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Dusty
- Reflections of Wrestling's American Dream
- Narrated by: Kerry Woodrow
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
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Summary
There has been much said about Dusty Rhodes, the 'American Dream', over the years by both his fans and peers. Aside from the frequent fictional prose penned by wrestling magazine journalists and internet smart marks that run rumor-mill websites, however, there has not been much written about him. Until now.
With the exception of a select few, there has been no bigger name or personality in the annals of pro wrestling history than Dusty Rhodes. Of those few, none of them can claim the compelling back story Rhodes shares in Dusty: Reflections of an American Dream of an industry plagued with political loyalties and disloyalties, greedy promoters, manipulative bookers, destructive personalities, multi-millionaires, and great leaders. Behind the "million-dollar smile" and the million dollar gate receipts is a man with a story to tell - not just of tall tales, yarns, and fabrications, but of a life filled with aspirations, dreams, disappointments, challenges, controversies, angst, conflict, success, and reflection.
Dusty: Reflections of an American Dream is the story of a transformation from mediocrity to superstardom. It is the story of how the boy Virgil Runnels Jr. became the man Dusty Rhodes and truly lived the 'American Dream'. This is his story.
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Virgil Riley Runnels, Jr,. is a wrestler (and former journalist) better known as Dusty Rhodes, "The American Dream". Dusty, written with Howard Brody, is the story of a man whose dreams have come true through a larger-than-life career.
In chatty, expletive-laden prose, Rhodes takes the listener from his first wrestling match to the heights of the sport, and includes accounts of his friendships with other famous wrestlers like Andre the Giant and his rival Ric Flair.
Kerry Woodrow tells Rhodes’ story with a deep southern drawl and a conversational tone.
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- Thatoneguyinthebeanie
- 19-03-23
Great listen
As a dusty fan it was a great insight into the history of him not wonky as a character but as a person in general
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- Mr. A. Rathbone
- 04-11-22
Great but..
The stories are great and enjoyable, the narrator was annoying, mispronouncing so many of the wrestlers names.
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- michelle weller
- 18-02-22
love it
it shows dusty as you would expect. i still love the american dream and im glad.
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- Karl Carter
- 15-03-24
ignore the hate great story and history
had this one in conjunction with the Terry Funk autobiography. read them one after another and seeing the interaction between them was part of the charm but great book. really funny in places and just great overall experience. interesting to hear how the bit about Dustin and the Goldust angle went down having read about that from Dustin's perspective in his book.
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- Gary C.
- 08-03-22
Only one dusty rhodes
A true man's man.. A family man a superstar.
Very well put together.. Easy listening at its best.
Just like you was in the room with the man your self.
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- Benjamin
- 02-09-23
Mixed bag
The guy doing the voiceover doesn’t know how to pronounce a lot of the names and delivers Dusty without the bounce of his real voice. He’s got a souther swagger that means the words don’t carry as well as they could.
The book starts strong, then it seems like Dusty realises he has 10000 words left to write and starts ramming in any old stuff that comes to mind.
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- Martin
- 02-09-18
enjoyed it
Really enjoyed it but the narrator really butchered the names of the legends of wrestling
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- ben1981
- 14-04-24
Dusty
Good book but narrator has never seen wrestling and can’t pronounce anyone’s name properly. Some good road stories tho
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- Amazon Customer
- 25-08-21
Disappointment here
poor narration and pronunciation
story was repetitive and self serving
wouldn't recommend to anyone except a completist. It became irritating and i deleted from my phone
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- Anonymous User
- 19-10-21
the dream
loved the book, shame that the narrator got some of the names of people wrong, other than that it was a great listen, it also makes you appreciate those old school superstars and what they went through also talking about family life.
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