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In Mick 'Mankind' Foley's book, he relates an anecdote about a fellow professional wrestler who was a recreational drug user telling him that whatever city in the US you happened to be in, MLK was always the easiest place to score drugs.



The world at large can't accuse of XPT of being ill-versed in quality literature...





Well, if my graduate and post-graduate studies of English literature have taught me anything, it's how to recognise good writing when I see it, and though it might irk you to hear it, Mick Foley wrote a very good book (the second one not so much, but not bad either). Unlike his contemporaries, he actually wrote it himself without the use of a ghost writer.

Seriously, see if you can pick it up at your local library and give it a try...I bought the hardback to read on the plane a couple of days before my first flight to America, and suffice to say I found it so unputdownable that it never made it onto the plane.

I'm not going to pretend it's the be all and end all of the printed word (hell, I unloaded my copy on Ebay many, many moons ago), but it's certainly a very good and completely unedifying portrait of the wrestling biz in general from a guy who's pretty much been there and done that at all levels of the game.