Wrestling isn't my thing, but Andre the Giant led an interesting life. Plus, he's in one of my all time favorite movies, The Princess Bride.

I like Andre a little less now, but it was a good book.

I was never a huge fan of wrestling but I was a fan of Andre the giant and the princes bride. Great book even if it was a short read.

Hulk Hogan on Andre the Giant:...people don't get it. There was never a fork or a knife, even a bed! There was never a situation where he could be comfortable. He was a seven-foot-four giant. With all the injuries and everything he shrank down to under seven feet.I watched him when he'd walk ahead of me at the airport. I heard people say horrible things and make fun of him. He lived in a cruel world.If you really understood what he went through and what he was all about, he was a gracious person...

It was ok, I was hoping for a bit more in terms of story and illustrations though. You basically get, he wrestled, he drank a lot, he had a tough life.

This book starts off with a lot of promise. In the first pages, Hulk Hogan speaks poetically about Andre the Giant, and tells us (it is drawn in the style of a documentary interview, camera on Hulk) that though Andre could be gruff and short-tempered, he was, underneath it all, a solidly good human being who has suffered immensely. The Hulk Hogan interveiw and the scene with Samuel Becket and the pickup truck (also in the early pages of the book) were the most compelling parts of the story for m...

This graphic novel was set up pretty strange in the fact that it wasn't in chronological order it jumped forward a lot, almost would seem like a highlight reel of Andre the Giants life in the ring and outside the ring. Starting from where he was treating like crap in his village by his neighbors due to his size to fixing a car that broken down, carrying a box up several flights of stairs as a moving man and then poof his a wrestler (all of this in the first 36 pages of the book). Then it goes o

As a pre-teen, I was a huge WWF wrestling fan in the early ‘90s - I had the sticker albums, a bunch of taped matches, and loads of wrestling toys and a ring (or squared circle); I loved all that crazy stuff. I left it behind when I became a teenager and never went back but I remember a lot from that time. There was a fake barber with gardening shears called Beefcake, a Scotsman in a kilt who was also in movies, and literally dozens of colourful wrestlers from hitmen to bushwhackers. Arguably the...

The storytelling was chronological but felt really disjointed. Sometimes not enough context/description given and other times way too much and not enough reliance on the reader or faith in the illustrations to communicate. For example: "Hogan, looking weirded out, acted as if his hand was crushed." Yeah. I got that from the drawing. The author is a wrestling fanatic and the vast majority of the bibliography is wrestling specific. There is a really slim section (six pages) on Andre's time filming...

People are just people, folks. We all have our own stresses, perspectives, lenses, experiences, biases, talents, desires, skills, challenges, weaknesses, and strengths. But we're all just people.Andre the Giant was no exception.Prior to reading this book, my primary reference point for him (like many people), was The Princess Bride. After reading this book, and googling a bunch of photos of the guy, I feel a bit more expert on the man.Andre Roussimoff's story makes me contemplate:Using potential...

This was recommended to me after reading and reviewing As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride .This graphic novel/biography examines Andre's life from about the age of 12 until his death. Andre, like everyone has many things that made him great as well as plenty of things that he could have done better. He was usually very endearing and tended to refer to everyone as, "Boss". When filming Princess Bride, he kept Robin Wright warm by gently placing his h...

So you don't care about "professional" wrestling or the WWF or have never heard of Andre the Giant? Well, be prepared to get interested. Andre was 7'4", and was in excess of 500 pounds when he died. He worked as a pro wrestler, became internationally famous for it, and that very size (and a disease he was said to have that kept him growing and prematurely aging) killed him at 46. If you liked Princess Bride, as millions do, Andre was in that film and best known for that outside of wrestling. He

What is not to love about a book that contains both Samuel Beckett and Mandy Patinkin?This book is also full of all sorts of things about wrestling that I did not know previously, which was helpful, since I knew absolutely zero about wrestling. Yay being entertainingly informed about new things!Above all, it's a fascinating look inside the life of a man who spent much of his time in the public spotlight . . . but had many facets that were not immediately visible to the world at large. I keep rea...

I'm not a fan of professional wrestling, and I never have been. Nothing against it, it just isn't my thing. What interest I have in Andre Roussimoff comes from my many, many viewings of A Princess Bride. I was a little worried that I might not be able to follow all of the wrestling related stuff. I was surprised at how easy Brown made it for a non-fan like myself to understand what was going on. I could basically tell what was going on in the ring, which I didn't expect at all. Oh, I'm sure that...

A cute little snapshot into the life and legend of the 8th wonder of the world Andre the Giant.

I have a soft spot for Andre the Giant (who doesn't?) so when I read about this in the NY Times I made a beeline for the library and eventually found it, banished in the Young Adult Room ghetto. For some reason, my library has half of its graphic novels in the regular popular library and half in the Young Adult Room and what goes where seems sort of arbitrary. So, as the kids of DC will soon find out, Andre the Giant was a hard living womanizer, a deadbeat dad, and a carouser who could put away

Andre the Giant: Life and Legend is a graphic novel released by First Second written and drawn by Box Brown.The graphic novel tell the story of Andre Roussimoff, better known as Andre the Giant - the 7 foot 6 inch tall and 600 pound wrestler. The book covers how Andre goi into the wrestling business and tales of his travels around the world. Because of the protection of the wrestling business, the tall-tales that former wrestlers tell, and stories passed around in the locker room, many of the st...

I quite enjoyed this simple telling of the life of Andre the Giant. Sad, poignant, interesting and enlightening, if you're interested in the man it's definitely worth checking out.

I have been really looking forward to this book, and I've heard so much buzz about it, that I was a bit disappointed, to be honest. I love Andre the Giant. I used to watch the Hulk Hogan Saturday Morning cartoon, and I am a huge Princess Bride fan. I remember reading an article about him shortly after he died, talking about how he was in so much pain his last few years, had had so many surgeries, yet was still such an amazing guy that everybody loved. So, clearly, a biography about him in graphi...

I was in seventh grade in 1987. I was perhaps the perfect age for becoming desperately fanatical over the events leading up to Wrestlemania III. It was the perfect combination of soap opera and athleticism. My brother and I would watch WWF matches every Saturday morning. I would come to school the next week and exuberate over what happened, what would happen next, who were good guys, who were bad guys, and who would win the championships. Hulk Hogan, Nikolai Volkoff, George the Animal Steele, Ad...