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Summary: Mankind Have A Nice Day
Review: If you like wrestling, or even if you don't, you will love this book. A very detailed book that tells you the events of a strong, driven man who would not stop until he achieved his dream! It is a true story of how a family should stand behind you no matter what you decide to do in life. This book gives in detail what goes on in and out of the wrestling ring. Mick Foley lets every fan know how, although some things are planned, the pain and sacrifice that is made to make it look good to the fan is real. A wrestling fan or not, this is a great book to read, especially if you think things should be handed to you on a silver platter. This book makes you realize that hard work and determination must play a part in everyones life, even the famous.
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Summary: The Best Wrestling Book On The Market
Review: I found that this was without a doubt the best wrestling book on the market, it not only told you a ton of secrets which delt with the industry, it let you in on the life of one of the more promenent wresters in the industry. If you like to read stories of different wrestlers private lives, it's in here, if you want to know about training to become a professional wrestler, it's in here, if you would just like to read a fantastic story about a man who overcame a lot of triles and tribulations to find his dream it's in here. I have been watching wrestling for twenty years, and read a ton of books on it, but none and I mean none, can compare to this book by a long shot.
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Summary: Outstanding book
Review: I must say that I had my doughts about how good the book would be and even wether or not I would be able to finish it, but I finished it and enjoyed every page. After I read the first chapter I knew it would be a great book. The first chapter is funny although from there on he gets serious for the most part. The book goes through how Mankind accomplished his dreams and asperations of becoming the wwf champion. This book mentions a few things about what goes on behind the curtian, but he talks mainly about his personal struggle and how he gained his respect and beat all the critics. After reading this book I believe I know everything there is to know about Mick Foley. The thing I enjoyed the most about this book and The Rock's is how the y paid tribute to the people who helped them get there and to the fellow wrestlers who they respected, especially Owen Hart, I was there on that terriable day and I cried while I read both of there tributes to this great man.
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Summary: Mick Foley: Man of Madness, Morals and Modesty
Review: This book is one of the best that I've seen about any professional wrestler. Mick Foley has been through hell, and going through even more these days now.I highly recommend this book to anyone who likes Mankind, Cactus Jack, Dude Love or Mick Foley as himself. This book tells about how Mick Foley got his start in wrestling, his gruesome hardcore battles in the various wrestling leagues and of course, his background stuff like his family. Get this book. It's excellent. Wonderful read. I couldn't put it down, and I'm not a real big reader. Wrestling fans worldwide, rejoice and get this book.
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Summary: Not simply a book about wrestling...
Review: I just finished watching a tape of Mick's Japanese Death Match with Terry Funk, and felt inspired to write a review for his spectacular autobiography. It was absolutely amazing to see the matches which Foley recalls with such mixed pain and joy in his book. Foley's tale is that of a man who deserves to be heralded as a hero. Why? Not because he goes out there and gets bloodied up by barbed wire, C4, and god knows what else. But rather because he had the nerve to do it for nothing more than giving something to his fans. The proffesional wrestling business is riddled with politics, backstabbing, and outright callousness(all of which is readily evident at numerous parts of this book). People like Mick Foley make it worth while though. Don't look at this book as a story about wrestling, because while it has a lot of wrestling in it, it really is not. Its a story about a man who does what he does best(which just happens to be wrestling), about how he overcame numerous obstacles in his way to climb to the top of the ladder. A man who gave his all to a business, as his fans, which took far more than it gave.
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Summary: Pro Wrestling Reality Check.
