that under the main themes in Ibn Arabi's became settled there were little attempt to cast a fresh into the Sheykh's work. The detractors, as well as the supporters, are shown to be not limited to any particular school or sect, rather the line between being pro- or against Ibn Arabi runs across various schools. The author shows that being anti Ibn Arabi by far was not equivalent with being anti Sufi, and that the absolute majority of the detractors were in one or other form affiliated with Sufism or exposed to its ideas. A.Knysh equally questions the usual assumption about the struggle between " "Theologians" with "Sufis" showing that most of the participants of the debate were all the three, and that the debate was the encounter between the various standpoints in both theology and Sufism. A. Knysh also questions the usual assumption when Islam is presented as an "orthoprax" religion where dogmatic difference are not so important when the requirements of ritual decorum are satisfied. The heated debated on the doctrinal issues concerning the "unity of being" clearly show the opposite. While describing the reception of Ibn Arabi's ideas in the Western part of the Islamic world the author shows that differently from the Eastern lands of Islam, Ibn Arabi was not considered here such paramount figure or founder of the monistic school, but rather as a representative of the broader tradition or "plot" of monists, and Ibn Sab`in, another monistic Sufi from Maghreb was considered of equal importance to Ibn Arabi, if not greater. A.Knysh devotes separate chapters or parts of them to some of more known detractors of Ibn Arabi such as Syrian Shafi`i scholar Izz al-Din Abd al-Salam who as the first detractor and contemporary of Ibn Arabi had great importance to later makers of the polemic image, to well-know Hanbali Ibn Taimiyya, and to Hanafite al-Taftazani. In the chapter devoted to Maghreb he analyses three specific personalities, one of them being the famous Ibn Khaldoon. Chapters are also devoted to the reception of Ibn Arabi's ideas in Mamlook kingdom of Egypt and Syria, and in Yemen. Since the Islamic life of Yemen is relatively little known, and A.Knysh is one of the leading experts on Yemeni Islam, this chapter of his book is especially interesting and instructive.

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A classic debate in Medieval Islam
By Rumi Fan
This is an incredible piece of scholarship. Professor Knysh, a Russian scholar of Islam, demonstrates his mastery of the vast literature of Islam in various languages including Arabic, Turkish, German, French, and Russian. This is the first major account of the intellectual battles raging on in the Middle East between two opposing giants: the school of Ibn Arabi and the school of Ibn Taymiyya. However, to be fair, it is mostly concerned with the scholarly attacks led by Ibn Taymiyya against the doctrine of wahdat al-wujud of Ibn Arabi. What makes this account so fascinating is the survey of the political and intellectual environment of Medieval Damascus, and Egypt.

It is clear from Professor Knysh's analysis how important the ulama and Islamic religious institutions were for Muslim Sultans, rulers, and princes. In particular, it highlights the intricate, and complex relationship between the Mamluk state and the religious scholars of Islam. The 13th century was a watershed moment in Islamic political history with the Mongol devastation in the central Muslim lands and the continuous Christian Crusades into the Levant. While it seemed that Muslim civilization was on the brink of collapse from these two assaults, along come the Mamluks of Damascus and Egypt who boldly stopped the Mongol advance in Palestine in the famous battle of Ayn Jalut, near present day Galilea. The role of the stalwart Mamluks in well known to peole of the Middle East. However, what is often overlook in the patronage and funding that the Mamluks provided to Islamic learning and to Islamic scholars. This is witnessed by the huge number of sufi lodges and madrasas supported and funded by Mamluk princes and rulers. Scholars such as Ibn Taymiyya, Ibn Arabi, al-Dhahabi, and Ibn Atallah were some of the major scholars who owed their support to the Mamluk rulers of that time, though the relationship with Ibn Taymiyya is complicated by the persecution he faced by his opponents.

Knyshs' contribution to this important time period is to lay out a narrative which demonstrates the critique of some of the theological views of Ibn Arabi by Ibn Taymiyya and his ideological supporters. He traces how the critique developed and who the central partisans were. It is clear from Professor Knysh's analysis that Ibn Taymiyya was not anti-tasawwuf or sufism. Many opponents of tasawwuf today use Ibn Taymiyya as a sword in discrediting sufism and undermining its legitimacy in Islam. However, this view is misplaced given that Ibn Taymiyya commended many aspects of sufi practice and also praised many sufi leaders and thinkers. Ibn Taymiyya's main problem was the central cosmological worldview of Ibn Arabi's wahdat al-wujud which is often referred to Islamic "monism." This view essentially argues that God is the only true reality while everything thing else he creates is temporary and unreal.

