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Storm Warning
A collection of stories written by Lance Storm for his official website StormWrestling.com. The Compilation covers his first commentary in Nov. 1999 thru the commentary he wrote after the very last WCW Monday Nitro March 27, 2001. Introductions, reflections, as well as photos, and personal documents have been added to make this a unique never seen before collection. 64,000 words
244 pages, Kindle Edition
First published August 19, 2011
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October 14, 2012
Lance Evers (Storm) was one of the first professional wrestlers to have his own weekly blog independent of any organization he had been performing for. He would often either write about his day to day experiences in the industry or he would travel back in time and tell stories about breaking into the business.
Collected within this Amazon Kindle exclusive e-book, Lance selected what he felt were his best commentaries posted between 1999 and 2001 when he worked for both ECW (Extreme Championship Wrestling) and WCW (World Championship Wrestling).
Where Storm Front succeeds over other wrestling books is that it does not suffer from revisionist history. Given how ECW and WCW ended up (both folded in early 2001), it would be easy for a performer to look back and give all these reasons why the writing was on the wall concerning both promotions' ultimate failure. Lance gave us what his straightforward thoughts were at the time of his employment and seemed like a pretty content guy within both organizations.
As you work your way into the book, you can really see the progression of Lance as a writer. Some of the earlier installments were a little rough and paced oddly. Slowly but surely, Lance found his way by letting his sense of humor shine through. There were more than a few occasions where I laughed out loud! .
I had to deduct a star because it really could have benefited from a proof reader. There are a lot of spelling errors and incorrect usage of words that hadn't been detected by the spell checker. While that may sound like a downer, the stories within here are still pretty great. Being a fan of pro wrestling as long as I have (approx. 22 years), I can't get enough of the behind the scenes stuff. Reading about wrestling "ribs" (backstage pranks) will always make me happy.
*I also wanted to note that this was the first book I've read on my Blackberry Playbook. While I still prefer my e-ink Kobo Wi-Fi for e-books, the option to switch to a black background with white writing was really nice. I found reading with a backlit white screen burned my eyes out quicker than usual.
Collected within this Amazon Kindle exclusive e-book, Lance selected what he felt were his best commentaries posted between 1999 and 2001 when he worked for both ECW (Extreme Championship Wrestling) and WCW (World Championship Wrestling).
Where Storm Front succeeds over other wrestling books is that it does not suffer from revisionist history. Given how ECW and WCW ended up (both folded in early 2001), it would be easy for a performer to look back and give all these reasons why the writing was on the wall concerning both promotions' ultimate failure. Lance gave us what his straightforward thoughts were at the time of his employment and seemed like a pretty content guy within both organizations.
As you work your way into the book, you can really see the progression of Lance as a writer. Some of the earlier installments were a little rough and paced oddly. Slowly but surely, Lance found his way by letting his sense of humor shine through. There were more than a few occasions where I laughed out loud! .
I had to deduct a star because it really could have benefited from a proof reader. There are a lot of spelling errors and incorrect usage of words that hadn't been detected by the spell checker. While that may sound like a downer, the stories within here are still pretty great. Being a fan of pro wrestling as long as I have (approx. 22 years), I can't get enough of the behind the scenes stuff. Reading about wrestling "ribs" (backstage pranks) will always make me happy.
*I also wanted to note that this was the first book I've read on my Blackberry Playbook. While I still prefer my e-ink Kobo Wi-Fi for e-books, the option to switch to a black background with white writing was really nice. I found reading with a backlit white screen burned my eyes out quicker than usual.
April 11, 2012
Storm Warning collects the best of the first two years worth of commentaries from pro wrester Lance Storm's website.
The collection starts with his first commentary (amusingly about a match between Jericho and Chyna) and goes through the last WCW Nitro. Introductions have been added before most of the pieces to give a little bit of perspective, and there are photos added in throughout.
I've been following Lance's commentaries on StormWrestling.com for a few years now and was curious to read material from before he retired. He has a clear writing style and is a good storyteller. The commentaries here are as often about the large amounts of traveling required in his profession as they are about matches and wrestling specifics. There is a lot of humor in Lance's stories, whether it be from tales of "ribbing" friends or laughing along with Lance at the absurd difficulties he's had with certain airlines. As should be obvious from the time period, he talks a lot about ECW and WCW (usually fondly in both cases).
There are some noticeable typos, but since this is essentially a straight collection of ten year old blog posts it's to be expected to some degree, and they weren't frequent or bad enough to be too distracting.
Storm Warning is as advertised - Lance Storm's thoughts and musings from a specific, and rather interesting, time period. Any pro wrestling fan should take a look.
The collection starts with his first commentary (amusingly about a match between Jericho and Chyna) and goes through the last WCW Nitro. Introductions have been added before most of the pieces to give a little bit of perspective, and there are photos added in throughout.
I've been following Lance's commentaries on StormWrestling.com for a few years now and was curious to read material from before he retired. He has a clear writing style and is a good storyteller. The commentaries here are as often about the large amounts of traveling required in his profession as they are about matches and wrestling specifics. There is a lot of humor in Lance's stories, whether it be from tales of "ribbing" friends or laughing along with Lance at the absurd difficulties he's had with certain airlines. As should be obvious from the time period, he talks a lot about ECW and WCW (usually fondly in both cases).
There are some noticeable typos, but since this is essentially a straight collection of ten year old blog posts it's to be expected to some degree, and they weren't frequent or bad enough to be too distracting.
Storm Warning is as advertised - Lance Storm's thoughts and musings from a specific, and rather interesting, time period. Any pro wrestling fan should take a look.
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