"Don't waste your time, brother!" ... this, alas, should be the subtitle of a book that fails to live-up to the anticipation of its release.

First ... I want to point out how the WWE commercial for this book is deceiving. The book shown in the commercial looks rather girthy--"Foley size." However, the book itself isn't that large ... only approximately (and sadly) the size of The Rock and Kurt Angle's respective publications.

The book itself is a slow read. There isn't much emotion by Hogan and the writing style is boring. It is a strange book because there is no transition or flow between chapters ... "basically," you could select any chapter and read it without needing any prior knolwedge. Furthermore, the chapters themselves are painfully short and furthermore, they are, at times, out of chronolical order.

For instance ... Chapter 49 talks about the advent of the nWo in 1996 and 1997. In Chapter 50, he talks about how he discovered The Big Show during his 1st year in WCW and Chapter 52 discusses the "Hulk Rules" CD and how the main songs were written in 1992. So ... some major jumping around, which, the way the chapters are organized as simply one short story after another, this time-order could have been easily corrected by simple organization.

If the casual fan read "Hollywood Hulk Hogan," they would assume that Hogan only wrestled once per year--at Wrestlemania. Because, his Wrestlemania matches are the only ones he really touches on. Thinking back on Hogan's famous feuds that he failed to even mention ... we see pictures in the insert of Hogan facing The Bossman and Earthquake but there are no in-text references to these matches. One of Hogan's most famous feuds, with Roddy Piper, is barely mentioned. One would be interested in Hogan's opinion regarding working with guys like Piper but--aside from a select few instances--we don't get any in-depth feelings about anyone. Hogan definately doesn't remotely shoot on anyone.

Aside from the lack of depth regarding his feuds and matches, Hogan also fails to mention his early days in WCW, his alleged "control" of WCW as well as the sexual harassment case that turned into an extortion lawsuit from back in approximately 1995. The latter definately should have been discussed.

However, Hogan does go into extreme detail regarding conversations with his doctor over his injured knee as well as difficulties with Dennis Rodman and "Thunder in Paradise" ... something probably most fans could care less about.

Hogan does clear-up the "Arsenio Hall"-"Basically" debacle as well as his opinions on steriods. He does--a big surprise here--have a tad of an ego. Possibly why this is why Hogan barely mentions any other wrestlers. Seemingly, not only did Hogan wrestle once-per-year at Wrestlemania but he was the only guy on the WWF roster--aside from his opponent, that is. His ego, sometimes, is hard to get past.

But regardless, this book is lacking something major--the vast information that Hogan could have discussed as well as a heartfelt voice.

This book should be one of the stand-outs for wrestling fans ... unfortunately, "brother," it is simply a lackluster and unemotional bore.