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Cross Rhodes: Goldust, Out Of The Darkness (2010)

by Dustin Rhodes(Favorite Author)

3.36 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1439195161 (ISBN13: 9781439195161)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

World Wrestling Entertainment

review 1: Starting with the negatives, the biggest flaw here is that this book reads like a rush-job, and I found myself skimming parts here and there because it was very clear where the story was going and there wasn't much purpose in reading closely. There isn't a lot of content; the print is double-spaced and about 16 point font, and every 5th page is a photo, and the thing still clocks in at only about 200 pages. Wrestling is homoerotic and homophobic, whether or not most of the industry or the fans care to recognize it. Goldust's work illuminated/exploited these aspects of the artform in inventive and interesting ways, but there seems to be little introspection going on about that. OK, fine, this thing wasn't ghostwritten by Camille Paglia, but shit, Dustin is a good ol' ... moreboy from Texas, you'd think there might be a little more elaboration on how he dealt with becoming famous for being a taboo-smashing pan-sexual weirdo, but, as another reviewer mentioned, the prose is really really vague. It's almost as if he wasn't paying attention during the most important parts of his career and/or wasn't paying attention when this was written.This book has a few things going for it, though, and it's a quick enough read to make it worth your while if you're a big Goldust fan. I also enjoyed that the book offers some insights about the famous Rhodes family itself from the elder son's perspective. Finally--and I don't think this is a spoiler--the title implies that Rhodes found religion or something and luckily this isn't really a part of the narrative arc, which follows the more traditional addiction-memoir format.As an official WWE bio, it conforms to most of the conventions of the company's Soviet-style party line and I'm sure plenty of stuff is being left out or spun a little differently than it actually shook out, but I personally find that the WWE doublespeak makes these books more interesting anyway, so this isn't really too much of a negative, just something that should be mentioned.
review 2: Mein erstes englisches Wrestlingbuch. Warum wurde es gerade Goldust? Weil Goldust einer der genialsten Charaktere ist, die es jemals im Wrestling gegeben hat. Er ist der Prince of Perversion und unter dem gold schwarzen MakeUp wirkt er wie ein sehr netter Mensch.Ein großer Teil des Buches ist Dustins Bedauern und seine Drogenerfahrung. Ich weiß das einige Leser dieses “Gejammer” nervt. Es kann schon sehr anstrengend sein, aber sein Leben ist nun einmal so verlaufen. Es tut ihm jetzt leid, außerdem finde ich gut, das er immer wieder anspricht was für Probleme er hatte.Seine Geschichte hat mich gefangen genommen und ich konnte das Buch nicht zur Seite legen. Ich mochte den Sprachstil, es ist einfaches englisch und auch wenn es vermessen ist zu glauben das dieses Buch Dustin Rhodes komplett alleine geschrieben hat, man kann es zumindest glauben… darum geht es doch auch im Wrestling. Man weiß, es ist abgesprochen und alles… aber wie die Jungs im Ring sich bemühen, man möchte es ihnen einfach glauben!Fazit:Eine sehr offene Biographie über den Mann hinter dem goldenen Anzug! Ich geben ihm und seiner Lebensgeschichte gerne die Note A! less

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