Peruse By Some Miracle I Made It Out Of There: A Memoir Authored By Tom Sizemore Released As Ebook

truly enjoyed reading this book, I am a huge fan of Anna David and she helped Tom Sizemore tell his story, It was well written, brilliant, and I could not put this book down,

I know that there was an extremely serious nature to the book, but in addition to that I truly enjoyed how we were introduced to young actors before they became famous.


Anna David's writing made me imagine that I was hanging out with Tom while he was on the set, meeting all these famous people and experiencing his younger days.


It was well worth the two days that it took me to read, Time well spent! While it's a memoir of Tom Sizemore's career as an actor in such films as Born On The Fourth Of July, Heat, Natural Born Killers, True Romance, and Saving Private Ryan, it's also one of the most harrowing stories of drug addiction this reader has ever read.
Sizemore gives a brutally honest account of the daytoday realities of being an addict, first with heroin and cocaine, then after cleaning up from the those the even worse addiction of methamphetamine.
It's not a pretty story but it does give the reader a picture of a specific time in Hollywood and insight into what can happen to derail the career of a talented but troubled artist in the mold of a Robert Downey Jr.
, River Phoenix, Chris Farley or Heath Ledger, It's also an inspiring story in that someone who was down about as far as it's possible to go having gone to prison, lost everything he owned, dragged through media scandal after scandal, and become homeless and alone could get sober and start rebuilding their life.
A truly humbling tale. BH. Narcissistic portrayal of his acting career intermittent with a semiserious realization of his drug abuse, I really like this cat as an actor, so I was totally interested to find out what's been going on with him lately and about him going so downhill when he made it in the big time.
All I can say is dang, he did a lot of drugs and was givenchances to finally get it together.
I don't think a nonactor would have been extended the same privileges as they gave to him, Anyway, I always love a happy ending, It must be extremely hard to be a slave to an addiction, but I hope he keeps

up the good work because I really do like his acting! An absolutely amazing and heartfelt story.
I am grateful that he shared his story,
He bared his soul and came out stronger and anyone who is struggling with addiction can learn a lot about second chances.
Maybe not the most sophisticated book on the market, much of the story involves addiction, sex, some name dropping and Hollywood style parties.
I was interested to see a complex thread of poverty circle through the story, Sizemore grew up in a tough Detroit neighborhood and by all rights never would have expected the life he achieved.
It was pretty amazing to read about the drive that got him there, and eventually through a gazillion treatment programs.
He wrote that when he was growing up they only had a bathtub, and now in his sobriety, he likes the bath vs the shower because it reconnects him to those roots.
Interesting twist for someone who lived so long being a bottomless pit of addictions, charming story in his own way.
Interesting for anyone interested in acting or film, It was okay. Crazy addict talk definitely not aware of his effect on others and didn't seem to be in too much of a hurry to take responsibility for his actions.
Sad! Tom Sizemore has been called many things, Brilliant. Brutal. Fiercely talented. Angry. Drug addicted. In reality, hes all of them, Hes a survivor of the Detroit ghetto, the fiftyyearold father of twin boys, and a veteran of dozens of movies.
Hes also now sober, after his addiction took his life just about as far down as any human being could go.


Through screenstealing performances in thes movies True Romance, Heat, and Natural Born Killers, Sizemore was so in demand that even when it was widely known that he had a drug problem, directors like Steven Spielberg were offering him roles and begging him to stay sober for them.
Robert De Niro personally recruited him for the role of Michael

Cheritto in Heat after asking him to dinner and expressing his admiration.
Jack Nicholson, Robert Downey, Jr, and Johnny Depp each went out of their way to befriend him, But this same man went from romancing Elizabeth Hurley and Juliette Lewis to being accused of domestic violence by the worlds most famous madam, and moved from a Beverly Hills mansion to a solitaryconfinement cell at Chino State Prison and later a desolate, abandoned cabin in a town best known for being where Charles Manson hid Rosemary LaBiancas wallet.


