Still Just a Geek
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Still Just a Geek
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Narrated by:
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Wil Wheaton
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Wil Wheaton
Wil Wheaton grew up.
Ideally, this is what everyone does. But most of us don’t do it in front of millions of people. Wil was a very famous kid – right up until he wasn’t. After that, he wasn’t sure who he was at all.
So, in 2001, he started a blog. It was less about being a famous child than about being a not-so-famous grownup. He wrote about his pets and his hobbies, punk rock and parenting, board games and birthdays and (most importantly) burritos.
He thought he was writing for an audience of one: himself. To be fair, he was only off by about 3 million people. In Still Just a Geek, an older, somewhat wiser Wil revisits Just a Geek, his 2004 collection of posts from that blog, with all-new reflections on nerd culture, fame, love, trauma, tragedy, and confronting the worst parts of yourself.
Equal parts funny and poignant, Still Just a Geek explores the folly of youth and the pain of experience – and all the strange, awful, beautiful adventures in between.
©2022 Wil Wheaton (P)2022 HarperCollins PublishersI suffer from the same diagnosed metal illnesses as will and seeing him truthfully talk so openly about it was very important for me to read as well as very hard and triggering at points .
the unique approach from my experience of this book of him reading and talking about this previous book is really interesting and shows not just his life and amazing story's in shows but also his growth as a write and human .
Brilliant and really interesting human.
His performance in this is so real and raw and brilliant.
Thanks for making me cry Will .
Just wow
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Amazing
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Really well read, interesting and honest
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As for the book itself; I loved it. I had recently listened to him narrate 'The Martian' and thought he was spectacular. I've watched 'Tabletop' for years and I am a huge TNG fan. I'm almost the same age as Wil and understand almost all of his references to ancient things such as video tapes and He-Man.
I've always known Wil has had a troubled past, one that haunts him, but hearing him lay it all bare here is incredibly heart-breaking, but also feels like his opportunity to oust the demons and close his Necronomicon of hurt once and for all. I truly hope he is able to enjoy life to the fullest from this moment on. I actually found this book due to Michael Rosenbaum's podcast "Inside of You".
I like Wil, I have no "celebrity" feelings about him. After 'Still...', I see Wil as a person, someone who I would very much like to sit down with and watch television or play a board game. I feel he would be great company.
If I had to pick some negatives, I think he's too hard on himself and too eager to score points with the "modern crowd". I'm loathed to call him "woke" because frankly, it's really just basic human decency most of the time, but now and then I would have like him to dial it back a little. Women are amazing, people from minority groups and the LGBQT communities are likely great people, but just on a small level, I feel Wil tries a bit too hard to make points I feel well-rounded human beings already know. There's no point preaching this to the people on the other side of the fence on this one, they will never change. Wil's "White Privilege" guilt is the pinnacle of my irritation here as in 2023, this has all been talked about so much that it's tiresome. There's good people and bad people in my mind and that's all the conversation needed.
However, this only detracted in the most minor of ways and only in the moment. The book overall is 20+ hours well-spent in my mind and I will be looking for more narration by Wil in the future, albeit I guess this will be the last time it will be anything so personal.
Should Wil ever see this; thank you for being so open and able to be brave enough to put your vulnerabilities out into the world for all to see.
And just to prove I'm not fawning over his celebrity and trying to "suck up"... I don't like Big Bang Theory. There. I said it.
Peace x
Where there's a Wil, there's a way
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10 out of 10!
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