The real world is faker than wrestling (Foley Is Good - Mick Foley)

Member Name: Wolfboy

Product:	Foley Is Good - Mick Foley
Date:	22/05/04 (109 review reads)
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Advantages: Funny and Witty Humour, Serious when needed

Disadvantages: Doesnt have much of his wrestling career, need to read Have a nice day first

For anyone starting off wanting a comparison to have a nice day, its simple. Some people will have a nice day because it has more pages, wrestling, foul language and a lot more blood. Some people like this one because it has less pages, wrestling, foul language and blood. However whether you are a foley fan, a wrestling fan or just a normal reader you should still think about picking up a copy and heres why.

The book starts off exactly where the last one left off. January 1999, I Quit match with the Rock for the World Wrestling Federation championship. For those just finishing off the last book, this is exactly what you'll be looking for because now you dont have to read "the rocks damn book."

Foley continues to write excellently of course bringing his own entertaining style back to the book. He does detail some of his matches, but mostly about his life outside wrestling. His career was comming to an end at this point anyway. He details his feelings going into those last few matches with Triple H for the Street fight and Hell in a cell matches. He also make fun comment like 'I didnt feel too lucky going into the match, if you know what I mean.'

Of course as said above the book is not all about his career this time. Foley touches upon issues such as backyard wrestling, cases where people have been hurt or killed and it has been blamed on wrestling for the violent content and violence in childrens TV. He backs up his cases well and maybe your own opinions might change as you read on.
He even mentions about how in an interview he gave for TV, talking obout Backyard wrestling where part of his sentence was cut out and made him look like an idiot.

These breaks are of course well welcomed every few chapters and it is good to know how he feels. He speaks alot about the
first book in this as well. A few things he wrote in it upset a few wrestlers and other people for real and foley does them better than any norm
al apology but gives them at least a paragraph in the book dedicated to it.

There are a lot of funny moments too. These include a match he had with Billy Gunn, where he told the fan he was sorry about the match he was about to have because he wanted to go see Britney Spears perform. This all surrounding a joke he played and the Blue Meanie with stevie richards. And there was an interesting paragraph about test winning the hardcore championship after that. And there was 'the legend of the Penis Suplex'

He finishes off with a short piece about his days as the commisioner of WWF. The days filled with no hard knocks and lots of cheap pops. He had decided at that point to become a role model for Nerds and was certainly an interesting chapter of his life.

Overall this book is great. He continues his witty humour throughout, but knows when to keep it serious. I personally prefered his first book because I missed out on most of his career and found it interesting to know about his childhood. However this book touches on a few issues that make it an epic biography as well. I would recommend it to anyone who wants to read it. Its slightly shorter than the other one too. The only thing I strongly recommend is that you read have a nice day first. Non-wrestling fans should read the background to him first, and wrestling fans will probably have already read the first one anyway. Foley isnt a number 1 best selling author for nothing!

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