"I built my American dream on rep at a time," says Bob Paris in Gorilla Suit, an unguarded memoir of his rise to the top of the world of professional bodybuilding.

This is the first-ever, honest, behind-the-scenes look into the world of professional bodybuilding and what the actual life of a bodybuilder is like. Paris shows us the heart of the competition, explains what drives these athletes to push their bodies to the limit, and beyond, and discusses the price bodybuilders pay for this perfection, whick includes the use of dadngerous growth drugs. Paris also looks at the driving forces behind the business of bodybuilding, including extra-ordinary story of the Weider brothers.

This is a story about chasing a dream, being willing to do anything to get that dream, and then growing frustrated with the world that dream is lived in. It is the discovery that, after years of climbing a mountain and finally reaching the top, perhaps on reconsideration it was the wrong mountain to begin with.

This book shows a champion bodybuilders life and observations on the sport of bodybuilding. This is a very revealing book on the pitfalls of bodybuilding. The book is very candid. I liked the book.