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Dusty

By: Dusty Rhodes, Howard Brody
Narrated by: Kerry Woodrow
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Editor reviews

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.

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.

©2005, 2006, 2012 Dusty Rhodes and Howard Brody (P)2012 Audible, Inc.

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enjoyed it

Really enjoyed it but the narrator really butchered the names of the legends of wrestling

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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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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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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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Great but..

The stories are great and enjoyable, the narrator was annoying, mispronouncing so many of the wrestlers names.

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Nobody tells a story like Dusty

Great trip down memory lane, the stories told and Dustys take on them kept me hooked from beginning to end. Must listen for any wrestling fan.

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Cure for Insomnia!

Story is boring AF! Narrator also mispronounces names alot, most of which you can't decipher exactly Who he's talking about.
Not many pauses or gaps between sentences/paragraphs either, it's like one continuous sentence... which also ruins it, but the story itself is really bad & is mostly made up of comments that others have made on a specific event or Dusty himself.
I was hoping to get some good stories from this... but was feeling very disappointed!!

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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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love it

it shows dusty as you would expect. i still love the american dream and im glad.

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Ruined by Narrator

Great story ruined by poor narration. Kerry Woodrow needs to learn how to pronounce some really famous names and his impression of Harley Race was embarrassing, he gave him a high pitched voice!!

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