The Book of Sheen

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影視明星 Charlie Sheen（《現代啟示錄》、《華爾街》、《魔球隊大聯盟》、《好漢兩個半》）首次以毫無保留的方式，在這本回憶錄中親筆寫下他驚心動魄的一生。

「我們可以親身活出故事，或是只聽別人轉述。我選擇前者。」

Charlie Sheen 本不該還活著，更不該坐在這裡寫書。

但在《The Book of Sheen》中，這位屢屢逃過命運捉弄的影視明星，終於用自己的語氣，訴說屬於他的人生真相。

Charlie Sheen 是 Martin Sheen 與妻子 Janet 的四個孩子中的老三，自小便在片場長大——從父親的世界各地拍攝，到他自己在 Malibu 以 Super 8 拍攝野心勃勃的短片。他的兒時玩伴更是往後的好萊塢常見名字，包括哥哥 Emilio、Sean Penn、Chris Penn 以及 Lowe 兄弟。

Sheen 在 1980 年代闖入影壇，先後演出《青春假期》中的混混、《現代啟示錄》中年輕士兵，以及《華爾街》中道德模糊的交易員。儘管他成功轉戰電視圈，成為《市政廳風雲》與《好漢兩個半》的領銜主演，他的人生卻逐步陷入失控的漩渦之中。

如今已經戒酒的 Sheen，以清晰、誠實又帶著幽默的筆觸，記錄他的高潮與低谷。他的敘事風格鮮活、有力、獨具特色。《The Book of Sheen》讀起來就像一部荒誕而情節過度豐富的好萊塢小說——但書中每一件事都是真實的。


NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

For the first time, Charlie Sheen, the star of Platoon, Wall Street, Major League, and Two and a Half Men, writes the story of his extraordinary life in an unfiltered memoir.

“We can live the stories or hear about them later from others. I choose the former.”

Charlie Sheen should not be alive to write this book.

But in The Book of Sheen, the movie and TV star, who has defied the odds, finally presents his story, in his own words.

Charlie Sheen was born the third of four children to actor Martin Sheen and his wife, Janet. He grew up on film sets—from his father’s all over the world, to his own in Malibu. There he made ambitious Super 8s, with a roster of friends who went on to become household names themselves, including his brother Emilio, Sean and Chris Penn, and the Lowe brothers.

Sheen broke into movies in the 1980s, playing a hoodlum in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, a young soldier in Platoon, and an ethically compromised trader in Wall Street. But somewhere along the way, despite a successful transition to TV leading man in Spin City and Two and a Half Men, Sheen descended into a vortex of extracurricular activities.

Now sober, Sheen delivers a clear-eyed narrative of his highs and lows with humor, candor, and a vivid, captivating writing style that is uniquely his. The Book of Sheen reads like a far-fetched, overstuffed novel of Hollywood life—yet it is all true.