"Throughout my lifetime, I've never given a thought to having piles of money or being rich or doing anything like that. Here's a quote from the book "We Who Are Alive and Remain:" I want to achieve that kind of mindset about life. What mattered was the simple things the most important things. Shifty had such a simple way of living life. The author took extreme pains to write this book, reading many books by others to find out more about Shifty, listening to interviews of Shifty, talking to Peter Youngblood Hills (who played Shifty in the miniseries), taking things Shifty told him during the writing of the book "We Who Are Alive and Remain" (an excellent read, and one of my favorites on Easy Company). Shifty didn't actually write it, and I think that's okay. I mean, Shifty's son came to Marcus Brotherton and asked him to write a book about his beloved dad, so if he can trust him, I think we can.Īnd because of the superb job the author did, I had to remind myself that this is an authorized biography. He would never have put words into Shifty's mouth that he didn't feel would come from Shifty's heart. The author wrote this with the utmost respect, I know. It was written near perfectly to sound just like Shifty. I'm always cautious about books like this, and can you blame me?Īfter the first few chapters though, I began to relax and realize that this is probably what Shifty would have written. I was a little wary, because after I got this book I found out it wasn't actually written by Shifty, but by Marcus Brotherton, in Shifty's voice. Boy, was I ready to bawl when I finished this book! I do not know what it is about Easy Company that I love so much, but I cry just about every time I finish a book about one of the members or the whole company.
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