The footnotes are useful and comprehensive but often hinder the narrative of the story. But this is to be expected in a scholarly work. This book is not for novices but for those who are acquainted with the Islamic scholarly and intellectual tradition.

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• Published on: 2008-01-21
• Original language: English
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Sheridan joined the merchant marines after high school, eventually graduated from Harvard, and worked his way to Australia on a yacht. There, in 1999, he decided to indulge his fascination with fighting, hoping to test himself and explore what has become a mostly sublimated aspect of masculinity. After some months of training in Australia, he moved to Bangkok to train with a legendary Muay Thai (kickboxing) champion. That experience--and his first professional bout--expanded into a multiyear odyssey in which he trained with Olympic boxers, Brazilian jujitsu champions, and Ultimate Fighting combatants. The magic in his account is in the telling detail--not only about how he suffers, trains, and fights but also about his reactions to his surroundings; the way, for example, he finds himself gradually becoming indifferent to the street orphans of Brazil, desensitized by their very omnipresence. It isn't Sheridan's toughness or fearlessness that makes this an involving excursion into a shadow world; it's his ability to re-create the textures of those shadows and to make us care about his oddly quixotic journey. Wes Lukowsky
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By Hulk hands
This book is the story of a man's journey through various forms of combat and competition. The author, Sam, tells his story of travelling the world and investigating the culture of fighting positing questions like "Why do people fight?" while discovering things about himself and his own motivations along the way.

Sam's adventures can be relevant even to those who are not particularly interested in martial arts and can appeal far beyond martial arts enthusiasts to anyone who has an interest in the human condition. From the perspective of the author as a student of numerous martial arts philosophies throughout the story, we learn the common denominator of all forms of combat in which humans play a part (even a few involving animals, like dog fighting). The author does not hide the grim reality of injuries that result from participating in these martial arts, as he receives a good deal of punishment in the course of learning, all of the events that transpire are in the spirit of exploration of the common denominator.
Activities the author studies range from Tai Chi to Muay thai to western boxing to Brazilian Jujitsu and beyond. When I began reading the book I was mildly interested in the author's experience studying Muay Thai abroad, my initial motivation for reading the book, but by the end I could appreciate in more depth the motivations of practitioners of violence from MMA fighters to pit bulls.

There are several major appealing factors of this book.
1) It attempts to make hand-to-hand combat relevant even to the non-fighter
2) The sheer scope of styles covered can be a draw to anyone with a general interest in martial arts
3) Even those who do not condone physical combat can appreciate the honesty of of the author in his quest for understanding the fighting spirit
4) The author is a great storyteller, and spins his yarn to engage and relate to the reader

I'm a poor reader, generally speaking, but I could not put this book down once I started reading it. I highly recommend it.

I never too much interest in fighting before a couple months ago, but I recently started doing muay thai (kickboxing) and a friend told me about this book. If you're not a fighter, but have ever wondered why people make such a fuss over these brutal spectacles, this book will give you a peek into the mind of a fighter. If you are a practitioner of combative sports, I think you'll be able to relate to Sam, his questions, and his adventures all the more.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Plenty of "Heart"
By Kaye Washington
A Fighter's Heart by Sam Sheridan decodes the mystery of the pugilistic, roughhousing or mixing it up instinct, one I never really "got." There has been plenty said and written about the urge or instinct, but "Heart" provides a context, a ringside view in setting after setting, one fight then another, on one continent and then another, in the experiences the author (also a fighter) has in Eastern and Western styles, from the ancient, classic and traditional to the newer, Mixed Martial Arts fighting forms. If you never really understood why a person would as an amateur, a pro or for play start, join or continue a fight, then you'll be intrigued by this page turner. The reasons for the fight are more than "just meet me outside," more than we ever might have figured. On the home front, Sheridan gives us a look at the making of 2004 Olympic Gold medalist for the U.S., Andre Ward and his trainer, Virgil Hunter.

0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Great read. I'll read any of Sam Sheridan's books.
By bjorn hansen
Great read. I'll read any of Sam Sheridan's books. In fact I'm already half way through "A Fighter's Mind". If you liked "A Fighters Heart" you gotta check out "A fighters mind".

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