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    YOUR ALL-NEW WRESTLING BOOK THREAD

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    I guess I was tracking this in ereaderiq.com, because I got a notification today that it's free.

    Do Not Try This At Home: A Cautionary Tale About Wrestling  
    by Christopher Holley  (Author), Kabita Studios (Illustrator)

    It's a children's book about wrestling. Looks like fun! 

    You need a tablet to read it though - a regular B&W e-ink Kindle won't work.

    Note: Scroll down past the Kindle Unlimited "read for free" button and click on the button under $0.00.

    Not sure how long the freebie will last. 

    https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B01KOPXRZK/

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    How is the David Shoemaker book The Squared Circle: Life, Death, and Professional Wrestling?

    It's currently on sale for $4.99 on Kindle, which is its lowest price to date, according to ereaderiq.com.

    I really liked the author's articles on Deadspin, but is this more of an overview of wrestling history? I'm kind of burned out on those (and I still have The Comic Book History of Professional Wrestling to read anyway).

    https://smile.amazon.com/Squared-Circle-Death-Professional-Wrestling-ebook/dp/B008BM4MN0/

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    Amazon's traditional Black Friday/Prime Day coupon code: NOVBOOK18 for $5 off a $20+ book order.

    I'm thinking of using it to get the Nitro book. 

    One note: For some reason, using coupon codes seems to take away your "verified purchase" status if you review the book, if you care about such things. Made me look like an illicit bootlegger when I reviewed @Liam O'Rourke's Pillman book, even though I did purchase it legitimately from Amazon. Might've just been a glitch at the time though. Who knows? 

    YOUR ALL-NEW WRESTLING BOOK THREAD

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    Full list of price drops on WWE books:

    99 cents

    - Andre the Giant: A Legendary Life

    - Showdowns: The 20 Greatest Wrestling Rivalries of the Last Twenty Years

    - Batista Unleashed

    - Cross Rhodes: Goldust, Out of the Darkness

    - Diary of a Heartbreak Kid: Shawn Michaels' Journey into the WWE Hall of Fame

    - My Favorite Match: WWE Superstars Tell the Stories of Their Most Memorable Matches

    - The World Wrestling Entertainment Yearbook 2003 Edition

    - Wrestling for My Life: The Legend, the Reality, and the Faith of a WWE Superstar

    - WWE Legends - Superstar Billy Graham: Tangled Ropes

     

    $1.99

    - Adam Copeland On Edge

    - Hollywood Hulk Hogan

    - Triple H Making the Game: Triple H's Approach to a Better Body

     

    It's been years since I've read Superstar Billy Graham: Tangled Ropes, but I remember liking it. That's probably the one sure buy for me. (Edit: I bought it.)

    Wrestling for My Life, the HBK religious/wrestling book, is surprisingly good. I actually liked it more than his first book. No idea how Diary of a Heartbreak Kid is though.

    I remember My Favorite Match being a fun read.

    Adam Copeland On Edge was written too early in his career, but it's good for what it is. This is where the JBL shower story comes from. If you look up the term "wrestling bubble," this would be it - with Edge describing the experience as some kind of rite of passage and honor, or at least that's how it came across to me.

    YOUR ALL-NEW WRESTLING BOOK THREAD

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    Cross Rhodes: Goldust, Out of the Darkness just dropped to 99 cents on Kindle. 

    Just be aware that it's more about Dustin's drug issues and daddy issues and less about his wrestling career, so don't expect any deep insight on his great matches and angles. 

    I may re-buy it on Kindle anyway - not sure yet.

    I haven't checked to see if any other WWE books have dropped in price. I'll update the thread if there's anything else.

    Edit: More below...

    YOUR ALL-NEW WRESTLING BOOK THREAD

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    Chiming in with a recommendation for Teeny: Professional Wrestling's Grand Dame. I was in the mood to read it after listing to the first few episodes of the Jerry Jarrett podcast.

    It's an absolutely riveting read and a must for any wrestling fan, historian, etc.

    You can borrow it for free with Kindle Unlimited or get the Kindle book for $4 otherwise. The paperback is around $15. However you choose to read it, it's worth it.

     

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    12 hours ago, dokdoyle said:

    I am reading WCW Nitro book that just came out and it seems very interesting, lots of details on things that we don't hear a lot about.

     

    12 hours ago, PetrolCB said:

    I haven’t heard it, and won’t. Bischoff is a fucking moron who lucked into earning millions. That’s all I have on that. 

    Is that Nitro book the Pruitt one?

    Where is this book available? I can't find it on Amazon.

    Google leads me to https://wcwnitrobook.com/ but I have no idea if that's the right book. The ebook price is way out of whack, and only in non-Kindle ePub format (I can convert it with Calibre, but the conversion is never perfect). Plus, the site doesn't exactly look professional or like something I'd feel confident giving my payment information to. Edit: I just noticed a PayPal option, so at least there's that.

