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Post by StormanReigns on Dec 9, 2015 23:32:53 GMT -5
Basically the title. Name a book you disliked.
For me, it is 99% of autobiographies of athletes. Often filled with made up stories that are largely contradicted by their own interviews.
"The Rock Says" was particularly bad at this. He tells a story of everyone in a gym stopping what they were doing to and applauding when he landed on his feet taking a back body drop, and the story of how he met his wife was completely different than any story he gave in an interview about her
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Post by Emmet Russell on Dec 9, 2015 23:37:13 GMT -5
Does this have to be wrestling books? Seeing as it's in the wrestling section?
If so; Mick Foley's Hardcore Diaries was atrocious.
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Post by tms on Dec 10, 2015 1:18:10 GMT -5
Scott Keith foisted the market with absolute hackery. His books were copy/pasted "insight" from stuff that most likely came from Meltzer/Keller with his own opinions mixed in. More egregious than that, however, was his copy/pasting match reviews verbatim into the book from his original online recaps just to pad the page count.
Absolute dreck.
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Post by Mozenrath on Dec 10, 2015 1:20:51 GMT -5
The one with "Rocky Melvin" is up there in terms of stupidity and a trying to cash in.
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Post by Saul Goodman on Dec 10, 2015 1:28:15 GMT -5
I bought a book about Benoit, I forgot the name of it. It was made just for the author to cash in a hot topic for the time.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2015 2:02:22 GMT -5
Does this have to be wrestling books? Seeing as it's in the wrestling section? If so; Mick Foley's Hardcore Diaries was atrocious. Hardcore Diaries was a humble brag onslaught that no one could possibly prepare for. The only part that stuck with me that I enjoyed was his fight to get as much undistilled Terry Funk craziness on WWE TV as possible. Diana Hart's book was pretty rough but that was kind of the draw, I got it from the library past the point that the book was recalled from stores so I just needed to see for myself what the fuss was about. I feel bad for her if some of what she says is true but she comes pretty close to saying she was the best wrestler of the Hart family and that Bret's jealousy of her kept her from realizing her potential.
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Post by celticjobber on Dec 10, 2015 3:01:38 GMT -5
Daniel Bryan's book was good overall, but the sections (seemingly written by a WWE intern) bragging about his life as a big superstar inserted at the start of each chapter really hurt the flow of the book.
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Post by Reflecto on Dec 10, 2015 6:26:03 GMT -5
Chyna's autobiography is the one book I didn't get one remotely redeeming benefit from reading.
Not even in wrestling books. Anything. I've gotten more redeeming qualities from a tattered Bazooka Joe comic than I did from that piece of crap.
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Post by Halloween on Dec 10, 2015 13:16:18 GMT -5
The Death of WCW.
Bought it way back in the day (Like 05-06 if I remember correctly) and trusted what was written because I was a dumb kid. A number of years later I started watching old WCW shows and learning more about WCW thanks to shoot interviews becoming huge and guys like Eric Bischoff being released from their WWE contracts and discussing the topic.
Having looked back on the book now I feel they're pretty harsh on WCW and a lot of the times point blank fabricate things to get a "LOL WCW" comment in. They very much believe that Eric Bischoff is a one trick pony who was in the right place at the right time and I just never got into that.
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Dec 10, 2015 13:37:53 GMT -5
Love him, but Rock's in character was terrible.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Dec 10, 2015 13:44:18 GMT -5
Wrestlecrap Book of Lists... Bought the other two WC books and they were at least interesting if not entirely factual...
but this just wasn't nearly as funny as I think RD and Blade thought it was.
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Post by LexExpress on Dec 10, 2015 13:45:40 GMT -5
The Death of WCW. Bought it way back in the day (Like 05-06 if I remember correctly) and trusted what was written because I was a dumb kid. A number of years later I started watching old WCW shows and learning more about WCW thanks to shoot interviews becoming huge and guys like Eric Bischoff being released from their WWE contracts and discussing the topic. Having looked back on the book now I feel they're pretty harsh on WCW and a lot of the times point blank fabricate things to get a "LOL WCW" comment in. They very much believe that Eric Bischoff is a one trick pony who was in the right place at the right time and I just never got into that. Any examples of things that were fabricated? I've read it loads of times but never really sought out alternative sources so I'm curious. My biggest letdown was Luger's book. Who would've thought a pro wrestler's autobiography would only have about 5% wrestling content in it.
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Post by I'm Team Bayley and Indi on Dec 10, 2015 13:48:45 GMT -5
Chyna's book was rubbish, can also remember that she was in D-X with Sean Michaels.
