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Post by magiccitydawg on May 26, 2010 12:24:18 GMT -5
Most books I read (With the exception of the Bible) are political in nature. And then, the authors I read are like Michael Savage, Ann Coulter, and such. But I do have a book I love to read that is not the Bible, or, a right-wing book. The book's title is Bobby The Brain, Wrestling's Bad Boy Tells All.
In talking about his younger days in the business, he tells a story about when he was in Bismark, North Dakota, with Crusher, Jim Brunzell, Larry Hennig and a few other guys. The only time the hells and the babyfaces saw each other was in the hallway. So, they were talking to each other and playing cribbage when a bunch of people walked out where they were.
Their first thought was that they would think that they all hung out together, and that they needed to protect the business. So, for some reason, they all started fighting each other. There they were, 30 guys hitting each other with worked punches. Heenan said that he got hit with a cribbage board.
Well, there are more stories in the book, so go and pick a copy up, if you can find it.
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Post by LillaThrilla on May 27, 2010 12:16:50 GMT -5
Political books would really be a topic for the General section of the forums.  Heenan's book is on my to read list. So are several other wrestler autobiographies, particularly Jericho's. As for what I've read over the years so far: "Have A Nice Day" is what got wrestling autobiographies to be taken seriously and deservedly so. Foley's subsequent books were not as good. Bret's autobiography is excellent and I would consider it the other must read, possibly even more than Foley's. I also really enjoyed the bios for Stone Cold and DDP. HBK's recent bio is better than I expected and didn't seem as biased as I'd expected. Hogan's bio on the other hand is biased, revisionist garbage. Eddie's was okay. Angle's and Golberg's were okay, but are badly out of date now. The Rock's is not only badly out of date but the last part is unreadable because he start's writing in character (remember when The Rock always talked in the 3rd person? ugh...) I've read Bischoff's book ("Controversy Creates Cash") but I'd forgotten to review/rate it on GoodReads and I don't really remember much about it. I guess I didn't find it very remarkable; I think it was not as biased as it might've been, but still wasn't particularly good. If anyone is looking for a good read on ECW, "Hardcore History" is a great book about ECW. WWE's "The Rise And Fall Of ECW" is revisionist and inferior in almost every way. On the related topic of MMA books, I liked "Blood In The Cage" and "No Holds Barred" is on my to read list because I've heard good reviews. |
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Post by magiccitydawg on May 28, 2010 0:30:18 GMT -5
Political books would really be a topic for the General section of the forums. Heenan's book is on my to read list. So are several other wrestler autobiographies, particularly Jericho's. As for what I've read over the years so far: "Have A Nice Day" is what got wrestling autobiographies to be taken seriously and deservedly so. Foley's subsequent books were not as good. Bret's autobiography is excellent and I would consider it the other must read, possibly even more than Foley's. I also really enjoyed the bios for Stone Cold and DDP. HBK's recent bio is better than I expected and didn't seem as biased as I'd expected. Hogan's bio on the other hand is biased, revisionist garbage. Eddie's was okay. Angle's and Golberg's were okay, but are badly out of date now. The Rock's is not only badly out of date but the last part is unreadable because he start's writing in character (remember when The Rock always talked in the 3rd person? ugh...) I've read Bischoff's book ("Controversy Creates Cash") but I'd forgotten to review/rate it on GoodReads and I don't really remember much about it. I guess I didn't find it very remarkable; I think it was not as biased as it might've been, but still wasn't particularly good. If anyone is looking for a good read on ECW, "Hardcore History" is a great book about ECW. WWE's "The Rise And Fall Of ECW" is revisionist and inferior in almost every way. On the related topic of MMA books, I liked "Blood In The Cage" and "No Holds Barred" is on my to read list because I've heard good reviews. Thus the title "Favorite Wrestling Books" with all due respect. Just showing that I am a well rounded person. (in more ways than weight, lol) |
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Post by BeerGeek on Jun 1, 2010 1:33:06 GMT -5
Arn Anderson 4 Ever: A Look Behind The Curtain
I wish Lou Thesz' book "Hooker" was still in print though, as I heard from a lot of old timers and wrestlers that it was the best wrestling book ever written
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Post by phudjie on Jun 1, 2010 4:23:00 GMT -5
...a couple of years ago I got a biography of Bruiser Brody by his wife and a friend of his, it was an okay read with lots of backstage stories, my favorite of which occured in the early 80s with Bruiser working a show in St. Louis against a rookie, the rookie came out first and did Brody's wildman gimmick before Bruiser came out; Bruiser got pissed off, came to the ring without doing his entrance (as it had already been done) and beat the hell out this kid, the match was a double countout, but really it was Bruiser beating the snot out of this kid...
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