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Total Recall
- My Unbelievably True Life Story
- Narrated by: Stephen Lang, Arnold Schwarzenegger
- Length: 23 hrs and 21 mins
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Publisher's Summary
One of the most anticipated autobiographies of this generation, Arnold Schwarzenegger's Total Recall is the candid story of one of the world's most remarkable actors, businessmen, and world leaders.
Born in the small city of Thal, Austria, in 1947, Arnold Schwarzenegger moved to Los Angeles at the age of 21. Within 10 years, he was a millionaire businessman. After 20 years, he was the world's biggest movie star. In 2003, he was elected governor of California and became a household name around the world.
Chronicling his embodiment of the American Dream, Total Recall covers Schwarzenegger's high-stakes journey to the United States, from creating the international bodybuilding industry out of the sands of Venice Beach, to breathing life into cinema's most iconic characters, and becoming one of the leading political figures of our time. Proud of his accomplishments and honest about his regrets, Schwarzenegger spares nothing in sharing his amazing story.
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- Russell
- 01-23-13
Totally Worth It
I must have picked this audible book up on sale. The life of Arnold never was an inspiration to me. When I started listening my plan was to skip over the bodybuilding part. Who knew that this would be fascinating and the entire autobiography would be such a pleasant inspiring read.
Schwarzenegger has accomplished a lot in life and his formula for success in the three diverse fields of bodybuilding, acting and politics is worth hearing about. Although there are probably some distortions in his account, enough of the measure of the man comes through that demands your respect.
I am not a Republican by nature but would be happy with Arnold as a leader because he knows the value of compromise and he thinks independently and does not blindly follow an entire ideology.
Whatever your political inclination is - you have to admire this man who always got results.
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- johan
- 06-26-13
Oustanding. Inspiring.
What did you love best about Total Recall?
It was impossible to stop listening. His story is simply awesome.
What was one of the most memorable moments of Total Recall?
His bodybuilding years were great.
What about Stephen Lang and Arnold Schwarzenegger ’s performance did you like?
It really did not feel like i was listening to someone else than Arnold. His tone was great.
Any additional comments?
Best bio sofar.
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- Sarah
- 02-19-14
Very much enjoyed
Would you consider the audio edition of Total Recall to be better than the print version?
Yup, but only since I don't like reading
What was one of the most memorable moments of Total Recall?
There were quite a few throughout the book. I don't know much about american politics but quite enjoyed his account of his years spent as governor. Also enjoyed how he talked about body building and the physical requirements. There are a few funny stories too!
Which character – as performed by Stephen Lang and Arnold Schwarzenegger – was your favorite?
Arnold of course.
If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?
Same as the title.
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- Molly
- 10-02-12
True LIES and Alibis~ Brilliant ~ 5 STARS
Arnold's Bio~ This starts with his life as a boy in Austria with a less than close relationship with his father. His drive to get ahead by body building which takes him by storm as a teenager. While other boys had girl pin ups Arnold has american body builds in his room leading his mother to worry about his sexuality. His "goal" was to become a body builder and win the biggest titles using this to gain wealth and move to the USA and become a movie star. His very intelligent approach to business and his amazing ability to FOCUS. As his body becomes huge he wins several World Titles and he ends up in LA at the Gold Gym he read about in his teens. He sets up a mail order business selling body building phamplets His first efforts in the movies was PUMPING IRON which caught the attention of the Hollywood crowd. He becomes a millionaire and invested in buildings and land. He gets an education taking business courses. He became an American Citizen. At a fund raiser he comes in contact with the lovely Maria Shriver. He evenutally marries. His movie career takes off to make him the highest paid and biggest box office star. Arnold makes his own decisions even after he is married. He decided not to tell Maria he needed open heart surgery. He was planning on running on the republican ticket for Governor of California and told Maria only *days* before his David Letterman annoucement. Arnold is at best brilliant but perhaps is the worlds great salesman. He can sell himself in bodybuilding, acting, and republican governor in a very democratic state. He finally confessed a life changing "secret" the day after was no longer governor. He has a 14 year old son with his housekeeper. He stated he only suspected the boy was his after the boy was 7. Arnold has a trick he uses throughout his book. His ablity to ignore anything that would cause him trouble. He puts in a "compartment" in his mind and trys his best to keep it "under raps". Arnold comes across as a very intelligent and interesting man. His EGO is as big as he is. We see the flaws in this bigger than life man and his secrets that help destroy his marriage. Arnold at best is a survivor. This is an excellent audiobook. It is very well written and the story flows along. The Reader Stephen Lang is very good and Arnold reads parts himself. I give this 5 STARS over all for a better than I ever expected Bio.
