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A review by chaitanyasethi
No Is a Four-Letter Word: How I Failed Spelling But Succeeded in Life by Chris Jericho
3.0
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Chris Jericho is one of my all-time favourite wrestlers. I've read his trilogy of autobiographies (A Lion's Tale, Undisputed, The Best in the World...) which end at his triumphant 2013 Royal Rumble. Therefore I was going into this book with the same mindset, that it would pick up from where he left off and continue.
However this was a semi-self-help-autobiography hybrid where he has written about life lessons and elaborated upon how he reflected them in his life. Self help isn't really my cup of tea so I didn't really care for it but the incidents and nuggets he shared about his life and career were all fun to read. There is a lot of name dropping of rock legends but I'm not a huge rock fan so I couldn't recognize or appreciate the value of the name dropping per se. The wrestling bits I enjoyed thoroughly.
Chris has a funny, corny, dad-jokey way of writing that I find nice to read. He uses ample puns and double entendres. He writes in a simple and direct fashion and it is very conversational in tone. Sometimes his confidence comes across as arrogance and sometimes he pretends to write as an arrogant character, which can be confusing to distinguish. Nonetheless it is always fun as a 'mark' to be a fly on the wall for such people, to find out what these guys do backstage and how they are behind their characters. This was a decent read that I breezed through in a couple of days.
Chris Jericho is one of my all-time favourite wrestlers. I've read his trilogy of autobiographies (A Lion's Tale, Undisputed, The Best in the World...) which end at his triumphant 2013 Royal Rumble. Therefore I was going into this book with the same mindset, that it would pick up from where he left off and continue.
However this was a semi-self-help-autobiography hybrid where he has written about life lessons and elaborated upon how he reflected them in his life. Self help isn't really my cup of tea so I didn't really care for it but the incidents and nuggets he shared about his life and career were all fun to read. There is a lot of name dropping of rock legends but I'm not a huge rock fan so I couldn't recognize or appreciate the value of the name dropping per se. The wrestling bits I enjoyed thoroughly.
Chris has a funny, corny, dad-jokey way of writing that I find nice to read. He uses ample puns and double entendres. He writes in a simple and direct fashion and it is very conversational in tone. Sometimes his confidence comes across as arrogance and sometimes he pretends to write as an arrogant character, which can be confusing to distinguish. Nonetheless it is always fun as a 'mark' to be a fly on the wall for such people, to find out what these guys do backstage and how they are behind their characters. This was a decent read that I breezed through in a couple of days.