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lynniebeep's review
emotional
funny
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
4.0
This is an introspective memoir of Jon Moxley. The stories are fascinating and well told. Lots of interesting and lesser known details about the ins and outs of professional wrestling. It's humorous and at times emotional. I really enjoyed this.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Death and Drug use
Minor: Sexual content
peachypuff's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Drug use and Violence
Moderate: Death and Grief
Minor: Suicide
micchisaurus's review
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
5.0
The two things you need to know about me for this review:
1) I don't read very much nonfiction, especially not biographies. I'm mainly a fiction reader, with a lean towards the speculative.
2) I fucking love pro wrestling.
In theory, this book is the hottest of hot messes. There's nothing even approaching linear to this narrative. There are a lot, and I do mean A LOT, of ellipses. There are more tangents than a college level math class. The book has SIDEBARS, for fuck's sake, that don't even relate to anything else going on around them!
But here's the thing: It works. Look, I busted out highlighters to annotate this book, okay.
Jon Moxley is a storyteller, and he's damn good at it. This book reads like you're sitting down with Mox, hanging by a big ass bonfire, swapping stories. At times it is hilarious, it is anger-inducing, it is heartbreaking, it is joyful, and it is beautiful. There is vulnerability here, and the lack of a linear timeline only heightens that. Like when someone's really opening up to you, and they suddenly hard cut to a different story because it's getting too real...but they always come back, and dive in a little deeper, and show a little more.
This book is something really special. I am so glad to have read it.
1) I don't read very much nonfiction, especially not biographies. I'm mainly a fiction reader, with a lean towards the speculative.
2) I fucking love pro wrestling.
In theory, this book is the hottest of hot messes. There's nothing even approaching linear to this narrative. There are a lot, and I do mean A LOT, of ellipses. There are more tangents than a college level math class. The book has SIDEBARS, for fuck's sake, that don't even relate to anything else going on around them!
But here's the thing: It works. Look, I busted out highlighters to annotate this book, okay.
Jon Moxley is a storyteller, and he's damn good at it. This book reads like you're sitting down with Mox, hanging by a big ass bonfire, swapping stories. At times it is hilarious, it is anger-inducing, it is heartbreaking, it is joyful, and it is beautiful. There is vulnerability here, and the lack of a linear timeline only heightens that. Like when someone's really opening up to you, and they suddenly hard cut to a different story because it's getting too real...but they always come back, and dive in a little deeper, and show a little more.
This book is something really special. I am so glad to have read it.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, and Grief
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