Review: Week after week, he hunger for the violent, insult -laden entertainment of Professional wrestling. For most of us, it provided us with fantasy, testosterone-drenched soap-operaic epics that make the realities of life seem to dissipate. Some of us, take it a bit more seriously, albeit extreme. Mick Foley sacrificed in the name of the "sport" he grew to love so much. He sacrificed his ear, his brain, his skin, his cartiledge and god knows what else. Still people just seem to like him as the lovable "Mankind" complete with "Mr. Socko". That in mind, anyone under 12 should keep that image of Mick Foley perserved. For the rest of us, Foley offers us a glimpse of the Wrestling world-it's heroes and villians, its soaring highs and plumetting lows. Yet he does it in such a brutal, honest way. Capturing happiness in an environment of the kill or be killed. Astonishingly in depth and cohesive, you might think Foley was a former literary major, (he actually was a A/V communications major)but perservers nonetheless. In the end, he gets what he always wanted-recoginition (and money). Remember, while Hulk Hogan was saying his prayerrs and taking his vitamins, Foley was jumping off ring aprons onto his hips, falling from scaffolds and surrounding himself within barbed wire. Foley might've cemented what we always have known-that wrestling matches were fixed, but he convinced us that some of the wrestling acts are not (refer to the King of The Death match chapter, and if you can stomach it, the infamous IWA japanese video of the same title). One must admire a man who sacrificed so much for something he loved so much, it's much more than "putting one over", it's a damn hard technical game and the only way to make it is to become good-and not by muscles or good looks only. Mick writes about the good (Bruiser Brody, a lengthy section on Owen Hart and Steve Austin), the Bad (Ric Flair, Marc Mero and Eric Bishoff and not to be beat-J.J. "F'n" Dillon),the ugly (Deathmatches, Hell in the Cell, ECW wrestling and so forth), and the funny (Abdullah the Butcher, Vader, Diamond Dallas Page, and the hilarious never-ending beration of Al Snow). Foley may not be a literary giant, but he captures the raucous environment that our teens now accept as normal pop culture. He just might have made professional wrestling even respectable. For that alone, God Bless you Mick Foley.
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Summary: DO NOT READ before seeing "Beyond the Mat"
Review: We saw "Beyond the Mat" last night. Mick Foley did such a great job writing "Have A Nice Day" that I felt as though I knew the characters. I felt that Colette and the kids were my friends. I couldn't stand seeing them cry when Mick was in the ring. I am probably the only person in the world who will cry at "Beyond the Mat" but I couldn't watch those people whom Mick had portrayed as flesh and blood human beings. I don't think I realized just how good this book was until I saw a movie with the same people -- and they were familiar. "In that one moment they had somehow become friends. There does not seem much chance of their meeting again in that world or any other. But if they ever do they will rush together with their hands held out." (C.S. Lewis in "The Voyage of the 'Dawn Treader.'" THAT is how well-written this book is. (Can I gush any more?"
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Summary: Having a Nice Day thanks to this book
Review: When I got Have a Nice Day for Christmas, I didn't expect too much from it, maybe a few inside stories, a couple bad jokes. I got the best autobiography I've ever read. Mick Foley is a genuinely funny man, and an excellent writer. (No ghostwriter here, folks.) He shares tales of losing his ear in Germany (with pictures), working his way up the ladder in small independant promotions and taking time to destroy himself in Japan,where he became King of the Japanese Death Match where explosives, barbed wire, thumbtacks, beds of nails, and other dangerous fixtures are easily found. He then recounts his run with the three major wrestling promotions, and finishes right after winning the WWF title for the first time. A truly excellent read, I really couldn't put it down. Buy this book immediately.
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Summary: Have A Nice Day
Review: This book is the best book I've ever read. It starts out when Mick Foley's right ear was torn off, then goes to when he was 17 years old, up until Royal Rumble 1999. Unlike most autobiographies, Mick wrote the book himself, after seeing one ghost writer write a chapter, and hated it. This book has many funny parts in it, like when he made a potato d--k and gave it to the wrong person. This book is a great buy, for die hard wrestling fans, as well as someone who has never heard of a headlock.
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Summary: A Book that will Benefit all of Mankind
Review: Words can not describe how incredible this book is. Obviously you'll enjoy it more if you are a wrestling fan but even non-fans can take a great deal out of this book. Foley wrote it all himself without a ghost writer which gives the book a real personality. I can hear Mick reading it to me as I read it like in the movies. After reading this book you will be amazed at what Mick Foley is all about both in and out of the ring. You will be thrilled for him when you read about his successes after his struggles. You will see how WCW completely missed the boat and how the WWF turned Mick Foley from a cult hero barely making a living to a superstar with a book on the best seller list. Best of all, this book has tons of funny and interesting stories about the behind the scenes action of the wrestling business. Now that Mick is retired, the only way you can enjoy him is through video tapes and this book. My only complaint is that it could have been even longer and more detailed but it is a brutally honest look through Mick Foley's eyes and a MUST read.
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