    I have no idea why you wouldn't launch a book on Amazon in this day and age. Hopefully it eventually shows up there, and at a reasonable price on Kindle. $18 for an ebook is madness. Still, part of me is kinda tempted to spring for the paperback. Please let us know your thoughts after you finish it, @dokdoyle.

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    YOUR ALL-NEW WRESTLING BOOK THREAD

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    A bunch of WWE-published books are on sale for 99 cents on Kindle:

    As always, narrow the reviews by Kindle edition to make sure there are no OCR conversion issues (typos, bad formatting, etc. that weren't in the paper versions).

    - Are We There Yet?: Tales from the Never-Ending Travels of WWE Superstars

    - Big Apple Takedown (WWE)

    - The Condemned (WWE)

    - Have More Money Now: A Commonsense Approach to Financial Management (Wwe)

    - The Legends of Wrestling: "Classy" Freddie Blassie: Listen, You Pencil Neck Geeks (Wwe S)

    - Lita: A Less Traveled R.O.A.D.--The Reality of Amy Dumas (WWE)

    - Main Event: WWE in the Raging 80s

    - The Marine (WWE)

    - Rumble Road: Untold Stories from Outside the Ring (WWE)

    - See No Evil (WWE)

    - Showdowns: The 20 Greatest Wrestling Rivalries of the Last Twenty Years (WWE)

    - Tales from Wrescal Lane (WWE)

    - Triple H Making the Game: Triple H's Approach to a Better Body (WWE)

    - The Ultimate World Wrestling Entertainment Trivia Book: The Ultimate WWE Trivia Book

    - The Unauthorized History of DX (WWE)

    - Unscripted (WWE)

    - The WWE Championship: A Look Back at the Rich History of the WWE Championship

    - WWE Legends

    YOUR ALL-NEW WRESTLING BOOK THREAD

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    Jimmy Korderas's book is now $5 on Kindle. Likely a temporary sale price, but it's been that price a few times before according to ereaderiq.com. That site's price-tracker alerted me, so I bought it this time.

    The Wrestling Journeyman: Life and Times of an Indy Wrestler: From History MAKER to History Teacher by Dusty Wolfe is currently FREE on Kindle. This is a full-length book, not one of the weird 10-page articles he sells a bunch of on the Kindle store.

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    On 3/30/2018 at 1:33 PM, Tromatagon said:

    I really wish Davey Boy Smith had done a book.  He doesn't seem like the smartest dude by anyone's accounts in their books but I'd love to read his feelings on some of the stuff Dynamite talked about.

    Now you have me wanting something I never knew I wanted - and something we can never have. :(

    I wonder what his approach would have been. We'll never know, but I'm guessing he would've lightheartedly poked fun at himself.

    "Yeah, I was a fookin' dumbass, mate, but having milk injected in me arse was one way to lighten the mood. The hours were long and the miles were many. You had to have fun to pass the time. Too many people forgot how to do that. My cousin Tommy (Dynamite) had a constant stick up his arse, and don't even get me started on Bret."

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    YOUR ALL-NEW WRESTLING BOOK THREAD

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    On 3/27/2018 at 1:28 PM, JNLister said:

    Hope nobody minds a cheeky plug for my new book Purodyssey: A Tokyo Wrestling Diary. Blurb's below and you can get it in print and Kindle at Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07C8L3DFG or on your local Amazon). 

    Thanks. I see it's available through Kindle Unlimited, so I've borrowed it. Sounds like a lot of fun.

    BTW, speaking of KU, I just finished Jeanie Clarke's book. It's mostly about her massive drug problem, so it's quite depressing. The only difference between Jeanie Clarke and Melanie Pillman as parents is that Jeanie's kids still like her.

    The book's page count is padded with a lot of by-the-numbers recaps of Austin's career.

    Austin never physically abused Jeanie - or at least there's no mention of it in the book - but there are a lot of other tidbits about Austin and others.

    I'll spoiler tag them, in case people are interested in reading this. All in all, despite the depressing subject matter, there are some good tidbits. (This sentence is repeated at the end because the board is refusing to let me edit anything after the spoiler tags.)

