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From the Inside

By: Mark "Chopper" Read
Narrated by: Dave Ferguson
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 'Apart from Irish whiskey, good cigars, Pontiac motor cars, and a pistol grip baby .410 shotgun with solid load shells, what I love the most is kidnapping smartarse gangsters and taking their money.' Mark Brandon 'Chopper' Read is the son of a strict Seventh Day Adventist mother and a shell-shocked former soldier who slept with a loaded gun at his side. Bullied at school, he grew up dreaming of revenge. He became a criminal legend who terrorised drug dealers, pimps, thieves and armed robbers on the streets and in jail ‒ but boasts he never hurt an innocent member of the public. This first volume of Chopper's memoirs, written from inside jail and laced with his trademark brutal humour, tells the story of his early life of crime ‒ from streetfighter to standover man, gunman to long-term prisoner ‒ and launched his career as a bestselling author.©1991 Mark Brandon Read (P)2014 Bolinda Publishing True Crime
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from the early 90s. I wish he didn't end so many paragraphs with haha! good yarn though.

Narration was a bit like a health and safety video

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didn't take it too seriously had a laugh at his dry humour. the performance was fantastic. worth a listen if you like a bit of comedy in your true crime

dry humour

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Dave Ferguson did an excellent audio depiction of Chopper. Pity he did narrate the other Chopper books. Most entertaining!

Narration

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Chopper, Australia's favourite convict. The guy has a way with words and I found it not only hilarious at times, but also insightful, interesting and alarming. I personally enjoy gangster related movies or books, and this is One of the most entertaining of that category I've ever read/heard.

Brilliant, brutal, entertaining as hell

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I was disappointed I thought it was one of his other best seller didn't like this one as much

chopper a disappointment

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I found it interesting, but the only bearable passages of narration were the authors' notes where the narrator used his normal voice. His attempt at recreating Chopper's tone and inflection was nauseating, and detracted from an otherwise intriguing recount of a life of blood and guts violence and crime.

Narrator, what about my free set of steak knives?

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An excellent listen to a modern day Ned Kelly. A first hand insight into what it’s like to be a “marked man” on the streets of Melbourne.

A great insight from the inside

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To me, this book seemed like one big im a tuff guy/ ego stroke.

I couldn't get past the first few chapters.

unbearable

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This book should be titled, The Memoirs of a Delusional Sociopath. Some of it is true but for the most part, it’s BS. I’ve heard the real jail stories.

Full of it.

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did not like his writing style if there was any,the book was like him ,total garbage

Grub

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