Foley's autobiographies

[Doctor Tull-eus S. Venture]

Dec 28, 2009 9:04:42 GMT -5 Steveweiser said:

The third book is pretty much about a booking idea that didn't happen the way Foley wanted it. If anything, it's a good view about how the writers and Vince process angles.

On one hand, Foley does have a good mind for the business. His ideas were sound, and he genuinely cared about trying to get the fans behind the new ECW, and trying to help Randy out. Plus, he wasn't trying to have himself pencilled in to win matches or bury anybody.

On the other hand, he did make too much emphasis on his charity work and how he knows the divas and such. Nobody can take the good work that Mick has done away from him, and he deserves endless credit for doing those things. However, he did come across as being somewhat condescending about it, in particular, when others weren't doing as much as he was.

It was an interesting read, but Have a Nice Day is so much better.

I do have high hopes for Countdown to Lockdown, though.

[captaineasychord]

Here's a link to a review I wrote for OWW shortly after the book came out if anyone is interested.

www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/temp/books/hardcorediaries.html

[Fiddleford H. McGucket]

Personally, the first two were really the only pure "Biographies" of the bunch. The third was more of an On-the-road diary and memoir. I'd recommend reading it twice, once as a completely objective read, and once again taking into account all the backstage shenanigans that necessitated his release.

Personally I re-read it shortly after Foley "Defected" to TNA and I found the book to be far more bitter than I remembered.

I personally fear the more than likely muckraking and "tell-all" nature of the book would likely destroy his credibility.

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I loved his first two books. Have A Nice Day is one of the only books to make me laugh to the point of almost pissing himself. The part where he talks about his dad cussing whenever he'd mess up on a typewriter and then Mick would laugh at him, causing him to cuss even more...for some reason the mental image of that always makes me laugh.

[KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!!]

I agree with the OP's assessment of the first two books. I haven't read the third one, but from that long rant Foley gave about censorship and such at the end of his second book and what I have heard of the third book, I would not expect it to live up to his earlier work.

Also, as far as other autobiographies go, I second Chris Jericho's book. Also Bischoff's book Controversy Creates Cash was a pretty fun read (though with a hefty amount of typos and some lazy research).

[Chiral]

"As some of you know, I will have a new book coming out in early fall 2010, tiltled "Countdown to Lockdown". The book is largely finished - I just have to write two last chapters in the next few weeks. I'm a pretty tough judge of my own work, but I am very happy with it, and believe that anyone who has enjoyed any of my earlier books, will enjoy this one as well.

I will occasionally be posting sneak peaks at the book on my new TNA blog, in addition to some chapters that won't be available in the book. For example, I wrote a pretty good chapter called "Name Dropping", consisting of my personal dealings with several celebrities. Unfortunately, the chapter was about 20,000 words long, and kind of got in the way of the wrestling story I was telling in the book. So I figured I would just kind of randomly make some of these accounts available to fans on the web."

[triplealbert]

Mick got hit too many times in the head.

[Slammywinner]

It is a diary form and has a very flow of consciousness approach. And as a result, I didn't like it. He shares such behind the scenes insight as "This chair hurts my ass. I need to find a more comfortable chair to write this book in." and "I'm really screwing up my verb tenses. I hope my editor can make sense of this." And "It's 3 in the morning and I have to be at RAW tomorrow. My knee hurts. Why did I agree to write an autobiography during a comeback?" If you find that sort of thing compelling reading, go ahead and buy it.

[franchisedavis]

I just saw and episode of kitchen Nightmares and Foley showed up for the new opening of the the "handle bar"

Funny thing is no one on the show mentioned that he was there just that Dee Snyder was there, I don't remember him mentioning that in his book but I remember him saying he was good friends with Snyder.