     
    • Jeanie's mother was an alcoholic and they grew up poor and constantly on the move.
    • Chris Adams slept around and did drugs, which led to the end of their marriage - but they remained great friends, which is how they were able to work together in wrestling later on.
    • Jeanie was great friends with Gino Hernandez, did drugs with him, and found him "asleep" in the apartment but did nothing more than knock on the door. She didn't want to call the police ahead of time because they'd find his drugs. He was dead.
    • Adams forced Austin to cancel another booking, only to stiff Austin on a payoff - promising $100 but delivering only $40. Austin never trusted Adam again and cost Adams a spot in WCW. (The WWF wasn't mentioned, but I'll assume the same pattern was repeated there.)
    • Dusty named her Lady Blossom because her breasts were blossoming out of her blouse.
    • The Iceman and "Don't let your tea get stone cold" stories are repeated here.
    • Austin 3:16 was an angry response to Jeanie Clarke's newfound religious beliefs, or at the very least, he got the idea from a religious shirt Clarke made.
    • Austin was a huge mama's boy and didn't tell his mother he split from his previous wife, was with Jeanie, and Jeanie was about to have a baby until the day before the baby was born.
    • Austin's mother was a controlling bitch who never fully liked or trusted Jeanie. Austin was too timid to stand up to her.
    • With that said, he agreed against his mother's wishes to a church wedding and to be baptized. During the Baptism, he slipped and fell, and the entire church laughed at him.
    • Jeanie spiraled into drugs after they moved to a secluded Texas house and she felt trapped, caged, and had no friends or family to turn to.
    • Jim Ross once remarked that Austin should "keep that young woman in the kitchen."
    • Austin neglected Jeanie to hang out with his neighbors - two massive racists who used the n-word, hated Mexicans, etc.
    • Those same neighbors tried to kidnap the kids from Jeanie and bring them back to Austin.
    • Eventually, Jeanie moved them away to England. Austin barely made an effort to call on birthdays, holidays, etc. Basically, he became a deadbeat dad.
    • Debra was a controlling bitch, and Austin seemed afraid to trigger her temper.
    • Adams died. Toni died. Everyone was dead.
    • Jeanie had a major drug problem. Her kids finally got her help.
    • The book has lots of quotes from WCCW and WCW personalities - Terri Runnels, Terry Garvin Simms, but not Terry Bollea.

    All in all, despite the depressing subject matter, there are some good tidbits.

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    6 hours ago, davekool666 said:

    I found a bunch of books on Amazon for a kindle I will be getting soon but was wondering if they were worth it as I didn't see too many of them mentioned, although I could have missed that so dear posters, how are these?

    Tony Atlas

    Eric Bischoff

    Gary Michael Cappetta

    Bill DeMott

    Jerry Jarrett

    Bruno lauer

    Steve Lombardi

    Bobby Vlaze

    Adrian Street (any of them)

    Lance Storm

    Dr. Death Steve Williams

    Out of this list, the only ones I've read are Cappetta and Bischoff.

    I'll go against the consensus on this board (so far) and say that I personally consider the Cappetta book one of the best wrestling books I've ever read. Unlike the Bischoff book, Cappetta's career was over by this point and he had no reason to hold anything back. He's honest without being sleazy.

    Bischoff's book is like being stuck at a boring corporate board meeting, and as others have already pointed out, you aren't going to get much from it because it was written while he was still in the E.

    Warning: Lombardi's book only works on tablets (Fire or otherwise) because it's a literal re-creation of what the physical book looks like. It will not work on a traditional e-ink Kindle. Very stupid.

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    5 minutes ago, Casey said:

    LayCool were cookie cutter generic prima donna Diva gimmicks. I saw nothing special in that act, besides their chemistry, but Phoenix and Natalya has good chemistry too.

    Yet, half of the women today would benefit exponentially if they had characters as defined as LayCool was. "Generic" would describe them far more than LayCool IMO.

    Anyway, how the hell did I become the sole defender of Lay-frickin'-Cool on this board? :lol: I doubt I put as much thought into them when they were actually around. I did like their "mean girls" heel act though.

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    4 hours ago, Casey said:

    That's not how you spell Beth Phoenix and Natalya.

    They were betters acts and characters than LayCool? (Which is what I said.)

    Not even close.

    Better wrestlers? Yes, of course. (Although I always found McCool to be pretty decent in the ring - at least for the standards of the time.)

     

    3 hours ago, Victator said:

    I kinda poke fun at them during that time. But some were good and the others worked hard. Even the models who stayed worked hard. So anything I say is in good fun. 

    A lot of AJ Lee's stuff comes across as hollow with how she buried anyone she worked with. Actions say more than words. 

    How did AJ bury people? Do you mean her so-called "pipe bomb" promo, or something else?

    I'm pretty sure that was just a way of highlighting Total Divas and creating a storyline between her and them.

    'Course, she and Punk seemed to have a perpetual chip on their shoulders, so it wouldn't surprise me in the least if she really did consider herself "above" the other women (which is both understandable and arrogant).

     

    3 hours ago, OSJ said:

    One of the biggest problems was that the women who were actually good wrestlers didn't get much of an opportunity to show it. I was thinking of this when I heard that Lisa Moretti was going into the WWE HOF, between GLOW, POW, and WWE what a horrible waste of a great talent. I'm grateful for what we did get to see, but damn it, she could have done so much more if allowed to. For fuck's sake she was trained by Mando Guerrero, poor gal was born twenty or thirty years too early. Imagine what she'd be doing today if she were 26 or 36, not 56.

    Agreed. Ivory was criminally wasted.

    So was Molly Holly.

    Ironically, Molly is inducting Ivory into the HOF. I imagine they probably related to being pushed aside.

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    You guys act like there were only shitty models during that era, but there were some good wrestlers too. I agree, though - there were definitely more shitty models than good wrestlers.

    In AJ's book, she talked about how frustrating it was to be passionate about wrestling because that was seemingly used against her.

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