Quote Originally Posted by Fenster View Post
Well, to be honest, i'm not really impressed by crazy violent lunatics bragging about bashing people up.

Ive known some seriously violent people in the real world and now hate that lifestyle.

Shaw's book was complete shit. To me he's either mentally ill or thick as shit and certainly not someone i would want to be around. I read it in two sittings whilst working behind a bar.
Agree completely, I've grown up around people like this & in the most part they are nasty pieces of work.

The guy I mentioned in the previous post was virtually no different to Lenny McLean, but because of a romanticization of 60s mobsters, McLean is seen as a 'hard bastard, real sound top fella', whilst Sparks is seen (rightly) as a one man crimewave & vicious killer. Not all criminals & fighters are like that, but McLean (& I have to admit I enjoyed his book) was a bully who knew it. He was not one of these guys standing up for the little guy & the picked upon. Fact.