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Charles Barkley is one of the most controversial professional athletes in any sport. Interestingly, the book doesn’t deal so much with basketball, but it explores a wide range of interests. Every chapter presents a different theme and is organized as if you are reading twenty-five separate essays. Barkley speaks his mind on each topic such as politics, the economics of the world, controversy, life can’t be serious all of the time and even more serious topics such as September 11. One of the most intriguing issues he discusses is race and he explains that, “poor white people and poor black people just don’t know how much they have in common.” With that he describes how his own race doesn’t want to see other black people become successful in their realm and to create a new life. He also discusses how graduation rates have been declining greatly over the past decade due to the fact that America’s colleges tend to fail in preparing student athletes for the working world.
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