My Booky Wook

My Booky Wook
by Russell Brand

My Booky Wook
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Author: Russell Brand
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-08
ISBN: 0340936177
Number of pages: 352
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

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Book Review: Honesty which bites you on the bum like a crack riddled alsation
Summary: 5 Stars

..is probably how Russell himself would describe this book, and he would be right. Its hard to read this book without having seen him, as they way the book is written, you have to imagine him talking it, much like Huckleberry Finn for example. You know, its written in the style in which the narrator talks? Well, without the references to slavery and the Mississippi. Anyway.

You will have seen him in "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" in which he plays himself, no great stretch but as he is hilarious, so is the character.

Russell is a mentalist of the highest order, those 18th and 19th century mentalists like them geysers in the Hellfire Club, or them Frenchies, all smoking opium and getting off their tits on absinthe were mere auteurs compared to our Russ. He dresses like a regency dandy and pulls no punches, he says what he thinks, and his mind is a quick as a steel trap. He would make a brilliant barrister, I am sure. And a hilarious one.

Autobiographies tend generally to be of the "I am great" and "I remember when I rescued the puppies from the burning building" type. Russell Brand would probably rescue the puppies, he would also probably have set fire to the building in the first place, then attempted to have sex with the puppies after rescuing them.

Are you getting the picture? Nothing is sacred to him, he just sets down every little indiscression and some fairly large ones in amusing yet frank detail. He has recently been in the news (and sacked from his job on BBC Radio 2) for ringing actor Andrew Sachs (Manuel in Fawlty Towers) on air and boasting of his sexual adventures with his granddaughter. He was also sacked form his MTV job for going to work dressed as Osama Bin-Laden on September 12th 2001. That's the sort of character he is. And it is all there in amusing Technicolor for you to enjoy. Get it, but try and see him on DVD or the TV if you don't know his work yet, or else you wouldn't believe the book.

Summary of My Booky Wook

In 2006 Russell Brand exploded onto the international comedy scene. He has been named Time Out?s Comedian of the Year, Best Newcomer at the British Comedy Awards, and Most Stylish Man by GQ?s Men. His UK stand-up tour was sold out and his BBC Radio 6 show became a cult phenomenon, the second most popular podcast of the year. Before the fame, however, Russell?s life was anything but glamorous. His father left when he was three months old, he was bulimic at age 12, and began drinking heavily and taking drugs by age 16. He regularly visited prostitutes in Soho, began cutting himself, took drugs on stage during his stand-up shows, and even set himself on fire while on crack cocaine. In 2003 Russell was told that he would be in prison, a mental hospital, or dead within six months unless he went into rehab. He has now been clean for three years, and hasn?t looked back since. This is Russell?s amazing story.

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