Jeremy Roberts

Dear Dave,
I am contacting you in regards to your biography that I read a little while back. Had your book been an item of food I would have returned it to the place it was purchased and demanded a refund due to it being stale, lifeless and stomach-churning. As it happens my local bookstore refuses refunds, or an exchange, based on the fact that a book is stale, lifeless and stomach-churning. Perhaps the laws regarding food should apply to books also? After all we do digest both.
Standing at show more 6ft 6in tall and being 290lb of muscle, natural or otherwise, you are indeed an impressive looking specimen. The fact that your biography is damn near constant bragging about female sexual conquests isn't so impressive. You claim to be a reformed sex addict but then revel in the fact that you can get beautiful women at the drop of a hat and continue to do so. I wonder who these revelations are aimed at? I know, as a male, I don't wish to keep reading how good looking you are and how easy it is for you to hop from one woman to the other. Is that jealousy on my part...perhaps. I would guess the female audience doesn't appreciate it either as very few women wish to be viewed as pieces of meat that you can conquest at will. I would suggest, Dave, that your abrasive gloating is aimed at yourself and although I am no psychologist I would theorize that although you never have to stroke your manhood yourself you very much have to stroke your own ego to make you feel like a man. Strangely though, for someone who is all too willing to speak about his sexual life, your biography never covered your alleged groping of former WWE diva Shelly Martinez against her wishes or the time you posted nude pics of WWE diva Mickie James all over the locker room to embarrass her. Yet you did give us this wonderful insight into the human you are...

"Now, don't get me wrong, my ex-wife is the love of my life and I would never knowingly hurt her. However, while I was busting my butt on the road like a dog, she would sit around the house and do nothing. I mean, yeah, she had cancer, but she couldn't vacuum? And since the chemo made her "not in the mood", I had no choice but to have threesomes on the road. I mean, she's talented and I hated to see her waste her life like that when she could be a dancer, or maybe a nurse. But she's not a bad person and I take full responsibility for my actions, even though it was her fault."

The only thing that comes close to your sexual bragging is your tendency to mouth off about how tough you are and how many guys you have beaten up outside of the wrestling ring. Being a former bouncer gave you the opportunity to do this and if it can be considered tough for someone 6ft 6in and 290lb to intimidate and brutalize 'normal' sized guys at will then so be it. However, and I don't recall you mentioning this in your biography, when you tried such tactics on fellow wrestler Booker T, a guy who is 6ft 3in and weighs 250lb, in a legitimate backstage confrontation he kicked your ass. Just saying.
Ultimately I found your biography distasteful, shallow and a complete waste of a good tree. If only the paper used in your book had been softer I would have used the pages to wipe my ass with but as it happens at least some good came out of 'Batista unleashed' when I had it recycled.
Sincerely,
BookMarc Blogpants show less

I hated this book.

It now has the distinction of being the first book that I've ever started, that I could not bring myself to finish. Oh GOD, I hated this. If I had anything else on my shelf that I could have picked up to read before my next splurge of reading material, I would have. I probably should have read the phone book.

This man is a grade-A douchebag. He is such an asshole in the first 75 pages that I wanted to punch this book in the face. I've never, EVER, read anything so show more self-centered and offensive in my life. I am a massive, MASSIVE fan of the "sport" of pro-wrestling reading my fair share of autobiographies over the years and I can't say that anything comes CLOSE to being this terrible.

Awful. Just awful. show less

I truly appreciate this book for what it is; a primer to understanding one of the great historical leaders. This book give the reader just enough information about Washington to make him an interesting person without weighing the reader down in facts.

The best part about this book was the succinct description of the Fort Necessity debacle that build Washington's reputation early in his career. History paints a VERY complex portrait of the battle, but this book gets the necessary facts right show more and in order.

My only complaint about this book is there is very little emphasis on "the man" and what inspired him. This book is about the facts of his life, not the times in which he was inspired. When these glimpses are given, they are contrived and shallow ("Because he just knew better!".

The big idea here is to capitalize on the fact that his country was built by flawed men with ideals and that shapes the nation that we live in today. show less

It was good but it was kind of slow in a lot of areas. I think the only reason I finished it is because I LOVE Batista. Normally, if books are this slow and this much of a struggle, I wouldn't finish it...Its rare that I do unless there is something just drawing me in & keeps me reading...Thats how this book was for me...plus, like I said, I L O V E Batista & WWE..