Have A Nice Day: A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks
by Mick Foley, Mankind, Wwf
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Author: Mankind, Mick Foley, WwfEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2000-10-01
ISBN: 0061031011
Number of pages: 768
Publisher: HarperEntertainment
Book Reviews of Have A Nice Day: A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks
Book Review: For Wrestling Fans Only...
Summary: 3 Stars
Ultimately Foley's and WWF's decision to allow Foley to write this book himself helps as well as hurts the final product.
Foley is not a writer (though, admittedly, he's more of a writer than I am). His prose is sometimes sloppy and amateurish and his chronicles can be redundant and lacking flair. In the hands of a more polished writer this book may have had better shape and a more coherent writing style.
Because Foley wrote this himself, his passion for the sport jumps off each page and his personal desires, challenges, successes and failures are much more salient and raw. By the time your done with Have a Nice Day, you'll feel as if you could call him by his first name you wouldn't mind sharing a car ride and hotel room with him (in order to save a buck or two of course).
Foley aside, the real value in this book is the insider's take on the world of Wrestling. As we watch Foley go from enthusiast and back yard wrestler to World Wrestling Federation headliner we encounter countless old-school wrestlers, big and no-name wrestlers, those on their way up, and those on the way down, hangers-on, and behind the scenes movers and shakers as wrestling evolves from a Saturday morning novelty to an international entertainment phenomena. And that alone is worth the 500 pages Foley lays down.
Have a Nice Day will help you understand that professional wrestling is equal parts acting for effect and real blood and guts. It will also give you reasons to love or hate the wrestlers behind the characters you see on TV or stage.
If you can ignore the writing issues and have any connection to wrestling in the 80's and 90's then this is a 5-star read. However, if quality writing is important or you don't have a wrestling connection, then 3-stars is as good as it gets.
Summary of Have A Nice Day: A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks
Mick Foley is a nice man, a family man who loves amusement parks and eating ice cream in bed. So how to explain those Japanese death matches in rings with explosives, golden thumbtacks and barbed wire instead of rope? The second-degree burn tissue? And the missing ear that was ripped off during a bout-in which he kept fighting? Here is an intimate glimpse into Mick Foley's mind, his history, his work and what some might call his pathology. Now with a bonus chapter summarizing the past 15 months-from his experience as a bestselling author through his parting thoughts before his final match. A tale of blood, sweat, tears and more blood-all in his own words-straight from the twisted genius behind Cactus Jack, Dude Love, and Mankind.
Frankly, this literary critic didn't expect Mick Foley's memoir of his life as Mankind (and his other wrestling personas, Cactus Jack and Dude Love) to hit No. 1 on Amazon.com's hardcover nonfiction bestseller list in its first literary bout. The cover is cluttered and confusing, and do we really need 500-plus pages of Foley's boasts? Yes. Foley gives his all for his calling, and he burns to tell his adventures. Take the famous tale of how he lost most of his ear (the bloody result is depicted in the 16-page color-photo section). It was in his 1994 bouts with Vader (Leon White): after getting a broken nose, a dislocated jaw, and 21 stitches in the first match, Foley did his "hangman" routine, wherein he catches his neck between the second and third ropes and spins them into a twist. "The end result is the illusion of a man being hanged by his neck while his body kicks and writhes in an attempt to get out... the man actually is hanging by his neck and the body really does kick and writhe in an attempt to get out." Unfortunately, in the prior match, Too Cold Scorpio had had the officials tighten the ropes, so Foley tore off his ear to avoid death by strangulation, like "a fox that chews off its paw to escape a trap." Foley also wrestles on 10,000-thumbtack mats with barbwire ropes and C-4 explosives, and earns the ultimate compliment: "The fans really like the way you bleed." Many fans also like the way his gory story reads. --Tim Appelo
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