GIMP: When Life Deals You a Crappy Hand, You Can Fold -or You Can Play

As someone the same age as Mr. Zupan with a daughter in a wheelchair I was able to get motivation about her life, as well as my own from this book. This book will help anyone whose life took an unexpected turn. I recommend it or reference a story from it almost daily and I finished it a month ago.

This is one of the best biographies I've ever read!Nobody could have told Mark's story as well as he does.Yes,he's often raunchy and rude throughout the book.But he's also brutally frank and honest.He doesn't hide or sugarcoat anything.He freely admits that he's been a major jerk at times.You will feel a lot of things for Mark while reading this,but one thing you won't feel is sympathy-and that's how he wants it.He wants... Read Full Review

I don't read many autobiographies of famous people because in my opinion, they too often seem self-censored, either because the person writing it wants to preserve a certain image of themselves or because they can't trust the reader enough to make the "right" interpretation about their life. Speaking as a person who worked for the authors of "Gimp" to transcribe hours of interviews with family and friends of Mark Zupan, in... Read Full Review

Most biographies try to be inspirational on some level - but this book goes way beyond that. It peels back the layers on what it really means to be in a wheelchair, but without getting sentimental or mawkish. It's also a great story of friendship between Mark and his best friend--who was driving during the accident that put Mark in a wheelchair. The story of how the two of them have coped over the years, from overcoming the... Read Full Review