Bullies
A Friendship

Part memoir, part social-political treatise, there's enough in BULLIES to recommend it, but it never really becomes more than the sum of its parts. There's lots of fascinating details about life in a motorcycle club, and the history of Oakland, and life on an independent wrestling circuit, but the l......more

A somewhat unusual, yet interesting read about 2 guys who were bully and victim back in their school days, then forget about each other. Alex Abramovich and Trevor Latham were both in similar situations when they were kids, each being raised by their single parent fathers in Long Island. Years later......more

I grew up in Oakland, and started hearing whispers of a motorcycle gang called the Rats when I was 6 years old. As an adult, I have found myself deeply entrenched within my local motorcycle community. It comes as no surprise that I was drawn to this book. I sat down with it, intending to skim throug......more

Bullies represents itself to potential readers as an "account of one writer's unlikely friendship with his childhood bully," a premise likely to appeal to readers who as children experienced either side of the bullying equation. And for a rather brief few pages that is what it is - but all too quick......more

Hm. I can't see this book being of any interest to anyone who has never heard of the East Bay Rats. And even then, I learned all I needed to know in the first few chapters. I suppose it was a good enough history of Oakland, but parts bored me profoundly. There also wasn't much nuance about their "fr......more