Showing a humility that suggests his sobriety is the real thing, he includes the damning recollections of his old drug buddies. Hosoi talks candidly about his drug use and the disastrous effects it had on his family and career, and unlike most celebrity memoirists, he gives plenty of hideous details. Readers interested in Hosoi's addiction, his related criminal behaviors and his eventual 5-year prison term will also appreciate this book. If you toyed around on a skateboard in the Reagan era and enjoy 1980s nostalgia to a healthy, non-obsessive degree, Christian's anecdotes about skate tournaments, Tony Hawk and the "Two Coreys" era of Hollywood will be an amusing guilty pleasure. Hosoi nobly attempts to satisfy them all but the limitations of the first-person genre, namely, the sporadic input of others and the subject's selection of events to prioritize, results in a book that is wide in scope but slim in substance. As far as memoirs go, "Hosoi" has perhaps the most divergent mix of target readers out there: skaters, 1980s enthusiasts, recovering drug addicts, and new school Christians.
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