willriker's review against another edition
3.0
The book got 3 stars because I couldn't give it 2.5 stars.
To be honest, it's not the worst wrestling book that I've read, and I have read a few, but it's just the disjointed narrative that I didn't like about this one. Although, that said, I can imagine that sitting having a conversation with Bobby Heenan would be a lot like reading this book, with him jumping from one story to the next and leaving you with a feeling that he didn't quite finish up the previous story in its entirety.
But for long time wrestling fans there is a lot of good in this book if you can get past the slightly annoying narrative style, from how the business has changed from the old territory days, right up to the monopoly of the business by the WWE, (or WWF as it was when the book was written). I guess I'd recommend it more for long term wrestling fans rather than those who have just come to it in recent years as they won't have a clue who half the people mentioned in the book even are, and for the long time fans it's interesting but not really in depth enough. For all it's tagged as "Wrestling's Bad Boy Tells All" you're left with the feeling afterwards that he really didn't tell all and that there's a whole lot that he left out.
Certainly worth a read if you're a wrestling fan though, just not as good as I had hoped or expected.
To be honest, it's not the worst wrestling book that I've read, and I have read a few, but it's just the disjointed narrative that I didn't like about this one. Although, that said, I can imagine that sitting having a conversation with Bobby Heenan would be a lot like reading this book, with him jumping from one story to the next and leaving you with a feeling that he didn't quite finish up the previous story in its entirety.
But for long time wrestling fans there is a lot of good in this book if you can get past the slightly annoying narrative style, from how the business has changed from the old territory days, right up to the monopoly of the business by the WWE, (or WWF as it was when the book was written). I guess I'd recommend it more for long term wrestling fans rather than those who have just come to it in recent years as they won't have a clue who half the people mentioned in the book even are, and for the long time fans it's interesting but not really in depth enough. For all it's tagged as "Wrestling's Bad Boy Tells All" you're left with the feeling afterwards that he really didn't tell all and that there's a whole lot that he left out.
Certainly worth a read if you're a wrestling fan though, just not as good as I had hoped or expected.
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