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Post by 2coldMack is even more baffled on Dec 14, 2015 16:26:21 GMT -5
Kurt Angle, Chyna, Rock Those are the only ones I was unable to read as they just were awful and didn't seem real. I think they were ghost written cash outs from the great Mick Foley book. Hogan's book also stinks somewhat compared to what it should've been. Yet it doesn't reach humiliation level like my above mentioned three. It's morbid, and kind of shitty besides, to think about, but I bet once Hogan dies, a lot of WAY more honest, less whitewashed books about that dude are gonna come out.
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Post by kingoftheindies on Dec 16, 2015 7:42:24 GMT -5
Didn't Death of WCW just have a reprint come out and it was admitted that some of the stuff in the book ended up being inaccurate?
I do know there were several things in there that the writing made it sound like some things done were unintentional comedy but if you actually go back and look they were actually not. As previously mentioned the book makes fun of Karagious and creative for saying that 3 count's album went Platinum and the next would go gold bur if you watch the segment after that he said that the announcers just made fun of him for being dumb.
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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on Dec 30, 2015 12:24:19 GMT -5
Love him, but Rock's in character was terrible. Reading that book makes you realize that as cool as Dwayne Johnson is, The Rock isn't someone you'd want to hang out with for very long. What a douche.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2015 21:21:26 GMT -5
Ring of Hell was one book that I didn't like about the Benoit situation, because it is both a cash grab as well as an open demonization of Vince McMahon, where the writer basically states that while Vince never killed anybody, he's responsible for a lot of deaths. Also, he called Randy Orton "a gay porn star".
I also hated The Rock Says, mostly because the normal chapters are okay at best, but in character, he's just spouting random curse words left and right and going on tangents... that stuff may sound funny when spoken, but in paper, it's not a good read.
And, one more book? I actually have to say Scott Keith's "Tonight in This Very Ring", which felt like he was being a poor man's Meltzer, with the only part that was good was his comparison of 1995 WWF to King Lear. Though, admittingly, I thought his own book on the Benoit situation was actually good.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2015 21:24:26 GMT -5
World Wrestling Insanity, which was like a ripoff of Death of WCW but about how Steph and HHH are ruining WWE, complete with very a very badly photoshopped cover. Aw, shit, I forgot about this dreck. Every other page was a dumb Photoshop photo. I gave up after the first chapter.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2015 21:57:30 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. It was such an embarrassing book to buy at Borders. The cover prominently features Vince's bare ass and Shelton crotching the top rope while making a ridiculous face. The cashier was this white-haired English woman and she was asking me questions like "why is that man's bottom exposed?" I never really liked the Wrestlecrap books anyway though. The level of insight and humor doesn't even live up to what I see here a lot of the time.
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Post by And Eee on Jan 2, 2016 5:20:07 GMT -5
I didn't like the reprint of Death of WCW. Bought it on sale thinking it would have expanded and gone into more detail than the original (which I liked despite some flaws and obvious objectivity). After reading it I thought they didn't deliver on promises like adding where they got most of their major info from but then again that's more the fool me i guess. Thought it might have corrected some mistakes like having three beginnings of the end and the mentioned 3 Count joke among other inaccuracies. Also was hoping for a epilogue that would cover the WWE treatment of WCW, a bit about TNA and the impact WCW had on wrestling. Instead there was just a list ripped straight from LOLTNA and even that wasnt acurate. Overall I thought it was pretty lazy.
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