- Hardcover: 272 pages
- Publisher: Rayo (April 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0060855835
- ISBN-13: 978-0060855833
- Product Dimensions: 24 x 19.4 x 2.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 389,141 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Written as though for a twelve year old, despite it's niche appeal...if you know anything whatsoever about lucha, north or south of the border,you're most likely to find the prose style pandering and patronising, as such I really didn't enjoy it. There are,in it's favour, hundreds of outstanding colour illustrations and photos, but even these are marred by childish captions.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Who was that masked man?
1 Feb 2011
If you're a fan of lucha libre (particularly the glory days of Santo, Blue Demon and Mil Mascaras), it's hard to go wrong with this book. There are several high-quality reproductions of lobby cards and movie posters from the 1950s through the 1970s as well as a generous assortment of full-page photographs. Many of the photos were taken specifically for this book. You'll also find profiles of the Guerrero family, various other wrestling families, and some of the most heartfelt and sincere text ever written about the sport of professional wrestling. Kurt Angle's introduction is one of the best I've ever read in any sports book, period.
What's missing? The recent rise in strong, popular female wrestlers such as Dark Angel and Lady Apache, for starters. And if only the book had a sort of appendix listing the title-holders for CMLL and AAA and the lengths of their reigns!
That said, this is as perfect a book about lucha libre as you could ask for otherwise and unlike some treatments of the subject this is a book written from the perspective of someone who isn't trying to create an ironic quasi-anthropological treatment. This is written by someone who genuinely loves not only the sport of lucha libre, but its pop-culture spinoffs and its loyal fandom. This is well-worth your money!
What's missing? The recent rise in strong, popular female wrestlers such as Dark Angel and Lady Apache, for starters. And if only the book had a sort of appendix listing the title-holders for CMLL and AAA and the lengths of their reigns!
That said, this is as perfect a book about lucha libre as you could ask for otherwise and unlike some treatments of the subject this is a book written from the perspective of someone who isn't trying to create an ironic quasi-anthropological treatment. This is written by someone who genuinely loves not only the sport of lucha libre, but its pop-culture spinoffs and its loyal fandom. This is well-worth your money!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
A Classy Lucha Love Letter!
19 Dec 2008
Format:Hardcover
A must-have for any fan of Lucha Libre. Madigan's book is more that a thorough history of Lucha, it's also a classy love letter from a true fan of the sport-enterprise. And it's coffee table book quality. In fact it is our coffee table book!
Daniel Boyd
Daniel Boyd
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant
4 April 2007
Format:Hardcover
Mondo Lucha A Go-Go is a wildly imaginative, beautifully written and vastly insightful look into the world of Mexican wrestling. It's not easy to chronicle the bizarre. Dan Madigan must have spent years in the trenches to come up with so many vivid portraits and compelling details. I love the word "honorable" in the title. That's Madigan's point-of-view, and it's what makes this book so special. This is exactly what I want a book of this kind to be.
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