Eat This Book: A Year of Gorging and Glory on the Competitive Eating Circuit

by Alfred Ryan Nerz and Ryan Nerz

Book Overview

A fascinating and gut-bustingly hilarious account of one man's journey into the insane world of competitive eating. Including shocking revelations about the history of the International Federation for Competitive Eating, the intricacies of individual contests and the controversial Belt of Fat theory, Nerz's travelogue-cum-history-cum-party journal and psychological study makes for reading as incredible as the loads of food his subjects (and himself)...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312339682
• ISBN13: 9780312339685
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Griffin
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Story-telling at it's best

Nerz is a natural-born storyteller, and I'd read anything he puts his name on. So it's no surprised that he could get me interested in competitive eating, a subject I have no inclination towards. Absolutely can't wait to see what he's up to next.

Great Author and Great Person

I had the pleasure of meeting Ryan Nerz back in October 2005 when my girlfriends and I were vacationing in Phoenix. What an awesome guy he is. Even in his "lost wallet" frenzy, he remained cool, calm and collected. We happened to be staying in the same hotel and coincidently, ended up all going to the same bar and then had drinks at the hotel after the bar closed. I believe at that time the book was "a work in progress." I received my autographed copy of "Eat this Book" from Ryan in the mail today and started reading the book. I found it funny, gross, and some of it is just out and out WILD. It's amazing what some people will do for notoriety and the thrill of Victory :) 57 cow brains in 15 minutes? 6 pounds of Spam in 12 minutes? I think I will choose anonymity.. Eva Chicago *Note to Ryan: Are there any kind of competitive Tequila Drinking contests? lmao

hysterical...loved it

i thought this book was hilarious. at first i wondered if the whole book was a sham, a mockumentary like one of those christopher guest films (best in show, this is spinal tap). but it's all real, almost frighteningly so at times. the characters were great, and the inside scoop on this esoteric american subculture was highly amusing. and i just found out you can see the author's appearance on the daily show...funny...check it out... [...]

Great read about a fascinating new sport

This is a great overview of the fast growing sport of competitive eating. Book goes into the background and inspirations of many different eater/athletes. I found this very interesting, informative and more importantly a very enjoyable read. Anyone can pick this up and have fun with it. Way better then going to the movies.

Delicious

This falls under one of those "I had no idea" categories of books. Kind of like WORD FREAK did for Scrabble, this opened up the world of competitive eating for those of us who maybe saw the Nathan's hot dog eating contest and that's it. The stories about the various eaters, their training and events themselves are insane. This is a really fast read--and totally fascinating. I loved it.