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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: Drug abuse, Death, and Grief
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