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- smartchickdina
- 12-30-12
Read by the author, my eye!
What made the experience of listening to Total Recall the most enjoyable?
This is a wonderful telling of Arnold Schwarzenegger's life. I say telling because while the audio book is advertised as 'read by the author', in fact, Stephen Lang reads all but two chapters. I would have preferred to hear the story in the author's words. The details are very well presented and the listener gets a real insight into the life of Mr Schwarzenegger.
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- Andrew
- 04-24-13
Surprisingly A Great and Informative Story
What did you love best about Total Recall?
The title "My Unbelievably True Life Story" needs to accent the 'unbelievably" part more - his story, success and adventures were an amazing listen. Yes we knew the end result of his recent marital issues, but little did i know about his path and efforts to success. I have told so many people about this book as i progressed and encouraged many to listen as well. His centrist political views are, in my opinion, a majority of the nation and he would be successful again in politics if he tried. Grew to respect the Governator more.
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- justin hastings
- 10-21-12
Very interesting
What made the experience of listening to Total Recall the most enjoyable?
Agree with him or not, it is a very interesting story about a very eventful life. I enjoyed the story greatly.
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- Jack Merritt
- 10-18-12
The Authornator hits a home run!
What did you like best about this story?
Although this book follows the life of this amazing person, it's much more, it explains why Arnold made all of the major decisions in his life. He is extremely fair pointing out all of the both his bad points as well as the good. Here is a man who came to the United States with next to nothing and became a successful business person, the world's best bodybuilder, one of the world's top grossing actor, led the nation in a push for physical fitness and became the governor of California. He has mingled with Presidents, business giants and celebrities and yet in his mind he is still a regular guy who just worked extremely hard and did well. It's truely the best example of the American dream. You can't listen to this book and not be motivated. Arnold did more than say that the United States of America was the greatest country in the world he proved it.
What does Stephen Lang and Arnold Schwarzenegger bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
The book is read by both Arnold and Steven Lang. It's a great mixture. It's great to hear Arnold tell his story and Lang jumps in for the bulk of the book.
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
I was so impressed with a young Arnold buying an apartment building when most everyone else would have waited until they were better suited. He did plenty of research and began his empire when the rest of us would have still been dreaming. He is a man of action and this more than all of his other accomplishments demonstates this fact.
Any additional comments?
As Arnold indicates, don't copy all of his actions, learn from his example and improve your life and the lives of those around you. He gave up countless millions to be governor of California so he can give back to the country that allowed him to be such a success, we can all learn from his example.
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- Simone
- 08-04-19
Fascinating!
It’s long book, but I was impressed by how much ground it covered!
Although, there are some obvious omissions like his affair with the housekeeper (he does talk a little about the love-child), I think those events are simply a case of not enough water under the bridge yet. It is after all the impetuous for his divorce so the wound may still be too raw. Had this book been written 10 years later, I think he would have opened up about it more. Actually, I wish this book had been written later in time because I would just love to hear his opinions on the current travesty that is the Trump Administration.
What I came away with, what marked me the most about his story, is how unbelievably driven and ambitious he is! WOW, I had no idea just how focused an individual he is.
One cannot help but notice the sizable ego he posses to match his bulky frame, but his amazing accomplishments in life demonstrate that he had the right stuff to succeed.
Schwarzenegger is candid, honest and doesn’t pull any punches… just what you want from a celebrity bio.
Regarding the audio narration, Schwarzenegger does chapter 1 but then it switches to the other guy. I found the change abrupt and it took me a while to get comfortable with someone else reading Schwarzenegger’s story in the first person.
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- Gustavo Ortiz
- 10-27-18
A life changer
I don’t know why I bought this book, curiosity maybe but I definitely did not expect much from it. This book is now in my top 5 books that changed my life and mindset for better, amazing book. Thanks for sharing Arnold.
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- alexander
- 02-11-14
Salesmans "true" story
What made the experience of listening to Total Recall the most enjoyable?
I enjoyed the early days and opinions of LA. His burgeoning businesses were very interestingBest part were the detailed explanations of each film. ( dissapointed commando was hardly mentioned)
What was one of the most memorable moments of Total Recall?
Lots of moments (24 hour book). Military stories were fun.
What does Arnold Schwarzenegger and Stephen Lang bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you had only read the book?
I was disapointed when Arnie only done the first chapter but once the other voice took over he was very good too.
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
I wasnt moved to tears but i was amazed at the honesty regarding his "affair" with the housekeeper. i didnt excpect this to be in the book but it was handled in a very up front manner.
