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Title: In the Pit with Piper: Roddy Gets Rowdy by Robert Picarello, Rowdy" Roddy Piper ISBN: 0425187217 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: November, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.24
Rating: 5
Summary: Piper Tells It Like It Is and Doesn't Have Any Regrets!
Comment: To start I loved this book and could not put it down! I rarely read books but this one just clicked with me.
Roderick Toombs takes you back to the infancy of professional wrestling when it wasn't [poop] like it has become today. He let's you understand how hard it is to make friends outside the business and how impossible it is to keep them inside Roddy and his wife Kitty made a discorvery about wrestling and they dubbed it "the sickness" which you can read about in chapter 12. I believe their theory to be 100% true. His stories about ribbing on the square and the ruthless P's and everything inbetween are rather explicit and entertaining to read. None the less scary to think about happening to yourself. I have always overlooked Mr. Piper. I am 17 and my room is filled with loads of wrestling stuff, and only one Rowdy Roddy Piper item his book In The Pit With Piper. Piper's one item is the one thing that changed my most recent thought's about pro wrestling the most and also about wanting to become a wrestler, I will add though I still have the desire in me to become one and help change wrestling back to the former existence. His book will take you on a journey and make you realize the pain that every wrestler has to endure. His book also let's you know how serious things can get behind the curtains. I will tell you one thing a wrestlers life isn't as grand as you may think. Also never ask Mr. Piper if wrestling is fake...
R.I.P
Frat Brothers
Piper has 33 years under his belt and 33 beloved frat brothers resting in peace.
Rating: 5
Summary: This book is the Real Deal!
Comment: "In the Pit with Piper" is probably one, if not the best wrestling autobiography ever written. In this day and age of "ghost writing", it's hard to find a decent wrestling biography that is actually written by the real wrestlers. Books like "The Rock Says" and "It's True, It's True" are clear examples of ghost writing, in other words, stories that are not written by the wrestlers as indicated on the title page but actually written by authors that may have never even met the wrestlers but just go by a 10 minute voice recording done by the wrestler about his or her life.
That's where this book is set apart from all the others, you can tell that Roddy Piper actually sat down with an author and told the author word by word what to write.
The book is about "Rowdy" Roddy Piper, who is a famous pro wrestler from the 1980s(and is still popular today). This book spans his life from age 15 running away from home until the final days of WCW. In this book, he talks all about the "Sickness" that goes on in wrestling when the promoters back in his day used manipulation on wrestlers and how hard business was back then. I strongly suggest this book to any fan of pro wrestling or just a person trying to find a great read
Rating: 3
Summary: An entertaining, if somewhat overblown read
Comment: I USED to have all the respect in the world for Roddy Piper. That is, until I read this book. Whether or not the various anecdotes to be found within are true, false, honest or embellished upon is immaterial when you consider the sheer egotism of the man behind the pen.
If 'In The Pit With Piper' is taken seriously, then it must be wholly believed that Roddy Piper - and not Vince McMahon, Hulk Hogan, nor any other number of wrestling luminaries - was solely responsible for the wrestling boom in the eighties, and that he's the only man in the business with enough clout and experience to save it today.
Roddy Piper is perhaps the last of the true old-school veterans; the ones who refused to move with the times. This book exposes Piper as a selfish anachronism of a man; trying to make waves in a pool that's outgrown him beyond his own scope and expectations.
Perhaps Piper could be viewed in a more sympathetic light if someone else had dug up the dirt and splayed Piper's attitudes and opinions all over the pages of this book. But as the words, revelations and ego all belong to Piper himself, it's hard to feel sorry for what he has become.
The actual content is interesting enough, with Piper's life covered in close detail from his childhood streetlife to the professional void that he was trapped in at the time of the book's completion - some time before his failed attempt at a WWE revival. Naturally, he'll blame Vince McMahon for that, too.
Overall? A fair read with some interesting stories spoiled only by the arrogance of the man telling the tale, and not a patch on Mick Foley's fair and honest account of how pro wrestling really is. Piper's mistrust and paranoid point of view sours what could have been a memorable reading experience
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Title: Bobby the Brain: Wrestling's Bad Boy Tells All by Bobby Heenan, Steve Anderson ISBN: 1572434651 Publisher: Triumph Books Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Legends of Wrestling: "Classy" Freddie Blassie by Keith Elliot Greenberg, Fred Blassie ISBN: 0743463161 Publisher: Pocket Star Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: It's Good to Be the King...Sometimes by Jerry Lawler ISBN: 0743457676 Publisher: WWE Pub. Date: 17 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Sex, Lies, and Headlocks: The Real Story of Vince McMahon and the World Wrestling Federation by Shaun Assael, Mike Mooneyham ISBN: 0609606905 Publisher: Crown Publishing Group Pub. Date: 16 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Hollywood Hulk Hogan by Hulk Hogan ISBN: 0743456904 Publisher: WWE Pub. Date: 19 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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