Against All Odds
A Life of Beating the Odds

I will now summarize Scott Brown's autobiography for you. Ahem... Hello, I'm Scott Brown. You may remember me from such films as "My Stepdaddies All Beat Me" and "My Camp Counselor Tried To Make The Gay Sex At Me." But I will not be beaten and I do not engage in the gay sex. [insert bad prose here] In......more

I live in Massachusetts and Scott Brown is the Senator that won the seat that a Kennedy had held for 55 out of the last 57 years. I decided to read Against All Odds because I wanted to find out what allowed a little known state senator from Wrentham to become one the most powerful voices for the Rep......more

On the whole I enjoyed the book and the narration. I was waiting to find out why he ended up as a Republican, since his life story makes him more likely a Democrat. So his reasons - his family were all Republicans, he's pro military, he's against big government, anti-tax were a bit disappointing. He......more

If you can make it through the straight-shooting, laundry-list-like prose, he (and his ghostwriter) surely convince me he's one kick-ass dude. There's something to be said for staying focused on your values and goals (but did he really avoid drugs while in the midst of the Studio 54 NYC modeling sce......more

What a survivor and thriver Scott Brown is! Excellent book by the new Senator. He comes from a very hard background of parents who divorced when he was young and each remarried at least three times. There were abusive stepfathers and an absent father in his life. Scott loved basketball and knew that......more