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I Am Jackie Chan

My Life in Action

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I Am Jackie Chan

By: Jackie Chan
Narrated by: Daxing Zhang
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In you are fan of action—adventure movies with the accent on action—then you no doubt love watching Jackie Chan risk his life to create sensational cinema. As one of the biggest stars to burst into U.S. theaters, Jackie has put America's hottest heroes to shame, wowing audiences with the breathless death-defying stunts that are the highlight of such movies as Rumble in the Bronx, Supercop, Operation: Condor, and his newest blockbuster Rush Hour. But who really is the boyishly handsome, lightening-fast Charlie Chaplin of martial arts movie making?

I Am Jackie Chan is the fascinating, harrowing, ultimately triumphant story of his life: How the rebellious son of refugees in tumultuous 1950s Hong Kong became the disciplined disciple of a Chinese Opera Master. How the "paradise" that young Jackie so eagerly embraced proved to be, in reality, a ruthlessly competitive place. How the dying art of Chinese opera led Jackie to the movie business—and how he made the leap from stunt man to superstar. Finally, after years of plunging off skyscrapers and living to tell the tale, Jackie Chan proves with this poignant, witty, and often astonishing memoir that it's always been a tale worth telling.

©1998 Jackie Chan (P)1998 Dove Audio, 2016 Phoenix Books Combat Sports & Self-Defense Entertainment & Celebrities Martial Arts Celebrity China Witty Opera Combat Sports

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I'm a Jackie Chan fan so love this book. Short and sweet you don't need anymore than that

Live Jackie Chan

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I enjoyed this book so much I didn't want it to end.
The different phases of his life was laid out so that we can understand the chronological. The mention of the most influential films helps us follow it.
Jackie Chan also proves that every person has a hero on their lives, which inspires them or in this case forced upon on.

I loved this book. can't wait to read his next biography.

I woke up being Jackie. His life is incredible.

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I really enjoyed listening to Jackie chan story and I would highly recommend it 😊

Best life story

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Starting his life in extraordinary way and spending his childhood in such a strict and cruel place away from his family. He was taken to live at the Chinese drama school for 10 yrs, it's no wonder he becomes such a commited and talented acrobat/kung foo expert.
Really enjoyed reading/listening to this, even though in parts found it quite sad

Great insight to great actor

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Tremendous life story but this abbreviated version has a lot missing. Still well worth a listen.

Good but a bit short

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Lovechild story it told in a way as if yout friend was talking to you wish it was longer but still great

Great story

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If you are Jackie Chan fan you must listen or read this book. I enjoyed listening!

If you are fan

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it was amazing , a must listen . it really inspires me to be better!

The Best Thing I Have Heard!!

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I was really looking forward to this audiobook having read Jackie Chans biography numerous times. Unfortunately the narrator continually stumbles over words with many syllables emphasised in the wrong place making it very difficult to listen to without getting distracted. There are also quite a number of sections of the book that have been cut out which unfortunately detracts from the overall story. My suggestion would be that if you want to learn more about Jackie's really interesting life, don't bother with this audiobook - just get a copy of the actual text and read it.

Really disappointing version of brilliant book

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Its essentially missing half the book, I can never understand why these things are made

Why oh why did I not realise this was abridged

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