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I remember reading arnies first biog as a child and being very motivated, now it transpires he did take steroids. This part is handled very tentatively and whilst i loved the story and its telling i think the steroid element should have had much greater importance given in this story. He mentions drug testing happens in bodybuilding now but we know bodybuilders continue to openly abuse steroids.For all his faults which he admits to, Arnie continues to have the ability to inspire. Any young person with a goal or lack of could do worse than listening to this book.Straight into my do not delete library.
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- levw49
- 04-29-13
Inspirational!
This is such a well told story of a remarkable mans life, so much so that I have thoroughly annoyed my friends and family going on about it. I bought it for fun really thinking that Arnold hasn't released anything before really so it would be interesting, but it's so much more. From the start you know this is going to be a tale of rags to riches but throughout all of it you cant help but admire everything about him, from his determination to succeed in life and break the mould, to his gentle nature and just the way he speaks about everything as 'matter of fact' and at no point does he get bitter about events in his life or adopt the 'Woe is me' view which so many of our modern day celebrities do. This was a real eye opener to me and an inspiration, and I believe that no matter who you and what you think of him, everyone should listen to the last chapter titled 'Arnold's Rules' (narrated by arnold himself). It puts a lot of so called motivational speakers and life coaches to shame and is something I have listened to on it's own several times. I thoroughly enjoyed this and would recommend it to anyone, safe in the knowledge that they will take away something positive with them.
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- Mrs
- 01-18-13
Good listen
Fear not, Arnie does not read all of it.
I was worried that he would read the whole book. Thankfully Stephen Lang was hired to finish the job. Arnie’s style of narrating just didn’t sound right to me and made for difficult listening.
Over all it was a good insight to the man. I do think it is maybe part of a PR campaign to recover his image. The other thing which stuck out was the references to his 'amazing wife'. Just seemed like this book was a way of sucking up to her to get her back.
Over all a great read.
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- aydin
- 02-23-15
Best audiobook I've ever listened to
Honestly is the best biography / memoir of any celebrity I have listened to. Whilst most characters (who admittedly also have interesting stories) simply have only one profession and thus can get fairly dull or tedious, Arnold's unlikely transition from bodybuilder to actor to Govenor combined with his incredible drive and work ethic makes the story fresh and intensely gripping. His ideology and backstory is one of the most inspiring to date and his name will surely go down in the record books for all he has, and surely will still to come, accomplish. 5/5 I highly recommend this to all members of the public, regardless of sporting interest or political inclination.
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- David
- 12-20-12
Without Fear
If you are interesting as to what makes someone successful then here is one of the greatest examples. When you consider he knew no one when he got to America with limited English and a basic education Arnie became one of the greatest, certainly the most famous bodybuilders of all time. He then went on to be one of the highest paid actors of all time and then governor of California not once but twice. The remarkable thing is that he doesn’t think of himself as remarkable he just wanted it and did what was needed to get it, without fear.
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- tpseesall
- 09-30-20
Hard one to rate.
This is a hard audiobook to review. First off I have always been a big fan of Schwarzenegger, I grew up on his movies and one (Terminator2) even inspired me into the career I now have.
I loved the first half of this book. I was super into it, I was telling everyone around me how good and inspiring it was, I loved hearing about his upbringing in Austria, loved learning about his body building career and into his movie career. He really goes into a lot of interesting detail. I thought listening to hours of talk about body building would be dull but it was actually very interesting and inspiring. Hearing all the behind the scenes stuff in his movie career was what I was really interested in, even leading me to go back and watch some of his early movies again to pick out things he had mentioned. I was looking at old photos of him and his body building career to put some faces to names.
Then the audio-book starts to take a serious dive, about the time he starts on his political journey.
He hints all the way through his life about his interest in politics and obviously I knew he became a Governor, I was interested in this part of his life also. But something else had started to sink in at this point, I was starting to get seriously tired of hearing how great Arnold thought Arnold was. I noticed that all the way through the book thus far this was a story of the best human being that had ever lived, never was he mentioning mistakes he'd made along the way, never was he in the wrong, never did he lose or not get what he wanted in life through any fault of his own. How can this be a real account of someones life? I then started to think about the political side to him and suddenly the whole account I was listening to felt whitewashed. I still had a few hours left to go and I didn't want to leave it unfinished so I battled on, but it was a struggle.
The Audio-book is perhaps too long, or maybe it isn't, I was really enjoying it at first and was invested happy to keep learning about him. Until the point it just didn't feel like a genuine account of someones life. I felt like a politician was trying to convince me he was the perfect human being or had the perfect life and that's just not how people are. I trust people more when I can relate to them and you relate to the imperfections just as much as their similar hopes, dreams and achievement goals.
