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dantastic's review against another edition
3.0
Adam Copeland on Edge is the story of WWE wrestler Edge.
I was never that into Edge when I was a wrestling fan but I needed something to read at my desk during slow times. Yeah, I'm a sucker for $3.99 wrestling biographies.
Adam Copeland on Edge was a little slow in the early goings. Call me heartless but I don't really care enough about a wrestler's life pre-wrestling to spend 20% of a biography reading about it. Anyway, young Adam won an essay contest and got his wrestling training for free.
From there, things picked up. Edge had some great road stories from his early days, like driving across frozen lakes to get to the next town in remote parts of the Canadian wilderness, and waking up with Rhyno spooning him on one occasion. After some ill-advised bookings, he finally got noticed by the WWE.
His WWE career up to that point was given the bulk of the attention. His many injuries were talked about, as well as his many ladder matches with the Hardy Boys and/or the Dudleys. It was interesting but not fantastic. I actually thought his indy career stories were more interesting. The book ended kind of abruptly, right around the time of his comeback in 2004.
The writing was notches above the usual fare for a wrestling book, especially one written by an actual wrestler. I think my main gripe with it is that he wrote it so early in his career. There just wasn't enough interesting material to fill a whole book. Ten, or even five, years later and the book would have been that much richer.
All things considered, it's a slightly above average wrestling book. Three out of five stars. I think I'm done with cheap wrestling books for a while.
I was never that into Edge when I was a wrestling fan but I needed something to read at my desk during slow times. Yeah, I'm a sucker for $3.99 wrestling biographies.
Adam Copeland on Edge was a little slow in the early goings. Call me heartless but I don't really care enough about a wrestler's life pre-wrestling to spend 20% of a biography reading about it. Anyway, young Adam won an essay contest and got his wrestling training for free.
From there, things picked up. Edge had some great road stories from his early days, like driving across frozen lakes to get to the next town in remote parts of the Canadian wilderness, and waking up with Rhyno spooning him on one occasion. After some ill-advised bookings, he finally got noticed by the WWE.
His WWE career up to that point was given the bulk of the attention. His many injuries were talked about, as well as his many ladder matches with the Hardy Boys and/or the Dudleys. It was interesting but not fantastic. I actually thought his indy career stories were more interesting. The book ended kind of abruptly, right around the time of his comeback in 2004.
The writing was notches above the usual fare for a wrestling book, especially one written by an actual wrestler. I think my main gripe with it is that he wrote it so early in his career. There just wasn't enough interesting material to fill a whole book. Ten, or even five, years later and the book would have been that much richer.
All things considered, it's a slightly above average wrestling book. Three out of five stars. I think I'm done with cheap wrestling books for a while.
rawly's review against another edition
4.0
I have been waiting a long time to read this book. I'm a big borrow from the library type of guy and mine unfortunately didn't carry, I just recently was able to get my hands on a copy.
I'm a big wrestling fan and I found it amusing where this book ends seeing as Edge has had an incredible career, hell he is even main eventing WrestleMania this year(2021) for the title!
Overall a good easy fast read.
I'm a big wrestling fan and I found it amusing where this book ends seeing as Edge has had an incredible career, hell he is even main eventing WrestleMania this year(2021) for the title!
Overall a good easy fast read.
bigtomlaff's review
funny
relaxing
medium-paced
3.5
This is a cool autobiography and gives a nice insight into the life of Edge, and of course if that's all you're interested in then it's definitely worth the read, but after the amazing level of detail in other wrestling biographies this one just seems to fall short of the mark. The narrative is a bit lazy and it doesn't have that voice that is so present in the other great wrestling books.
manda_reads's review against another edition
4.0
4.25 stars I love reading books written by professional wrestlers. Each book is unique in its own way Adam Copeland on Edge is no different I really liked it. The book is a bit dated but nonetheless it had some good content.
shinychick's review
3.0
A good look into a WWE wrestler's life, injuries and all. Bad editing, but I'm guessing it's because back in 2004 (Jeeze, 10 frickin years ago!) this was one of only a few licensed, written by the wrestler books out there (along with Mick Foley,) so they weren't exactly spending the big bucks on grammar nazis. Also helpful would have been a glossary of backstage wrestling terms like 'going over,' 'gigging,' and 'pie-faced.' I knew some, but not all, and there aren't context clues for a lot of them.
That said, I find edge to be an interesting, everyday kind of guy, and so I enjoyed reading this account from start to middle of his career. I look forward to a sequel that covers the last ten years, and updates some stories - including how he ended up going into acting. (that's actually why I picked this book up now; I love him on Haven.)
That said, I find edge to be an interesting, everyday kind of guy, and so I enjoyed reading this account from start to middle of his career. I look forward to a sequel that covers the last ten years, and updates some stories - including how he ended up going into acting. (that's actually why I picked this book up now; I love him on Haven.)