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| Original Title: | Mankind: Have a Nice Day! A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks |
| ISBN: | 0061031011 (ISBN13: 9780061031014) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Mick Foley
Paperback | Pages: 768 pages Rating: 4.33 | 7281 Users | 348 Reviews
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| Title | : | Have a Nice Day!: A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks |
| Author | : | Mick Foley |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 768 pages |
| Published | : | October 3rd 2000 by HarperEntertainment (first published 1999) |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Biography. Sports. Autobiography |
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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.Rating Based On Books Have a Nice Day!: A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks
Ratings: 4.33 From 7281 Users | 348 ReviewsRate Based On Books Have a Nice Day!: A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks
Chronicling his life and career, HAVE A NICE DAY (a Number One Bestseller in the states, no less) takes us through until what was to be his retirement match, in the year 2000. Well, I say that but he returned a few times over the next ten years or so. And is still an intermittent presence in a non-wrestling capacity. Mick Foley was a pioneer of the hardcore style of wrestling. Matches that employed barbed wire, tables rigged with C4 and most things that are breakable. He was instrumental inWhen I was about 11 or 12 most of the lads in my class were really big into professional wrestling. This mostly consisted of dropping piledrivers, powerbombs and inverted neckbreakers on each other. When I wasn't opening up a can of whoop-ass on my frineds I also watched the shows, read a couple of autobiographies and even learned the terminology. Example: 'The face beat the heel in order to get over'. If you don't understand that, you're a 'mark'. Sorry. (Incidentally there's a pretty big
Mick Foleys Have a Nice Day! A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks may have spurned an unfortunate number of wrestler-penned autobiographies (that I will never read), but its a good and amusing enough read that I understand why the trend (and Foleys writing careermore books that I will never read) got rolling. Mick Foley is that crazy wrestler. Not the one who puts up his hands to logically shield his head for a bump. Not the one who takes what could be a dangerous fall onto what ends up being a
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. However, I can't strongly recommend it to anyone who isn't a wrestling fan. Foley has a great story to tell and has a wonderful sense of humor, but his stories of dealing with various wrestling personalities (Harley Race, the Dynamite Kid, Paul E. Dangerously, etc.) in every major promotion of the 90s will mean a lot more if the reader is familiar with these characters prior to picking up the book. In other words, it's extremely fascinating to read about the
Mick Foley is far smarter than you'd expect for a guy who's known for taking beatings. Wrestlers must tell stories by their actions in the ring, but he can actually maintain my interest in book form, and for the whole book. He's had a lot of interesting experiences, and he has a great imagination. I"m looking forward to reading his novels.
Mick Foley is far smarter than you'd expect for a guy who's known for taking beatings. Wrestlers must tell stories by their actions in the ring, but he can actually maintain my interest in book form, and for the whole book. He's had a lot of interesting experiences, and he has a great imagination. I"m looking forward to reading his novels.
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