Wise Guy

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Wise Guys takes an honest and clever look at the current state of manhood/fatherhood. The book is laid out in easy to digest chapters, a conversational style, and questions to provoke personal growth. When an author starts out in the introduction by relating his theme to The Princess Bride, you know it’s going to be an enjoyable book, even if it does step on your toes a bit. Kent interjects wit and humor throughout the book to keep the mood light and provide an entertaining read. This is not necessarily a book for group study, although it could be adapted for that pretty easily. I see it more as a personal study where you put yourself in the author's personal stories. Each chapter begins with a personal story and ends with a section titled "lessons learned" that describes key points or lessons to be learned from each situation. The last chapter gives you "three steps you can take right now" and "eleven tips to help you be a wise guy hunter". What happens when a young man grows up and thinks he needs no father? It’s not a great reach from there to the conclusion that he doesn’t need to be one, either. And the cycle continues.” urn:lcp:wiseguy00nich_aso:epub:1228e7a8-2712-43a3-bf07-6eadd713a8d9 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier wiseguy00nich_aso Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t1kh2tv9r Invoice 11 Isbn 0671447343

The Boston College point shaving scheme, for example. It's barely alluded to in Goodfellas (just once, by a low level con man named Morris, right before Tommy, Joe Pesci's famously terrifying character, drives a shiv repeatedly into his brain stem). Wiseguy, with more room to roam, delves into the nitty gritty. If, like me, you're fascinated by such details, then the book is an indispensable companion of the film.

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Kent has provided sixteen personal stories in this book about men that have influenced his life. They involve men whom God placed in Kent's life, often at crucial junctures when he was ready to listen. The goal of this book is for the reader to consider people in their own lives whom they could approach for help when they need it based on Kent's personal experiences. The "wise guys" in this book are unique to the author, but there are men like them in each of our lives. He exposes points in his life for all to see, whether they be proud or good hearted or shameful or painful moments. The goal of Wise Guys, according to its author, is to help men again learn how to learn from each other. Evans takes the reader through 16 stories of men whom he feels God has placed in his path during crucial junctures in his life.

The purpose of this book is not to help the reader understand the author’s intention or life story. Neither is it to gather something “to learn” from the title. Rather, the purpose is singular: to re-instill in the male reader the need to journey through life with other men and to seek counsel from other men. The need to learn how to learn from other men. The realization that not having a father figure in one’s youth does not remove a father figure in one’s adulthood. The acceptance that not having a dad does not mean not having a father, because there are other men that can help fill that need. These goals, these purposes, are of great benefit to the male reader, and this book is best for any male that struggled with having a father figure or need to learn how to be one themselves. I bet that counts most of us in. The author writes convincingly and in an easy prose to read along, so what’s the harm in spending one’s afternoon seeing what the full book as to say? Nicholas Pileggi, the co-writer of Martin Scorsese’s crime epic “Goodfellas,” which starred De Niro, is penning the screenplay for “Wise Guys.” (“Goodfellas” is based on Pileggi’s 1985 book “Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family,” though it’s unrelated to Levinson’s film.) Directed by Scorsese from a screenplay by himself and Eric Roth, Killers of the Flower Moon boasts a seriously star-studded cast led by Emmy nominee and the star of Breaking Bad, Jesse Plemons as lawman, Tom White, with DiCaprio due to play Ernest Burkhart alongside De Niro as his uncle, the American cattleman and convicted murderer William Hale. The book “Wiseguy” is about Henry Hill a member of the Lucchese crime family.The book itself tells a different perspective of the “Mob”. Its seen through the eyes of Nicholas Pileggi the author but told to by Hill himself . It displays an interesting outlook,Mob movies books characters have fascinated the world for so long and its the belief that their is another world more exhilarating and exciting fast paced and the common person is just looking to escape the real world into a book or another life.

The book was interesting and very informative. I found it very helpful and saw a lot of areas that I could learn from other guys in. There are a lot of books out there for women, and the Christian book market seems to aimed at women. This book though is just for men. Women could read it, but there really isn't much for women in it. Sorry ladies. :) With a mixture of self-deprecating humor and personal stories, Evans leads the reader through the life lessons he has learned from 16 diverse men. The author attributes much of the decline in mentoring to the rapid growth of fatherless homes and absentee dads over the last 50 years.

The idea of this book is that we men tend to try to do everything ourselves and have the idea that it is unmanly to seek advice or help from other guys. The author covers such things as how to correct gently, always be asking, exercise tangible grace, and many others covered in the 17 chapters. I waited for this book for a long time. Watched my favorite movie "Goodfellas" based on this book several times. So when I got the hard copy of the book, I could not resist myself finishing it at once. It is As good as the movie. But if someone watches the movie, the book is waste of time in my opinion. The movie is a total honest representation of the book. But my case is different. I love to read about Mafia. :) Nicholas Pileggi's non fiction book, ' Wiseguy', is the basis for the film, GoodFellas, directed by Martin Scorsese (1990). It's the true story of Henry Hill, a member of the Lucchese organised crime family in New York. Henry's heyday takes place during the 1960s and 1970s when he works under the protection of mob boss Paul Vario in the Brownsville-East New York section of Brooklyn. Needless to say, Henry and his pals are amoral scumbags, and Hill is a sociopath whose justification for his crimes is that his needs outweigh everyone else's, and he dismisses anyone who is hardworking, honest or trusting as weak and just asking to be ripped off.

The premature death of mentoring is the lament of Kent Evans’ first book, Wise Guys. The author states, “We are individualistic to a fault. We esteem the self-made man . . . No one tells us what to do, especially not a king or queen. Our nation has enjoyed tremendous financial blessings – and a dose of the prideful spirit those blessings often bring.” It wasn’t that Henry was a boss. And it had nothing to do with his lofty rank within a crime family or the easy viciousness with which hoods from Henry’s world are identified. Henry, in fact, was neither of high rank nor particularly vicious; he wasn’t even tough as far as the cops could determine. What distinguished Henry from most of the other wiseguys who were under surveillance was the fact that he seemed to have total access to all levels of the mob world.” If you’re like most men,” writes Evans, “when you think of who you are, you don’t have a person in mind; you have a role. If we are to harvest lessons from other men, we must become situational observers.”