My Booky Wook: A Memoir of Sex, Drugs, and Stand-Up

Boring

This book is so lame....

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Incredible!

I loved this book! I love Russell Brand! It was an amazing read. I'll admit I get bored sometimes when I start a new book. I think I'm easily disappointed. But I didn't want to put this book down. When I finished it-I missed it. I wanted to read it again. Russell has an amazing story and I'm so happy he wrote it all down. I laughed, I cringed and I cried. Honestly, I felt young again after reading it. Maybe even hopeful. I thought if he's able to keep going after all he's done and been through- then maybe there is hope for us all. Who knew the next comedic Messiah would actually have relations with prostitues and be vegetarian !?! Perhaps all great learning does come from suffering. xoxo

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Good Job Russell Brand

I love this book a lot, i love reading the story of his life. is comedy is super funny, but his life was kinda sad in a way. Russel Brand is the best new comedian so far and i see nothing but good things happening to him in the future

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Funny and Entertaining, but Disturbing Russell Brand had a rough

Funny and Entertaining, but Disturbing
Russell Brand had a rough childhood. Russell grew up in industrial Essex, England. His father abandoned his family while he was still young, so he was raised as an only child by his mother. His mother had recurring cases of cancer, which in turn affected Russell. At an early age Brand was subjected to pornography, drugs, and alcohol. By his mid-teens he was bulimic, cutting himself, and constantly drunk and high off drugs. Through all this Russell was able to rise and become a star. Russell found happiness in the arts, specifically theater.
I enjoyed My Booky Wook. Russell Brand tells his coming of age in a hilarious fashion. His stories are long-winded, but paint a clear picture of what he went through by using dozens of metaphors and similes. It is sometimes hard to believe his stories are true because they are so horrific. It was a bit hard to understand at times, since I am unfamiliar with some of the references he made, although; there was a glossary at the bottom of each page explaining his allusions. Readers definitely need to be mature and of age as Brand talks much about sex and the use of drugs. Children should not read this book. There is also frequent use of foul language. Overall, it was enlightening to see someone with a rough childhood rise to fame. Knowing Russell Brand’s past, it now makes sense why he is the way he is today.

Wonderful

This book was hilarious, but only if you have the right kind of humor. I happen to have that humor so i loved it. Thought it was brilliant and laughed out at least twice a chapter.

Funny,easy read

Graphic sex and drugs but an entertaining read

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Disappointing

If reading is an escape this book is would be an vault into a whirlpool of sadness.

Only a 1 cuz I could not finish the book...

I have seen Russell Brand in interviews and know he is a funny guy, but I just wan't getting it across the book. I was getting constant details of his life. From parents getting married til I don't even know when but I am guessing somewhere around the point of college, high school. This book offers great insight into what it might be to be drug addict, but the problem is I felt he was drugged up while writing it as I just couldn't follow all that often...Or it could have just been the boredom at every detail of his life that made me not follow the book very well. I got to page 200 saw that it didn't even seem to be half the book yet and had to put it down and walk away. Literally I set it down where I was reading and walked away. Didn't even bother to take it with me. I would have walked a way not feeling my time had been a total loss if I had at least laughed a little more....

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Great Insite

Loved it was funny yet at times sad stuff that he has gone through

Don't Bother!

I gave up on this piece of garbage after 50 pages or so. Boy am I glad I hadn't gone ahead and bought the second one at the same time!

omg.....

thisnwas an ok book would not recomend it though

Marvelous!

I loved this book! Russel Brand is hilarious and straight-forward about his past. It includes pictures, as well as hilarious, inappropriate language.

Boring

A total waste of money. I waited forever to get to read this book and it was a total and utter disappointment. It was miserable! I forced myself to finish it and it was like torture.

I loved it!!

This book was fun and funny but it was also meaningful. I could read it again and again.

ok but could be better

russel brand shows off his wild side but with out any emotion when he couod have made a fasinating book he wrote that was in every sense of the word 'egh' tge stories were grabed from thin air and did not go together.

unintelligible blabber.

A story that could have been compelling had a real author been brought into the process.

Highly Recommended for any Russell Brand Fan

<3 Russell Brand

an entertaining read

In "My Booky Wook," Russell Brand chronicles his pre-stardom years-growing up near London and frequently getting himself into all kinds of painful (for him) and funny (for the readers) misadventures. A famous comedian in the U.K., best known in the U.S. for his roles in the Judd Apatow comedies "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" and "Get Him to the Greek," as well as gigs like hosting the MTV Video Music Awards, Russell Brand's life tends to mirror his art.

Growing up without a father figure and with a sick mother, Brand is mostly left to his own devices-which usually doesn't turn out very well. At sixteen, he decides to become an actor and enrolls in the prestigious Italia Conti drama school-only to be kicked out during his last semester due to his pre-occupation with drugs.

As a result, Brand moves in with a few of his friends and decides to become a stand-up comedian-peforming in pubs and festivals. However, his self-destructive ways (drug abuse, alcoholism, sex addiction) interfere with his dreams and soon Brand is barely getting by. Everything changes when Russell lands a U.S. MTV hosting gig-that he eventually loses shortly after introducing Kylie Minogue to his drug dealer and wearing a controversial costume.

The above instance perhaps best characterizes Brand's lengthy memoir-crazy but simultaneously hilarious. Russell Brand has obviously been through a lot in his life, but nevertheless manages to recount the majority of the outrageous situations he gets himself into, as one big entertaining read. It definitely invites a sequel into Brand's life post-stardom. Fans of entertaining celebrity memoirs will enjoy this.

Decent stories, but hard to read.

I'd seen his stand up on TV a few times and thought it was hilarious, but I really disliked his book. Basically it was just generally hard to read. He goes off on tangents and then jumps back to what he was saying before without making a whole lot of sense. Most of the stories were okay, but some of it was just like "let's see if I can find the most outragous stuff that ever happened to me and write it down even if it doesn't make sense with what I'm talking about or really have any value what so ever."
Basically if you're looking for a funny read this isn't it, but if you're just looking to know more about Russell, here more than you ever wanted to know. For me it was a struggle to finish the whole thing.