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Body Drop: Notes on Fandom and Pain in Professional Wrestling by Brian Oliu

cokester's review

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emotional funny reflective fast-paced

5.0

melindamaureen's review

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emotional funny informative reflective sad fast-paced

0.5

colinrafferty's review

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adventurous challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

Both the essay and pro wrestling are spaces for the obsessive, and Oliu’s love of both are a champion tag team in this volume. The body and pain, presentation and backstage, the true and the pretend all duke it out in service of your entertainment. Would some familiarity with pro wrestling or the OLU (Oliu Literary Universe) help? Possibly. But the sentences are still top-notch.
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