The former Oakland A's slugger comes clean about his past steroid use in this memoir, and implicates dozens of other Major League Baseball players in the process. Is he telling the truth? You make the call!
Critic Reviews
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Mixed
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Boston Globe Bill Nowlin
Whatever the ego of the man who wrote it, Canseco's inevitably self-serving Juiced comes across as a dash of realism and candor, which may also help to prompt stricter controls and testing, perhaps to adopt Olympic standards -- if that is what audiences really want.
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Mixed
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Houston Chronicle Richard H. Costa
Juiced omits nothing — not his abuse of Jessica, his second wife, from whom he's divorced; not his month in a Florida jail for breaking probation; not his tales of strip-joint sex; not his citing of Roger Clemens as the only player he knows who has never cheated on his wife and of Jason Giambi as the prime misuser of steroids.
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Mixed
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Flak Mark Hayes
Bold and brash, and a little awkward at times, Juiced is a book that only Jose Canseco could write. Just like its author when he played baseball, readers and fans might not like the truths Juiced has to offer, but they're going to have to deal with them one way or another.
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Terrible
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Publishers Weekly
Poorly written... Despite the headline-grabbing claims in this book, whether Canseco really knows anything about the problem beyond his own use is questionable.
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Terrible
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Los Angeles Times Allen Barra
The worst sports book so far in three centuries... A shoddy, bush league knockoff for which no one except Canseco seems to want to take any credit. [23 Feb 2005, p.E6]
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Terrible
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New York Observer Rob Neyer
With each turn of the page, his credibility slips another notch... If we can't believe the stuff we can check, why should we believe the stuff we can't?... In the end, actually, one gets the overwhelming impression that Mr. Canseco is delusional. [21 Feb 2005, p.6]
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