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The untold true story burke was talking about doorbal, but she could have said this for everyone. Now, schiller shares how he survived the ordeal, exploring the life lessons he learned. Pain and gain is the true story of marc schiller, a successful florida business man who, one day in 1994, found his life spiraling out of control and hanging by a thread. This compelling book proves the rule tha t truth is stranger than fiction. As far as that story, pain and gain is a book from which you can take numerous messages or that you can read from many different angles.
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Marc schiller this is the untold true story of one citizens pointless torture and monthlong captivity. The principle roles were given to hollywood heavyweights mark wahlberg and dwayne the rock johnson and the tag line was their american dream is bigger than yours. The story starts out with a brief outline of schillers life prior to coming to america and you see that for the most part, he had lived the socalled american dream. Even as a dark comedy, there is little amusement to be found in human suffering.
You can read it as the story of one mans successes in overcoming many adversities. Now his story has been made into a comedy starring mark wahlberg. Pain and gain download ebook pdf, epub, tuebl, mobi. Though one reason behind his selfdoubt is his constant back pain, from which the reallife director also suffers.
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