Speak to me halfway into this book and I would force you to buy it and listen right away, speak to me now and I'd tell you I have my doubts about Arnold as a person. This book only tells half his story and for me was a serious slog to get through to the end.
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- Maria
- 11-10-12
More human than Terminator.
Arnold talks a lot about his body building, his tournament wins and his drive to achieve this success. He speaks of his movie roles, his political career and the son he had with his house maid. Once I finished this listen I concluded that I sincerely hope he and Maria Shriver stay together. He clearly adores her and has suffered a great deal as a result of his selfish actions. You will hear Arnold himself speak at the start and again at the end. The speaker in the midst is good to listen to.
I enjoyed this autobiography very much indeed. He is a human being rather than the Terminator. This book gives him a humane quality easy to understand and empathise with.
If you like self help books this would be a good listen to see how those skills you read about are put into practice and he sums them up himself at the end.
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- Daniel cleasby
- 08-26-20
Well I'm glad that's over
Myyy God where do I start I really wanted to like this but it was sooooo freaking boring for gods sake man.. Her could have put the good points in a short story and left out every other conversation he has ever had in his life out of the book.. 23 hours and probably 3 hours of it I enjoyed. Sorry Arni but I won't be back!!!!
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- Michael
- 02-08-17
Engrossing and inspiring.
Engrossing and very inspiring acount of a truly amazing life. Better if read by author.
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- Jonathon
- 11-02-16
Almost brilliant
The first and last chapters are read by Arnold himself, however the rest is by another narrator. Although the story is brilliant, the bits Arnold reads himself seem to add so much more to the book and to the experience. It took my at least 2 chapters to get used to the new narrator and for this reason alone I can only give it 4 stars. Had either Arnold or the other narrator read the whole thing in its entirety then I imagine I'd have awarded 5 stars. The story and the stories are epicly good and all things considered I thoroughly enjoyed this book and will listen to it again one day.
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- Glenn price
- 11-22-18
Arnie doesnt narrate
Huge Arnold fan. A great in-depth story about his life. The only issue is he narrates about 2% of the book. It would've been so much better in his voice instead of someone else.
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- Tom Reilly
- 07-10-15
Motivation in a book!!
If this book doesn't motivate you in any way then there is something wrong with you! To think he came from such poverty to then become Governor of California is unbelievable! Well worth the read! Only criticism, as good as the other voice was, it would have been nice to have had more of Arnie speaking.
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- Thien Chau
- 12-10-19
Wish Arnold read more!
Stephen is a great narrator though I wish Arnold spoke more, I mean who wouldn’t want to hear Arnold speak with that accent?
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- John
- 03-16-17
Brilliant read
i thought this was an outstanding book that does tell an unbelievable story. Although heavily sanitized I definitely got something out of it. Stay hungry!
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- Marcus
- 12-14-16
Unbelievable
Arnold's life story is an inspiration and hugely motivating. Could not atop listening, well read and fascinating. I highly recommend anyone interested in self improvement or great stories to purchase this book.
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- Zippy
- 10-12-16
Thanks for sharing Arnie
Nicely written and inspiring. This book allows you to see the path to Arnold's success, not just the end result(the guy he is now). Life that clearly follows principles of other successful people. Always have the best mentors you can find, have a vision, written goals with measurable objectives, learn to sell, learn from your mistakes, reps/reps/reps(practice makes perfect).
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- Ben McMillan
- 09-21-16
Awesome story.
Arnold walks us through his whole life in a really simple way and tells us all about the incredible journey he takes. Personal drive is a massive understatement. Arnold's story, told warts and all would inspire anyone to set higher goals, work harder and enjoy life more.
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- Travis
- 09-14-16
Wow
Good book. Listening to this book I picked up a few themes
Have a vision,
Reps, reps, reps. Weights, study, rehearsing for speech. Hard repetitive work working towards your vision until you achieve it.
Aim for the top,
Stay hungry,
Take risks,
Be a great sales man,
Be unique,
Take action.
I'll be back (to listen again)
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- Anonymous User
- 06-25-22
Amazing 💪🏻💪🏻
Any big fan of Arnold or 80s and 90s action movies will love this. This man has easily lived the life of ten men with his accomplishments and he doesn’t hold back in this book. I’ve listened to it twice now and loved it both times.
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- Jakob
- 06-24-22
lots to learn from Arnie
Great book enjoyed the whole thing. It gives a behind the scenes look at this guy, being different and successful.