Customer Reviews

The WrestleCrap Book of Lists! (WrestleCrap series)

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The boys over at Wrestlecrap.com have gone through their database, collect and organized many of the worst ideas, characters, and storylines throughout wrestling history to form the WrestleCrap Book of Lists. If you visit the website, you know what it is all about, this book simply organized many of those dreaded concepts and people into an easy to read and pretty darn hilarious format. I'm not going to compile their lists, you'll just have to trust they all fit and are very funny. You'll disagree on some things but mostly, it's pretty dang close to what we all feel. Some 'facts' of stories may not be entirely accurate (such as around pg 42, The guys say Zybysko blackmailed Dusty with the Baby Doll photos, memory tells me it was Tully Blanchard {Baby Doll was Tully's valet} but well, they have the video library and I don't). There's a good bunch of photos but the best is page 106.

My only beef with the book is that the lists are really pretty oddly numbered. It's not standard Top 10 style but anywhere from a List of 25 to 1. Really guys, 1 entry is not a List. Many stayed in that 7 items range and I would have liked to have had a consistent Top 10 or 15 items per list. Minimum of 5 items in a short list.

You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll say "WTF were they thinking?". Read it, enjoy it, and laugh at how stupid wrestling can be. Great job guys.

I got this book opened to a random page and read it. I loved it right away. The writers have a way of writing stuff that is funny but true at the same time. While I dont know there next plan for a book will be, I cant wait to read it. Excellent book and a great companion piece to WrestleCrap: The Very Worst of Pro Wrestling. If you enjoy wrestling books that are honest and not penned by WWE wrestlers or Scott Keith, then this book is for you.

Well, let's start by saying that I loved Wrestlecrap's first 2 books. The Death of WCW was one of the most comprehensive, detailed accounts of the meteoric rise and subsequent death of a wrestling company that should have NEVER died.

That being said, this book was a HUGE dissapointment. The thought of a book of lists involving the worst pro wrestling had to offer sounded like tons of fun. Unfortunately, the book is not. It appeared to me, as a previous review pointed out, that most of book seemed like filler. And that filler was neither funny nor clever.

Skip this one. Cross your fingers. Wait for the next one.

I loved his other book, "The Death of WCW", so naturally I picked this one up. I'm 75% finished with it and it eveything I expected: funny, insightful, and detailed. Every wrestling fan should have this book! Highly recommended!

I had picked up the previous WrestleCrap books, and am a frequest visitor of the website. The death of WCW book was, in my opinion, one of the most interesting and worthwhile books on wrestling available. Informative, detailed, and well written, it was a thorough analysis of the failure of WCW.

This book, however, is quite the opposite. Of course it is not meant to be a serious book, it is meant to be humorous, but even the humor is rare.

What particularly struck me was the vulgarity (particularly references to female body parts), which seemed completely unnecessary. Though some of the lists were funny (the best mullets list in particular) many of them seemed like filler, others were just infantile and disturbing (though wrestling is often infantile - not to mention disturbing - so maybe I shouldn't be surprised)

Also many things in the book, though likely meant to be humorous, come off as being harsh and mean-spirited.

Probably best to avoid this book.

As most reviewers have mentioned, there is little in this book that hasn't been written elsewhere, either online or in print. When reading any book which is essentially a re-telling of history (in this case the history of WCW) the writer(s) will likely have some bias even prior to their writing on the subject. For me, that was too obviously the case here. I won't even necessarily disagree with the ultimate conclusions of the book but the sarcastic and smarmy way in which they were presented left me cold. Also, while I read at least one poster who praised the book for its accuracy, I was struck by many incorrect facts and citing of data. All in all not awful, but my caveat would be to read it with a "grain of salt".

WrestleCrap Book of lists is the best book by RD Reynolds yet! It is better than previous books such as WrestleCrap & Death of WCW. This book is great bathroom reading. You can pick it up bring it in the can with you... read one list and then go back to what you were doing before nature called. This is also a great book for people who don't have enough time to sit down for a hour and read. You can find five minutes here & there trough out your day and get through a list or two. Extremely informative and very funny, one of my favorite books.

This is the third of RD Reynolds' books that I've read. It's a different type of read than either Wrestlecrap or the Death of WCW (a fantastic account), as it meanders (in a good way) through a narrative filled with different lists. I enjoyed many of the factual lists, looking back at wrestling's worst gimmicks, storylines, etc., but found the "creative aspects" - i.e. "Fantasy" lists compiled by Reynolds and Braxton of things that didn't really happen, but what "would" have been good or bad - quite distracting. Mixed in, they watered down the humorous atrocities that actually happened, because the reader finds himself inadvertently comparing their outlandish nature to those that actually happened. That being said, I did enjoy the trip down memory lane, but thought that if the authors had stuck to a historical aspect instead of fantasy booking/creating angles, it would have been a stronger read.

Very funny insight into the world of pro-wrestling, and as advised don't read it through - try to read it a step by step as to really enjoy the fun. Recommended for most avid pro-wrestling fans out there.

This is another great book by the Wrestlecrap people. i hope they keep making these books highlighting the very worst of prowrestling