If Christian Bale really read this book to act better, I'm more impressed by than the endurance this book took for it than his acting (and that bar could not be higher). After grabbing my wallet and room key, I walked out the door. I had a couple hours until sundown so I decided to buy groceries. I walked to the office to ask the receptionist if she knew of any places where I could buy food. My map told me where Walgreens was but I wanted to make sure that it was still up to date [...] It took me about ten minutes to walk to Walgreens. I bought a few microwave meals and a couple of fruits. I called Jarrett while I was shopping and updated him about what had happened thus far.

Iceman: How the Wim Hof Method Creates R… The Way of the Iceman: How the Wim Hof Method Creates R…

Una historia real hecha ficción, tan aterradora, escalofriante, hiriente y provocativa. Richard Kuklinski, el retrato de un hombre cordial, padre devoto, vecino ejemplar..pero asesino serial en su alter ego. Durante 40 años mató a un centenar de personas, mientras todos creían que era un hombre ejemplar. Například, když se v příběhu objevila nová postala, tak hned po pár řádcích vyzvonil, jak se jejich vztah vyvine. Jestli ho ovlivní - pozitivně nebo i negativně. Někdy třeba řekl, že se něco později odehraje... a ejhle o 200 stránek dýl to popisuje. Tak proč to dopředu říkal? There’s a lot of front matter in this book (two forwards, a prologue, and an introduction), but the book more-or-less consists of seven chapters. The first of these is a mini-bio of Hof. It describes a fascinating event in Hof’s youth in which he was exposed to cold, as well as his travels to India in an attempt to find a yoga teacher. [As is the case with most people who come to India seeking to find that quintessential guru—i.e. a half-naked, weather-beaten, and forehead paint-streaked classical guru—he found that he had to wade through a sea of charlatans and shysters while never finding the true masters who are likely hidden away in caves in the Himalayas. Note: this is not to say that one can’t find excellent yoga instruction in India but it’ll likely be by someone fully-clothed and not someone smoking pot on a ghat in Varanasi.] This resulted in Hof taking an experimental approach in which he studied the effects of various activities on himself (and such experimentation is what he advocates for others as well.) It should be noted that Hof didn’t invent this method from scratch—e.g. the breath component is based on Tibetan Tummo meditation.Unfortunately, neither Wim nor Justin Rosales are good writers, and the quality of this book was nothing short of disappointing. The only reason I even gave it two stars was because of how impressive Wim's accomplishments are.

Becoming the Iceman: Pushing Past Perceived Limits (10th Becoming the Iceman: Pushing Past Perceived Limits (10th

This book has some great information, but it was written so badly, that it ended up thoroughly disappointing.When, at eighteen, Anna was forced to leave the orphanage, she went into a Catholic convent, planning to become a nun herself. She had no skills as such and nowhere else to turn. But Anna was not cut out for the pastoral life. She soon met Stanley Kuklinski at a dance sponsored by the church, and her destiny was sealed.