Of all the wrestling biographies I've read, I didn't like this one as much as the others.For a man as traveled as Dusty Rhodes, I thought he still left a lot to be desired.
There were a lot of things that I thought he could have elaborated on for somebody who wasn't alive during the time period in which he was at the top of his game. He would mention that he made a lot of money with so-and-so because he was the biggest babyface and they were the biggest heel, but he didn't talk about the stories leading into the matches.
Dusty isn't a writer, so he can't take all the blame, but ghostwriter Howard Brody should've been able to do a better job.
The writing and the absence of depth aside, imagining, if you weeeell, Dusty reading this word for word it is pretty entertaining. He does get into a few stories. Two notable things that made me laugh were him walking around the locker room naked and analogizing the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor to the Dusty Finish.
To put it into one sentence really, Dusty has seen and done a lot, but the images in his mind didn't make it to paper very well.
My suggestion would be to watch the DVD that WWE produced when he came to work for them as an agent. It misses a few of the more colorful Dusty stories, but makes up for it with the footage WWE owns.
Dusty: Reflections of an American Dream at Amazon
PS - After I get through most of the matches and the promos, I'll review the Dusty Rhodes DVD.
