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My Booky Wook 2: This Time It's Personal
Brand is really smart and I enjoy his writing. He doesn’t have someone else write for him, which I always appreciate in a celebrity memoir. His voice is clear, his asides are hilarious and you can feel his personality on every page. As in his first book, he isn’t trying to clean up his past and make himself look better. He knows he was horrible at times and doesn’t try to brush it off or blame it on other things. Although there are a few times where I feel he has the attitude of “This is who I am and I’m honest about it, so you can’t get mad at me.” and that doesn’t really fly.
He’s writing about clean and sober times now, so there’s a much happier and lighter tone. However, his sex addiction is still turned up to eleven and it’s sad to see. Even though women delight him on all levels, you get the sense early on that he realizes there’s something more than sex and that he’s both bewildered by it and drawn to it.
He continues his story about fame and how weird it is. He is huge in England and began to get excited about the idea of coming to
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My Booky Wook
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My Booky Wook
Memoir by Russell Brand
My Booky Wook is a memoir, written by English comedian and actor Russell Brand, published in by Hodder & Stoughton. It was released in North America and Australia in by HarperCollins Publishers.
Summary
[edit]This warts-and-all account of Brand's life follows, in vivid detail, the star's life from his troubled childhood in Grays End Close, Grays, Essex, to his first taste for fame in stage school up to his turbulent drug addiction and his triumphant rise to fame from Re:Brand to Big Brother's Big Mouth to Hollywood.
Chapters
[edit]My Booky Wook is divided into four sections. Its title is in the style of the fictional Nadsat language from A Clockwork Orange: Brand explained the reference during his appearance on Have I Got News For You in December
Critical reception
[edit]The book garnered mostly positive reviews. The Sun called it "candid, funny and moving." The Observer claimed it was "better written and more entertaining than any number of the celebrity autobiographies that clog the shelves of bookshops." However, some reviews were less complimentary: Private Eye magazine called it "dismal and masturbatory." The book won the Biography of the year at the British Book Awards[1] and the O