Hardcore Diaries, I think just soured me on Foley, I don't think I've been as big a fan of his since.
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Post by MC Blowfish on Dec 10, 2015 13:49:01 GMT -5
Chyna's book was awful. Mick Foley's Countdown to Lockdown, I actually read a couple of chapters out of and didn't finish it. Ring of Hell was pretty bad just because it seemed like it was more "I heard this from someone who used to work for WWE."
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Post by MC Blowfish on Dec 10, 2015 13:49:52 GMT -5
The Death of WCW. Bought it way back in the day (Like 05-06 if I remember correctly) and trusted what was written because I was a dumb kid. A number of years later I started watching old WCW shows and learning more about WCW thanks to shoot interviews becoming huge and guys like Eric Bischoff being released from their WWE contracts and discussing the topic. Having looked back on the book now I feel they're pretty harsh on WCW and a lot of the times point blank fabricate things to get a "LOL WCW" comment in. They very much believe that Eric Bischoff is a one trick pony who was in the right place at the right time and I just never got into that. Are you Vince Russo or Eric Bischoff?
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Post by wahoowah11 on Dec 10, 2015 13:54:34 GMT -5
Chyna's book was rubbish, can also remember that she was in D-X with Sean Michaels. Hardcore Diaries, I think just soured me on Foley, I don't think I've been as big a fan of his since. Hardcore Diaries did that to me too for Foley, now I just find him annoying.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2015 14:12:53 GMT -5
The Death of WCW. Bought it way back in the day (Like 05-06 if I remember correctly) and trusted what was written because I was a dumb kid. A number of years later I started watching old WCW shows and learning more about WCW thanks to shoot interviews becoming huge and guys like Eric Bischoff being released from their WWE contracts and discussing the topic. Having looked back on the book now I feel they're pretty harsh on WCW and a lot of the times point blank fabricate things to get a "LOL WCW" comment in. They very much believe that Eric Bischoff is a one trick pony who was in the right place at the right time and I just never got into that. Yeah I didn't like it either, I thought the Wrestlecrap book was even worse though because it should have been a fun book but barely halfway through it just started listing the sins of Hulk Hogan and dwelled on politics, as if he started writing the Death of WCW before he even finished writing Wrestlecrap.
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Post by 2coldMack is even more baffled on Dec 10, 2015 14:47:19 GMT -5
The Death of WCW. Bought it way back in the day (Like 05-06 if I remember correctly) and trusted what was written because I was a dumb kid. A number of years later I started watching old WCW shows and learning more about WCW thanks to shoot interviews becoming huge and guys like Eric Bischoff being released from their WWE contracts and discussing the topic. Having looked back on the book now I feel they're pretty harsh on WCW and a lot of the times point blank fabricate things to get a "LOL WCW" comment in. They very much believe that Eric Bischoff is a one trick pony who was in the right place at the right time and I just never got into that. Any examples of things that were fabricated? I've read it loads of times but never really sought out alternative sources so I'm curious. My biggest letdown was Luger's book. Who would've thought a pro wrestler's autobiography would only have about 5% wrestling content in it. Most of the "fabricated" stuff in Death of WCW is stuff that basically boils down to the authors being backed up with research vs. the subject of the negativity going "Nah, it didn't happen like that, and here's several spurious reasons why". Basically a "He said, she said" situation.
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Post by tms on Dec 10, 2015 16:09:14 GMT -5
What was so bad about Hardcore Diaries, for someone who hasn't read it but read Foley's first two books? I personally felt he came across as a braggart underneath his affable persona in his earliest work.
And on the subject of Foley, I absolutely despised the last chapter or two of Foley is Good, wherein he tried to counter legitimate criticisms of WWF's sleaze and raunch by comparing it to other shows. Guess what Mick, Toys R Us never sold Cheers action figures for kiddies.
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Post by Limity (BLM) on Dec 10, 2015 17:04:49 GMT -5
What was so bad about Hardcore Diaries, for someone who hasn't read it but read Foley's first two books? I personally felt he came across as a braggart underneath his affable persona in his earliest work. And on the subject of Foley, I absolutely despised the last chapter or two of Foley is Good, wherein he tried to counter legitimate criticisms of WWF's sleaze and raunch by comparing it to other shows. Guess what Mick, Toys R Us never sold Cheers action figures for kiddies. Imagine the "wont someone think of the children?!" clip from Simpsons stretched out into an entire book, with very little to do with wrestling.
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