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Old 08-07-2008, 06:43 PM   #1
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Anybody else read Bobby the Brain Heenan's Autobiography?
Just finished reading it and it's fantastic. Lots of great road stories, especially about his career early on.
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Old 08-07-2008, 09:36 PM   #2
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Which one did you read specifically. I have had some of his books on my amazon shopping cart few times, but never buy em. Just got 25 dolla gift certifcate for amazon got nothing to buy. May do work finally.
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Old 08-07-2008, 09:45 PM   #3
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The one with him and Steve Anderson with the forword by Hulk Hogan
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Old 08-08-2008, 06:36 PM   #4
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Yeah, I was looking at more for the proper title cause from what I recall he wrote a couple. Could be thinking bout Dibiase tho.
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Old 08-08-2008, 08:25 PM   #5
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I've read two of his books. Definitly awesome.
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Old 08-09-2008, 01:02 AM   #6
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Heenan Stories are awesome. Especially the ones about Andre.
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Old 08-10-2008, 02:36 PM   #7
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The stories about his time in the AWA invovling Wally Karbo and Verne Gagne are hilarious
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Old 08-10-2008, 06:48 PM   #8
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Both books are good, fun, humourous reads. The title, by the way, is Bobby The Brain: Wrestling's Bad Boy Tells All (or something along those lines) which is basically his autobiography, the first book published. The second book is part autobiography and part Heenan's "philosophy on life" and it's called Chairshots and Life's Other Obstacles or something like that.

You can tell it's ghostwritten though, but not as much as some other wrestling biogs. I read DiBiase's new book recently and found it pretty lacking, more like a timeline with occasional opinions than an in-depth look at his career. Much like Shawn Michaels' book, it only ever really skims the surface.

I know it's hardly an original opinion, but Foley and Jericho's books are the best out there that I have read, and that has to be because they wrote it themselves and therefore go more in-depth and elaborate on things. Dynamite Kid's book is good because of it's honesty if you are interested in that time period at all. Yet to read Bret Hart's book but it's on order so shouldn't be long.
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Old 08-10-2008, 06:51 PM   #9
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Thus far, either DiBiase's or Rock's (whilst both offer some positives) have to be among the most disappointing. As for the worst? Hogan's and Piper's books should be in the fiction section of each bookstore.
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Old 08-11-2008, 02:23 AM   #10
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The Chairshots and Other Obstacles, etc. book is pure gold. Great stories, great insight into things, and I love how his opinion is tossed in there here and there not just about a bunch of regular things, but of topics that don't get discussed too often. That has to be in my top 10 wrestling autobiographies.

Another good read was Missing Link's book. Also, Bill Watts' book, and Harley Race's. All very, very solid reads that were entertaining and informative at the same time.
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Old 08-12-2008, 06:54 PM   #11
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Which one did you read specifically. I have had some of his books on my amazon shopping cart few times, but never buy em. Just got 25 dolla gift certifcate for amazon got nothing to buy. May do work finally.
btw, it's "The Brain, Wrestling's Bad Boy Tell's all"
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The story about the Ultimate Warrior and Andre, is the best story in any wrestling book ever. I think Heenan actually talked about it on the warrior dvd.
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