Wrestling readalikes [was RE: summer reading program request]
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FROM: "Siewert, Karl" <[removed]@tulsalibrary.org>
REC'D: 5/21/02, 8:48 PM
I'm not a wrestling fan, but there seems to be a correlation between my
friends who watch the AFKATWWF (Artist Formerly Known as...) and those who
are serious, lifelong fans of comic books. In both cases, the "action"
takes a backseat to the character development, backstories, and
interconnected plotlines: what Dennis succinctly called the "soap opera"
aspects.
Please take with provided grain of salt [.]
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Karl G. Siewert, MLIS | 250-7307
Business Reference Librarian | [removed]@
Hardesty Regional Library | tulsalibrary
Tulsa City-County Library System | .org
> Subject: RE: summer reading program request
> From: "Dennis Lien" <[removed]@tc.umn.edu>
> Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 16:31:54 -0500
>
> At 10:06 PM 5/17/02 -0400, you wrote:
> >>>(So, what's the fiction "read-a-like" for those who like this
> >particular "certain type of show," <Monday Night RAW from the
> World Wrestling Federation> I wonder....)
> >
> >Dennis Lien >>
> >
> >May I suggest the following?
> >
> >Gotch: An American Hero by Mike Chapman
> >PINS by Jim Provenzano
> >
> >There's tons of non-fiction...and I use the term loosely <g>
> >
> <snip>
>
> Thanks for the nonfiction list, which does include several titles
> I've not encountered. But I *was* specifying fiction, and of the
> two titles listed, GOTCH appears to be a biography of Frank Gotch
> (and hence nonfiction), while PINS is about high school or "real"
> wrestling, which is only a distant cousin of pro rasslin. So
> that's really only about one-half-book's worth of relevant...
>
> Offhand, while I know I've seen one or two other examples, the
> only long fictions I've seen involving professional wrestling
> are Lisa Cody's BUCKET NUT and sequels (mystery/crime fiction
> involving a part-time female wrestler, part-time security guard,
> part-time amateur detective of sorts) and Ed Lee's GOON (a very
> gory, violently sexual, bit of nasty Extreme Horror which (a)
> is only a long novelette, though it appeared as a short book,
> and (b) was published by a small press in a tiny edition just as
> Ed Lee was becoming a cult writer and as a result is already
> impossible to find or afford (and, frankly, isn't worth it).
>
> Just thought of another: one of the "new" Hardy Boys pb
> original series titles from a years back.
>
> Of course, I'm not really looking for advice on finding fiction
> about pro wrestling--my tastes in television and my tastes in
> books don't necessarily overlap much. (For instance, I dislike
> almost without exception all science fiction in movies and
> television, but read it constantly.) And if I did want such,
> I could find it for myself. But I was slightly bemused to
> realize that, given the (now past its peak) spike in interest
> in pro wrestling in recent years that more authors of fiction
> hadn't attempted to jump on the bandwagon. Additionally, I
> was questioning the idea that tastes in television are necessarily
> a presumptive match for tastes in reading. (Not to mention that
> with tv and movies, as with books, specific focus of appeal can
> vary: my fondness for wrestling has much more to do with
> following the ongoing skein of soap opera plots than it does
> with anything athletics-oriented, for instance.)
>
>
> Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // [removed]@tc.umn.edu
>
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