Lex Luger has had one hell of a ride in the wrasslin’ business. Achieving superstar status very early in his career, he competed in main event matches all over the world. While the fame, fortune and respect of his peers made him a very successful performer, his personal life suffered through years of drug and…
Maus tells the story of Vladek, a Holocaust survivor living in New York. His son Art (also the author), interviews his father about his time spent dodging capture as well as his imprisonment at Auschwitz. Vladek recounts those who helped him, who betrayed him and the Nazis who murdered his friends and family. When not…
Lance Storm returns with a second collection of commentaries taken from his long running website, StormWrestling.com. This time around, we’re picking up just as Lance has arrived in WWE and continue straight through to his retirement as a full-time performer in 2004. As a lot of these commentaries were written shortly after or in the…
“No party music, no girl magnet ballads. Just brutal, attack-oriented, audio death”. ..and with that quote, it becomes impossible to really sum up Metallica better. I’ve been a big fan of these guys since I was 15 years old and finally welcomed the chance to read an official biography on the band. Although, while it’s…
When I first heard about this book, I was still seething from when Jay Leno took the Tonight Show away from O’Brien after only seven months of some hit or miss shows. Funny thing, for whatever reason, my hatred of Leno blinded me to the sheer stupidity of NBC. When I was finished this book,…
Jimmy Korderas is an anomaly in the wrestling business. Not only is he one of the few referees (perhaps the only one) to write a book but he’s also one of the few former WWE employees without some sort of an agenda. He’s a self professed glass-half-full kind of guy and tries his hardest to…
It should be no secret by now that I love books about professional wrestling. Whether it’s about a performer’s career or a take on a promotion or an organization itself, it’s a tremendous source of entertainment. Stories about shenanigans taking place behind the scenes can always succeed in getting a laugh out of me. The…
So, there’s this scene in David Fincher’s Zodiac in which Jake Gyllenhaal’s character, Robert Graysmith, visits the home of someone he believes to be the famed Zodiac killer. As Graysmith ventures down in the suspect’s basement, there’s this sense of dread that’s instilled in the viewer as they wonder if Graysmith will make it out…
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