The Rock Says...
Dwayne Johnson's 2000 autobiography, written with Joe Layden at the peak of his WWF run
Published in 2000. The book covers Johnson's childhood on the road with his wrestler father, his football years at the University of Miami, a stint on a Canadian practice squad and the climb through the WWF. It switches between his own voice and the third-person bravado of The Rock character. Fans read it for the Attitude Era stories. The parts that last are the account of being cut from football with almost nothing to his name, and the training discipline his father drilled in early.
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Actor and former WWE champion · The Rock
His own book, out in 2000. He was the WWF's biggest draw at the time, and roughly a third of it is written in the third person, as The Rock character. Complex revisited it in 2015 and did not rate it, calling it a rushed product of the WWE memoir boom that followed Mick Foley's bestseller. Complex mined it anyway, for the pre-Hollywood stories.
Source: Complex: What We Learned from Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson's 2000 Autobiography 'The Rock Says...'
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