Author Topic: Gorilla Suit By Bob Paris (Read 6864 times)

Karl Kox · « **on:** February 27, 2006, 08:19:51 PM »

has anyone read it ?

Is it worth reading ?

gibberj2 · « **Reply #1 on:** February 27, 2006, 08:56:11 PM »

come on don't post stuff like this for no reason.

Karl Kox · « **Reply #2 on:** February 27, 2006, 09:03:31 PM »

Quote from: gibberj2 on February 27, 2006, 08:56:11 PM

come on don't post stuff like this for no reason.

what makes you think it's for no reason ?
I am thinking of reading it. So how is that for no reason ?

gibberj2 · « **Reply #3 on:** February 27, 2006, 10:17:26 PM »

what gorilla suit? i thought this was one of those threads people say something like "bla bla... discuss"

Van_Bilderass · « **Reply #4 on:** February 27, 2006, 10:21:46 PM »

It wasn't hugely interesting IMO. Not that much juicy gossip... pretty boring.

timfogarty · « **Reply #5 on:** February 27, 2006, 10:24:34 PM »

for a bodybuilding biography, it's rather well written

gibberj2 · « **Reply #6 on:** February 27, 2006, 10:41:05 PM »

oh, it's a book. OK

Karl Kox · « **Reply #7 on:** February 28, 2006, 06:15:23 AM »

Quote from: Van_Bilderass on February 27, 2006, 10:21:46 PM

It wasn't hugely interesting IMO. Not that much juicy gossip... pretty boring.

Would $5.98 be to much to spend for it at Half Price Books ?

NYCDVR · « **Reply #8 on:** February 28, 2006, 05:02:20 PM »

Karl are you really asking for a second opinion before spending 6 bucks?

If your slightly interested (posting about it online) and its 6 bucks BUY IT

Damn you guys are close with the $

BroadStreetBruiser · « **Reply #9 on:** February 28, 2006, 08:54:22 PM »

karl's broke hahahahahahahahaha get a job muscle head

Oliver Klaushof · « **Reply #10 on:** February 28, 2006, 10:11:37 PM »

The title of this thread is racist.

apk19 · « **Reply #11 on:** February 28, 2006, 10:30:43 PM »

It's an interesting story...but he bitches like a pussy. I thought it was ok.

If I were you I'd go out and buy Jon Hotten's, Muscle. It's kick ass.

Gord · « **Reply #12 on:** March 01, 2006, 09:56:18 AM »

Quote from: apk19 on February 28, 2006, 10:30:43 PM

.....If I were you I'd go out and buy Jon Hotten's, Muscle. It's kick ass.

Any more details on that?

JOEMUSCLE · « **Reply #13 on:** March 01, 2006, 12:45:37 PM »

I agree. Sam Fussell's book, Muscle - Confessions of an Unlikely Bodybuilder is a good read. Gorilla Suit is an interesting book, if not particularly well written. I found it kind of dull. I suggest checking to see if you can buy it used off Amazon.com for less than $6. If not, 6$ is not a bad price.

Jr. Yates · « **Reply #14 on:** March 01, 2006, 01:55:34 PM »

i have never enjoyed the books...just magazines.

Karl Kox · « **Reply #15 on:** March 01, 2006, 04:00:33 PM »

Quote from: BroadStreetBruiser on February 28, 2006, 08:54:22 PM

karl's broke hahahahahahahahaha get a job muscle head

No not broke just cheap but I already bought it and have read some already.

I did not know he was gay. But I did not know shit about anyway thats why I got the book. He was a little before my time

HRDCOR · « **Reply #16 on:** March 01, 2006, 05:59:21 PM »

Many moons ago , they had the World Pro Show in Aussie and I was back stage there, I got photos with Gary Strydom, Bertil Fox,Robbie Robinson, Albert Beckels and the like but the only guy who wouldnt let me get a photo was Paris !!!, cheeze it pissed me off, the big raving fag was to up tight to get a photo done , while everybody elese was cool !!!
Thats my memorie of Paris oh and plus that routine he did where he dies !!!

marcie999 · « **Reply #17 on:** March 01, 2006, 06:31:08 PM »

And here I was expecting to see pics of some BB with lots of hair on his body......

I actually feel disappointed dammit.

Karl Kox · « **Reply #18 on:** March 01, 2006, 07:00:25 PM »

Quote from: marcie999 on March 01, 2006, 06:31:08 PM

And here I was expecting to see pics of some BB with lots of hair on his body......
I actually feel disappointed dammit.

