I thought this book was very inspirational on how a chicago gangbanger did his best to turn his life around. the main character is older and he stoped doing the gang thing and he's trying to quit doin drugs. There is a man that has a lot of names but he has had a rough life in the past and this book shows how he could either change his life for good or bad. The problem with his love life/ girlfriends Marilyn and "Blanca" were the same; at first they loved each other then they hated each other and broke up. Pour autoriser Verizon Media et nos partenaires à traiter vos données personnelles, sélectionnez 'J'accepte' ou 'Gérer les paramètres' pour obtenir plus d’informations et pour gérer vos choix. This dude needs a little rich dad/poor dad in his life as he seems to have the drive to earn, but needs to figure out how to leverage his earnings to work for him. I was in high school and my teacher had recommended the book since its extremely hard for certain books to catch my attention. the Discription of the main charector: rey is trying to find himself in a way becuse now he a gown man and needs to get his act together.s. ray thought that he had already proven and made a name for him self known as lil loco. His present day attitude is one of a victim. This riveting sequel to My Bloody Life traces Reymundo Sanchez’s struggle to create a “normal” life outside the Latin Kings, one of the nation's most notorious street gangs, and to move beyond his past. Start by marking “Once a King, Always a King: The Unmaking of a Latin King” as Want to Read: Error rating book. As Reymundo tries to fix his life and start over he ultimately gets pulled right back into his previous customs of drugs and violence. Harrowing testaments to Sanchez’s determination to rebuild his life include his efforts to separate his family from gang life and his struggle to adapt to marriage and the corporate world. As Reymundo tries to fix his life and start over he ultimately gets pulled right back into his previous customs of drugs and violence. I learned that Reymundo did struggle to stay out of the gang activity but him moving out of Chicago was the best thing for Reymundo Sanchez. Rey goes to jail for 4-8 years i forgot but when ray was in jail he never had a problem in there. like whatever happened to his mother after everything? His girlfriend that he had wasn’t the best to be around with knowing the life she had was the one he wanted to leave. I absolutely LOVED this book. The one thing that keeps this from being a 5 Star book is that it is highly personal, the author speaks about relational issues and physical issues that arose from the lifestyle and talks for the vast majority of the book about his relationship with sex. I believe this book was great and I am even willing to read it 3x times but if you aren’t up for these kind of drama books or books based on someone’s life whose had it pretty rough than I don’t quite recommend it. This book is actually a second part to my bloody life it still is based on reymundo sanches but it talks about his decision he made .Which was getting back to the gang life and start doing trouble.Reymundo starts living with a latin king member .but as time passes reymundo needed to do something for his nation which was kill .when reymundo got in the car with his friends to the mission they set up for him he realized he wasnt ment to be in a gang so he ran out the car and went back to his apartm, This book is actually a second part to my bloody life it still is based on reymundo sanches but it talks about his decision he made .Which was getting back to the gang life and start doing trouble.Reymundo starts living with a latin king member .but as time passes reymundo needed to do something for his nation which was kill .when reymundo got in the car with his friends to the mission they set up for him he realized he wasnt ment to be in a gang so he ran out the car and went back to his apartment and got a beaten of his life by the latin kings . “I'm pissed off because of all the fuckin' people who shut their eyes while others are victimized because it doesn't benefit them to get involved. Source(s): king king: https://shortly.im/SLPkl. He is stuck between the past and the present, what will he choose?. But Marilyn sounde like she was racist tores white wemon. I think that the book Once King Always A King is really good so far because it's teaching me not to jion a gang even though i never would its giving me more information not to for example t charand hes been character rey was in a gang called the Latin Kings and hes been in it for a while but theres this thing called a three minute beat down only if your gonna leave the gang and since rey got tired of being a drug dealer, killing people, and abusing them he left to become a regular human in humbelart park he got the three minute beat down and after he left he got a place in his friends basement and had to pay rent and after a week his friend spankys wife amelda asked her sister if she would be interested in a guy and she said yes so they met up the next day and they kinda hooked up.Soon they moved in together and it wasnt even a week yet until they decided to get married.so far tis book is really good I hope the rest is too. from the first book Overall the book was okay but it could have been better. Now what? How do you think about the answers? This sequel to the "My bloody life" series was about a Accomplished gangbanger turned into a responsible citizen, while dealing with his tough love life and cocaine addiction and trying to leave the notorious gang the Latin Kings, even though one part of his mind is focused on rejoining the Latin Kings since he won't be able to fit in with society as well; By the end of this book he learns what it meant when someone said "Once a King, Always a King" he learns from this quote that he will always identify as a Latin King and will never be able to fully leave the gang life. He is jumped out of the gang and he watches his friend's child die in his arms. Once you cut through this, you find an excellent book with an important message. 1. From this book I had learned that anything is possible through hard work and dedication no matter how hard your life is. I learned. I grew up using this phrase as did all my childhood friends. His girlfriend that he had wasn’t the best to be around with knowing the life she had was the one he wanted to leave. An excellent book overall. Rey whants to give his familly a better life then he had. The one thing that keeps this from being a 5 Star book is that it is highly personal, the author speaks about relational issues and physical issues that arose from the lifestyle and talks for the vast majority of the book about his relationship with sex. In the book they, show how hard is it t. The book “Once a King Always a King: The Unmaking of a Latin King” shows us the life of Reymundo Sanchez and the struggles he goes through from his involvement in the notorious gang The Latin Kings. I read the first book a few years ago. It was emotional, you can really feel what he was going through. This was a good book. The first book detailed so much violence and abuse that I couldn't pick up this one right away. This riveting sequel to My Bloody Life traces Reymundo Sanchez’s struggle to create a “normal” life outside the Latin Kings, one of the nation's most notorious street gangs, and to move beyond his past. Despite temptations, nightmares, regressions into violence, and his own internal demons, Sanchez makes an uneasy peace with his new life. I suspect his attempt to offer some sort of critical analysis of gangs and their cause as a result of brown matriarchy and cultural pathology is really just a half-hearted mask to convey his purely sexist hatred of women. why did i chose this book: I chose this book beacuse one i all ready read the first book. so she moves back to chicago and reymundo goes to florida. Eventually rey and Lily are going to get pulled over by the cops. Plus the power of money. he also give rey a place to stay in his house. Everything that happened was crazy. so far Rey Rey is just telling the story of how he escaped the gang life but returned and now lives with Spanky a Latin King and helps him run his drug business. Ok, I am addicted to this guy's books. the setting took place in chicago and texas. the setting took place in chicago and texas. Rey knows he can't do it yet so he goes to his old fried Gooffy. so one day she dicide to go and have a afair with rey. Where I'm at now Rey Rey betrayed the Kings and now lives with his ex-lover Loca and his new lover Lily who are also Latin Kings but keep him protected which only leads Rey Rey to go back to bad habits and more drugs and alcohol then he may be able to handle and stay out of prison. 1 decade ago. The genre: the genre of this book is memoir because he tells you what happend in parts of his life. His wife got board of just getting her cookie liked. Written by Reymundo Sanchez author of My Bloody Life, coming from Puerto Rican descent. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of, Published This book was something I didn’t expect.