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Untamed: The Autobiography of the Circus's Greatest Animal Trainer
Ringling Brothers' biggest crowd please tells his story. When Ringling Brothers brought Gunther Gebel-Williams to the U.S. in 1977, Gebel-Williams helped transform their trained animal act into a super spectacular. Untamed celebrated a life of death-defying courage--in the ring as well as out. It revelas the truth about the circus' work methods, the exhausting work schedul
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Hardcover
Published
March 1st 1991
by William Morrow & Company
(first published February 1st 1991)
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I picked this up in a resale shop during a business trip back in 2010. I perused through it twice but did not start reading it until my Christmas vacation. The rather stiff writing and lack of creativity in the narrative style did dampen my enthusiasm. In truth, I put the book down thrice during 2011 before I picked it up again in late-2012. Mr. Williams was a brave and undaunted man who pursued his passion - to be a great circus performer. He overcame many obstacles including oppressive governm
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I didn't love this book - to be clear, Gunther came across as a pompous ass. That is not to say the he was one, just a comment on the book. There are a lot of interesting stories about growing up in postwar Germany, about growing up a circus orphan, about moving to Ringling. But the writing is not so good; it is boring. Gunther is excused from that because of his poor English, but his co-author should have taken care of both problems, making the writing more interesting and making Gunther less o
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Disappointing. The writing is so flat, even with such an interesting subject, it becomes tiresome to plod through. While I like to get Gunther's own words on his work, the ratio of actual information to ego-oozing self-back-patting is greatly skewed. Incidents and acts are mentioned vaguely, but nothing is ever described in detail; I feel like I could get just as much by flipping through a few Ringling programs from back in the day.
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