Dungeon of Death

I learned a lot of new things about many of the great wrestlers. A very well written book. One of the best on wrestling history.

I actually enjoyed this book and am surprised at the number of one-star reviews. I think there are people reviewing here that just don't want to hear the truth. The first 2/3 of the book deal with a sort of "Hart curse" that is interesting and informative. The last 1/3 does break down into a list of unrelated deaths and short recaps of careers, but the author makes his point that the wrestling business produces a shocking death rate. As far as the book being "on the level of a high school book report" I think that assertion is insane. This is a good author taking on a decidedly broad and sometimes depressing subject. I found it informative and entertaining.

This book is mainly opinions most of the facts in this book is common knowledge if your a wrestling fan of the Monday night wars Era it goes in to how many wrestlers passed of abusing drugs or accident then goes on a steroids rant it's OK to check out but there's nothing in here that ain't already been said

This book is not focus on one wrestler in this book covers 15 to 20 wrestlers that all had bad careers or died early who all went through the Hart dungeon very interesting read if you like wrestlers of the 80s and 90s as opposed to the days wrestlers

Scott Keith has made his name from being a sarcastic reviewer of wrestling (and funny - he is very funny). But this book lacks that, and with good reason. The subject matter is just such a downer. And yet he managed to make it readable. For a better review, go to Inside Pulse (and apologies for the formatting issues; this was written before Pulse changed over to a new system): http://wrestling.insidepulse.com/2011/08/15/the-view-from-down-here-%e2%80%93-book-review-%e2%80%98dungeon-of-death-chris-benoit-and-the-hart-family-curse%e2%80%99-by-scott-keith/

So, the book is not horrible, but it was misleading. Benoit is the whole cover, and in small print it says something about the Hart Curse. Well, Benoit is barely even mentioned in this book, save for the first couple of relatively short chapters. Why? Why did he use Benoit to sell his book? While not a terrible book, I for one would not have bought it if I knew it was not about Benoit, or at least mostly about him. Bad business to exploit someone's image and then not even add anything to the story.

Promo delivery. Totally satisfied.

Someone remarked that reading Scott Keith is like reading a poorly written High School book report by someone who was better at shop class than English. That person hit it right on the head. This is such a poorly written piece of work. Scott simply can't write well. He mismashes styles to the point where you can tell he's painfully trying to write something, anything, that's remotely passable--and fails miserably. When I opened up the book and read page one, I knew this was going to be a bad read. Scott places himself in the first person...then the third person...then as a casual fan. This ridiculous approach is the kind of thing I used to see when I tutored students who didn't have a firm grasp on writing well. It's disturbing to know that there are publishers and editors out there who actually thought this is a decent body of work ready for the public. By the same token, people remarked how Scott blatantly lifted from other sources and I must say he took a lot...and I mean virtually cutting and pasting huge chunks of texts from "Pure Dynamite." It's kind of pathetic to lazily take another writer's work product--his hard earned time and money--and pass it off as your own. Scott does this and its pretty evident from just the first few pages. If you don't believe me, just take a look for yourself. I just don't think this is worthy of any kind of purchase. I think this might be worth 50 Cents at most. It's just very, very bad. I can't stress that enough. I feel compelled to ask him directly for either an apology or a refund.