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The Time Of My Life By Patrick Swayze & Lisa Niemi Book Review

Actor Patrick Swayze (The Outsiders, Red Dawn, North & South, Dirty Dancing, Road House, Steel Dawn, Next Of Kin, Ghost, Point Break, To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything! Julie Newmar, The Beast TV series just to name a few) and his wife, Lisa Niemi, were working on Patrick’s autobiography near the end of his life.

It was released in September 29th of 2009, 15 days after he passed.  An abridged audio book of this was actually narrated by him.

The book covers Swayze’s life growing up, dancing, ultimately meeting his wife Lisa and their life together, getting into acting, stories about many of his projects over the years, and about his battle with pancreatic cancer.

The book is very well told and thoughtful, but sad, knowing what was coming.

He was positive throughout and I soooo wish he could have made it through.

But as the title of the book says, he and his wife, through good times and bad, had the time of their life together.

I always was a fan of his and always will be.

I remember even near the end of his life he went on a talk show and did one of the Dirty Dancing routines with a fan.  He looked great and I was hoping he would be OK.

What can I say? Cancer sucks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

He will be forever missed and if you are not as aware of his work or are and haven’t seen any of it in a while, go check some of it out.

And read this book.  It’s a good read.

The Ardent Fan

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