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| Have A Nice Day: A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks | 
 enlarge | Authors: Mick Foley, Mankind, Wwf
Publisher: HarperEntertainment
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (687 reviews)
Sales Rank: 216010
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 768
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 4.2 x 1.7
ISBN: 0061031011
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.812092
EAN: 9780061031014
ASIN: 0061031011
Publication Date: October 1, 2000
Release Date: October 3, 2000
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Cactus Jack is one tough cookie March 11, 2007
I have to admit that I hesitated buying a book by a wrestler. When I got it and it was 700+ pages long, I started to not even bother, knowing that I would never read it. I was wrong. I started reading. The first chapter discusses the loss of Mick's ear (not kayfaybe). Then the incredible desire to achieve something...Mick wanted to be a wrestler. He lived in a car on the weekends during college; ate peanut butter out of jar; worked his way up while making only a small bit of money. I was astonished at the matches with Terry Funk in Japan. You know, we all know "rasslin" is fake! Yet, this book put everything in a different perspective for me. It's very real in many ways and very very dangerous with barbed wire matches, exploding ring devices and real Big Van Vader Powerbombs on the concrete floor. I have to ask how Mick Foley is even alive. It seems the only thing fake about wrestling is that the outcomes are pre-decided and the storylines are essentially scripted. I finished the book in less than two weeks. Mick, your life story encourages everyone to pursue their dreams!
what a book! March 8, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
If Foley ever falls out of favor with the WWE, he need not worry. He can always make a living as an author.
The book is simply brilliant; well-written, extremely funny at times, and at most times, you'll read the book with a smile on your face anyway. It's captivating, and it almost feels like you're tagging along with Mick all the way. He's a lot more sensitive and careful than you would take him for.
Captivating read, and definately recommended, even for non-wrestling fans.
Tour De Force February 2, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is truly one of the greats in english literature. Melville, Dickens, Poe, Updyke, Foley.
They should really make a movie out of this book December 30, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have mentioned before that this story reads like a modern day Rocky film, the story of the ultimate under dog, who ends up winning the world heavyweight championship in the end, but there is so much more to this story. There is romance, even funny romance, it has everything you could ever ask for in a movie, and I believe if they were to make the movie towards this book it would be a huge hit. Think about it, if it was able to be a new york times number one bestseller, who is to say that this will not be a blockbuster hit, a movie of this book just has to be made. From his dreams of becoming a professional wrestler, to his hitch hiking across the country to see Superfly Jimmy Snucka take on Don Marocko, in a steal cage. To the beginning of his carrer his match with the great Dynamite Kid on nation wide television, towards his debute in the W.C.W towards the E.C.W towards his eventual debute in the World Wrestling Federation, his one day protest walk out during the Montreal Screw Job, to his Hell in the Cell with the Undertaker, there is so much to talk about in regards to his book. It is humourous if not touching, it is a great story to be told
Unbelievably Great Read December 21, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I would have to say that Have a Nice Day is probally the best book based on wrestling that I have ever read, I also read Foley is Good which was not nearly as great. Have a Nice Day reads like a modern day Rocky film, and they should really make a movie based on this book. Mick Foley actually did write a screen play to this book but he did not think it was that great and he threw it a way in frusteration, in any rate Have a Nice Day was unbelievable and good fun I highly recommend it
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