I Can’t Make This Up By Kevin Hart Book Review — Bagi Ali
The book is an autobiography of Kevin Hart, co-written by Neil Strauss.
The book reveals the life and struggle of popular Comedian and Actor Kevin Hart. It talks about his growing up struggles, his right and wrong choices, his love life, his family, friends, and in totality, the story behind his success.
The book comes with a lot of life lessons that makes one think that it’s more about the lessons intended to be passed than about the character the book is about.
A major theme of the book is persistency. Kevin’s success story can be attributed to his doggedness in achieving his dreams even though I would say I didn’t like the kind of life he lived. One doesn’t have the chance to make expectations of him because the story is non fiction. However, one would have expected that he furthered his education, even though he partly expressed his regret on the matter, I expected that he could have taken steps and still can to see that this is done.
On his relationship and social life, I would say that he lived a very reckless life. His alcoholism, promiscuity, and addictive gambling were habits that could have hindered his success. I wouldn’t agree that his doggedness covered up for his shortcomings in these areas, I would only believe that he got lucky.
His attitude to challenges is highly commendable and one would wonder if that part of the story is true as he shrugged off even the most difficult disappointments.
The book chapter titling is indescribable, it is in a class of its own and makes one wonder if it was done just to fill the space or bring out the comic character of Kevin Hart. I appreciate the writer’s style of trying to bring us into the character of Hart and the reasoning behind his actions even though I do not agree with most of it. It is however not impressive that he talked so much about his ex wife, yet chose to say very little about Eniko, his subsequent partner.
Torrei and Hart had a lot in common and I expected that they would settle their differences and end up together. The writer emphasizes on Torrei’s shortcomings and Enikos good part, I know this seems like bringing morality into the writer’s approach but it is expected that since so much had been revealed, the writer should have taken us all the way.
Torrei, although imperfect, was very instrumental to Hart’s success and it is sad that even though she was highly compensated, didn’t end up with him.
The writer talked about everything there was to know about Torrei, their sex life, violence, good times, hard times and all but chose to only discuss the good for Eniko which makes me conclude that it was probably because he decided to settle with her, is still with her and wouldn’t want the world to think negatively about her.
Considering the character of Kevin Hart, the book is highly commendable and one would have expected less from him, surprisingly it is an amazing book and I enjoyed the fact that the he was able to reflect his character and personality in the book.
The inclusion of humor in a book that could be categorized as inspirational is highly commendable and the lesson that comes with it is that a book should not be judged by the personality of the writer.
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