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  • My Bloody Life

  • The Making of a Latin King
  • By: Reymundo Sanchez
  • Narrated by: Rudy Sanda
  • Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (873 ratings)

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My Bloody Life

By: Reymundo Sanchez
Narrated by: Rudy Sanda
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Publisher's summary

Looking for an escape from childhood abuse, Reymundo Sanchez turned away from school and baseball to drugs, alcohol, and then sex and was left to fend for himself before age 14. The Latin Kings, one of the largest and most notorious street gangs in America, became his refuge and his world, but its violence cost him friends, freedom, self-respect, and nearly his life. This is a raw and powerful odyssey through the ranks of the new Mafia, where the only people more dangerous than rival gangs are members of your own gang, who in one breath will say they'll die for you and in the next will order your assassination.

Contains mature themes.

©2000 Reymundo Sanchez (P)2017 Tantor
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“A slow-motion riot of drugs, sex, and gunplay." ( Publishers Weekly)

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amazing

I binged the entire 12 hour book that's how good it was I had a visual of what was being read and even found myself with chills every now and again amazing book and narrator

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Good content, cringy narration

As already stated in other reviews the content is interesting but the narration is subpar. Why not get a fluent, native Spanish bilingual to read this? I didn't think it would distract or bother me as much but honestly, it would have. ade listening to this better.

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Amazing tale

As a Chicago resident who grew up in the hood it’s a very elaborate tale of what gang life is truly like.

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Great story but….

You can’t fake language. Poor decision in choosing this narrator. Not his fault but a native Spanish speaker should have been asked to narrate.

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Amazing Story!!!

Loved this book so much!
The story is insane from begining to end you won't want to put it down

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great book

this book seemed very authentic.a very close look in a gang members life and bad child hood.a roller coaster of emotions. I highly recommend this book.

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Lame

The story was good but this guy was a lame ass that would do anything for pussy or drugs

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great story the narrator was terrible IMO

it was a great story, but the narrator was terrible. mispronounced and misread a lot of the Spanish words. but the story was great.

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Good book so so narration

The book itself was good but as a Spanish speaker having heard other audiobooks read by Spanish speakers I wonder why that didn’t have a more fluent Spanish speaker narrate this book even if it’s in English the portions in Spanish should be read correctly

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The narrator is awful.

Great story telling by the author although the narrator does him no justice. The book is read by Rudy Sanda and his attempts to speak Spanish are as bad as his cringe-worthy Latino gangster accents he reads throughout the book. Every time he did an accent or says “Amor de Rey” would literally annoy me. He even gave an ER Doctor a cholo accent. Narrator reads gang shootouts and killings like he’s reading some kid a bedtime story. Other than the narrator, it’s a good read. Hopefully the next book has a better narrator.

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