My Booky Wook: A Memoir of Sex, Drugs, and Stand-Up
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| Rating | : | 4.53 (677 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0061857807 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 368 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-10-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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He has won numerous awards including Time Out’s Comedian of the Year, Best Newcomer at the British Comedy Awards, Best TV Performer at the Broadcasting Press Guild Awards, and Most Stylish Man at GQ’s Men of the Year Awards. . Russell Brand is a comedian, journalist, TV and radio presenter, and actor. The first installment of his autobiography, My Book
To my shame, I’ll admit I sort of liked My Booky Wook.” (New York Times)“Hilarious. A child’s garden of vices, My Booky Wook is also a relentless ride with a comic mind clearly at the wheel. He rhapsodizes about heroin better than anyone since Jim Carroll. The bloke can write. Compelling. (New York Times Book Review)“’The most talented stand-up comedian to emerge in Britain this decade.” (Daily Telegraph (London))“A scandalous, libidinous memoir. A richly detailed memoir that’s peppered with both evocative descriptions of the author’s homeland and memorable lines Brand promises here another tome ‘about how it feels to be famous.’ To my shame, I can’t wait.” (Entertainment Weekly) . There is nothing Brand won’t reveal in search of
Delicious Read! Karen S. Simpson With trepidation I read this book not only because it hit the Best Selling list but out of general intrigue in this flamboyant bohemian, hypermanic comedian/actor. I fell in love with the character Aldous Snow in Forgetting Sarah Marshall and have thoroughly enjoyed Brand's stand up. Upon reading this Booky Wook I, along with millions of others, have fallen, albeit deeply, in lust for him. The book is brilliant. Brand has a way with words and is a fabulous writer. He is witty throughout his gamut of emotions the book takes you through. He uses his self-mockery in a playful way with such openness and honesty telling tales of his sordi. Entertaining, exciting, enlightening. I bought this book Entertaining, exciting, enlightening. I bought this book in 2009 and have read it a few times since. There's always a quote or passage I find when reading through again that I missed or didn't fully appreciate the previous time. Well worth at least one read through.. I enjoyed it AshG It was an okay book. I think I would have preferred a paper version to see my progress as some parts felt rather long. But nonetheless it was very interesting to see life through the eyes of another, particularly someone as adventurous as Russell Brand.
With the flick of his enviable pen, he can summarize childhood thus: ‘My very first utterance in life was not a single word, but a sentence. “A child’s garden of vices, My Booky Wook is also a relentless ride with a comic mind clearly at the wheel. The bloke can write. It was, ‘Don’t do that.’ Russell Brand has a compelling story." — New York Times Book ReviewThe gleeful and candid New York Times bestselling autobiography of addiction, recovery, and rise