Not BB but definetely hairy

apk19 · « **Reply #19 on:** March 01, 2006, 07:52:47 PM »

Quote from: Gord on March 01, 2006, 09:56:18 AM

Any more details on that?

Ok. Read the whole book in two sittings and finished last night. Topics include:

+Andreas Muntzer's death
+Grant Thomas and the difference between amateurs and pros
+Dorian's rise to prominance and why he was better than everyone else (including the 97 O where he tore almost all of his tricep)
+He covers the England GP 02 and then the Dutch GP with Big Ron
+Covers Arnold, Pumping Iron, the Arnold 03
+Back to Munzter's death and what he took (and if he really took all of it)
+A bit about the drugs and the different amounts pros take and the genetic factors to why different people react to steriods differently
+A chapter on Wayne DeMilia and the build-up to the 03 O (Wayne does come off too well in this book. He gives Dorian a nosebleed seat for the O)
+The 3-way angle with Gunter v Jay v Ronnie
+The 03 O, lack of a diuretics test, DeMilia thinks he solved the problem of deaths in bodybuilding
+Muntzer again: he uses him as a metaphor for sports and society
+An afterword about DeMilia leaving AMI because Pecker didn't want him to promote the O after Ben Weider told him to fire Wayne
+An update about drugs in sport, BALCO busts and their ties with mainstream sport

It was a balanced, fair assessment of the sport. The thing I'll remember most is that he said if everybody let everyone take what they wanted in order to compete, bodybuilding was the epitomy of that hypothesis. That the "era of the freak" is here to stay and the sport is teleological.

Chad 'drugs guru' Nicholls get a mention as well as Getbig

Peaking at 45 !!! · « **Reply #20 on:** March 01, 2006, 09:12:10 PM »

Quote from: Karl Kox on March 01, 2006, 07:00:25 PM

Not BB but definetely hairy

One of the most entertaining Pro wrestlers of all time-----

GEORGE THE ANIMAL STEEL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

On tv he could barely talk, and would usually grunt.

Of course, in real life I believe he was/is a school teacher in the Detriot area, I believe.

timfogarty · « **Reply #21 on:** March 01, 2006, 09:59:18 PM »

Quote from: apk19 on March 01, 2006, 07:52:47 PM

It was a balanced, fair assessment of the sport.

But it had a few major errors, like saying Reg Park of the UK was a Mr America. The worst part is that the Hotten is from the UK. (btw, my copy was purchased in the UK over a year ago, so it may have corrected in the US edition)

Gord · « **Reply #22 on:** March 02, 2006, 07:23:04 AM »

Quote from: apk19 on March 01, 2006, 07:52:47 PM

Ok. Read the whole book in two sittings and finished last night. Topics include:
+Andreas Muntzer's death
+Grant Thomas and the difference between amateurs and pros
+Dorian's rise to prominance and why he was better than everyone else (including the 97 O where he tore almost all of his tricep)
+He covers the England GP 02 and then the Dutch GP with Big Ron
+Covers Arnold, Pumping Iron, the Arnold 03
+Back to Munzter's death and what he took (and if he really took all of it)
+A bit about the drugs and the different amounts pros take and the genetic factors to why different people react to steriods differently
+A chapter on Wayne DeMilia and the build-up to the 03 O (Wayne does come off too well in this book. He gives Dorian a nosebleed seat for the O)
+The 3-way angle with Gunter v Jay v Ronnie
+The 03 O, lack of a diuretics test, DeMilia thinks he solved the problem of deaths in bodybuilding
+Muntzer again: he uses him as a metaphor for sports and society
+An afterword about DeMilia leaving AMI because Pecker didn't want him to promote the O after Ben Weider told him to fire Wayne
+An update about drugs in sport, BALCO busts and their ties with mainstream sport
It was a balanced, fair assessment of the sport. The thing I'll remember most is that he said if everybody let everyone take what they wanted in order to compete, bodybuilding was the epitomy of that hypothesis. That the "era of the freak" is here to stay and the sport is teleological.
Chad 'drugs guru' Nicholls get a mention as well as Getbig

I asked for details and got them. Thanks for that.

Karl Kox · « **Reply #23 on:** March 02, 2006, 07:36:10 AM »

Did yall know that Bob Paris wrote a book called " Generation Queer " ?

WTF I did not know that !