For years, Sizemores days were filled with overdoses, suicide attempts, and homelessness, The simple fact is that people dont come back from where Tom Sizemore landedyet miraculously, he did, By Some Miracle I Made It Out of There is a harrowing journey into the heart of addiction, told in riveting and often shocking detaila terrifying cautionary tale for anyone whos peered over the abyss of drug abuse.
By turns gritty and heartbreaking, it is also one mans look at a particular moment in entertainment historya window into the drugfueled spotlight that sent Robert Downey, Jr.
, to jail and killed River Phoenix, Heath Ledger, and Chris Farley and many others far before their time.
Actually better than I expected, I have a bit of a prurient streak in my reading habitsI read this to satisfy that urge.
One thing I hate to see in addiction memoirs is a person who writes as if they have had the consummate addiction experience and that things are the same for everybody.
I also get riled up when people discourage or recommend against other forms of treatment/recovery, Everyone is different. No author should assume that every reader will experience things the same way he does, Sizemore makes a lot of statements saying YOU instead of I or one, I found it irritating. I don't think he and I are much alike, There were some stories that were mildly interesting though, Lots of namedropping and talking about all the women he's screwed, It sounds like he cries a lot and thinks himself extraordinarily talented and intelligent, I'm not convinced. Interesting although movie need to drop names, Sizemore has come a long way from where he was, it is a bit of a messy read, about a somewhat messy life, addiction to no matter what is a heavy burden to carry around.
Good story! Rough at times what addiction did to him, He's a total womanizer as he never once compliments a female actress, but always gives some shout out to the men working on a film.
I read this in a few days as he keeps you wanting to see what happens next, So, I read alot of these type of memoirs and this one, . . really bugged me!! Okay, Tom Sizemore bugged me, Talk about ego! I still kept reading it though and I decided that by the end he was actually starting to change somewhat and I guess that makes it a pretty realistic story.
Change takes time. This is an honest, albeit rough, account of a struggle to survive in an insane world, I am cheering for Tom to make this a permanent change in his life, He is very talented and I would like to see him on the screen again, Very honest bio. Tom is a very bright man and it shows that how smart you are you can still become an addict.
He is a very sensitive human being and I love that in a man, A dark, disturbing read about a man who destroyed his friendships, relationships and career because he got addicted to heroin and meth.
Not so much a book about movies those are mentioned very briefly, with a few anecdotes from the sets here and there as it is about a wasted opportunity.
Sizemore is candid and direct in his prose, and many of the stories he tells, dark though they are, make for an entertaining read.
Not a masterpiece, but worth a read for fans of films like Saving Private Ryanand Heat, Read like a moody, strungout teenager's diary, but I still couldn't seem to put it down, While it rambles in places and is repetitive after a pointthe addict's life is pretty much "lather/rinse/repeat" until it isn'tit's a solid, fullytold cautionary tale, especially for those susceptible to the fanciful notion that enough of the right kind of love will fill them.
Threaded throughout are great lessons for actors and other creatives interested in pursuing the truth through their narrow and challenging path of choice: when he worked, he worked with incredible discipline and thoroughness.
Coauthor Anna David does an excellent job of wrangling a sprawling tale and, probably, an equally sprawling mind, but because it's an "as told to", it lacks the revelatory insight of a writer's memoir e.
g. Mary Karr's Lit, Caroline Knapp's Drinking: A Love Story, Stephen King's On Writing, etc, . Still, a quick enough read to make it worth your afternoon, The entire book is just a resume of his work and women, I felt it was too surface, Phenomenal book that exposes Hollywood for what it is, Lots of sex and drugs, I was extremely entertained all the way through, Wasn't as in depth as I'd hoped it would be but an intense story all the same, Very good. Tom Sizemore's memior. Pretty good. Starts out with some fun celebrity stuff "Jack Nicholson brought me over to Marlon Brando's house, . . " but mostly a frank personal account of addiction, Engaging, oftentimes arrogant autobiography has plenty to offer in Sizemore's anecdotes about his early acting career, Once the drugs and sex take over, naturally, the vision becomes cloudy and the book seems to jump around with less insight.
Plus, a spotty sense of time regarding his numerous rises, rehabs and falls creates confusion, All too often Sizemore appears homeless but then he's in a AList movie, Still, a seedy, colorful portrayal of young Hollywood in thes ands, Thomas Edward Size Jr. November,March,was an American actor, He is known for his supporting roles in Born on the Fourth of July, Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man, Passenger, True Romance, Natural Born Killers, Strange Days, Heat, Saving Private Ryan, Red Planet, Black Hawk Down, Pearl Harbor, and the revival television series Twin Peaks, and for voicing Sonny Forelli in the video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.
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