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Still Just a Geek
- Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
- Length: 23 hrs and 50 mins
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Summary
Celebrated actor, personality and all-around nerd Wil Wheaton updates his memoir of collected blog posts with all new material and annotations as he re-examines one of the most interesting lives in Hollywood and fandom!
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 grown-up. 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 three 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.
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- Rusty ray guns
- 29-04-22
Just wow
This was very well written deeply interesting and incredibly moving.
I 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 .
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- Skjoldmoe
- 07-01-23
Contrary to some other commenters...
I get the sense that people who describe the book as whiny and apologetic or entitled and woke have little understanding or empathy for the kind struggles described here. This says more about the commenter than the author whose writing is both introspective and self-reflecting in a way that more people should aid to be. I saw myself in-between the lines of the book and heard my voice told through the narration of the Author as he challenged old writings and established a new sense of self-worth and awareness throughout 'Still Just a Geek'. I wish for all to find the patience and kindness in themselves to not judge anyone with similar struggles just because you didn't experience them.
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- Michael
- 20-06-22
Not what I expected.
I've not finished the audiobook and am about to return it. It seems clear from the introduction that this book will be one big apology and a bit of a self-cancel of things he has previously said.
I am a massive fan of Will's narration in various audiobooks and will continue to seek out his narration in other stories. However listening to someone try to justify himself to a previously offended audience (that doesn't include me) is not something I'm going to waste 20 hours on.
if that's your kind of thing then it could be great.
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- MarkyT
- 14-06-22
An Actor moaning about being an Actor
Couldn’t get past the third chapter, Wills endless apologies about being a entitled person and the approach of just changing the tone of his voice to denote the era or age of himself is just unbearable. It’s a very irritating thing to listen to a celeb moaning about being a celeb and then endlessly apologising for his behaviour in the past is not worth a credit.. a hard pass.
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- JGibbs
- 10-05-22
Enjoyably Long!! (that's a good thing!!)
Great listen and really insightful. Loved getting to know Wil Wheaton!! Recommended for nerds like me!!!
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- Laura Willcock
- 02-05-22
Amazing!
I couldn’t stop listening to Wil talk about his whole life! The heartache listening to him struggle with past traumas. Hearing him giggle at recalled events. Feeling annoyed at Jimmy Kibble’s cousin!
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- Mac Collie
- 26-04-22
Another case of never meet your heroes
If you are a fan of Wesley Crusher, Gordie Lachance or Will Wheaton in TBBT, then don't buy this book! It will destroy the great memories you have of each of these characters and you will regret reading it. I genuinely wanted to like it, but I couldn't even finish it.
It's whiny, self-centred and filled with chapters of waffle. It jumps around so much it's jarring to listen to. I didn't even like his reading style, it's way too animated and over the top and just comes across false, particular his "apologies".
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- Mrs G Dowling
- 21-12-22
sorry to say ill be returning
just not getting into this one. he just rehash just a geek and just feels like he's trying to be woker then woke with atlest the first 2 thirds of thr book. Will still look out for other audio books he narrated. he's a fantastic narrator
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- Paul Harris
- 01-09-22
Self-deprecating, parent hating rant.
I managed to get an hour or two into this book before I gave it up - and I very rarely abandon audiobooks. Will Wheaton is an excellent narrator of audiobooks; I love his Scalzi titles and I'm not sure whether it was the whiny, entitled original, the latter self-deprecating, excessively politically correct additions or the constant switching back and forth that made it really hard to listen to.
The book is presented as Will choosing certain excerpts from his book "Just a geek" (~2009 I think), which is itself a compilation of blogs, all overlaid with current-day Will's thoughts. The constant jumping about is so tedious that you either have to listen very carefully to every word to make sure you can keep up, or you just get fed up with the whole thing, stop caring about the flow and realize that, at least based on the first couple of hours, it's Will Wheaton basically lamenting the fact that his career nose-dived after Star Trek TNG, railing at his parents (who sound like quite unlikeable people, based on a very one-sided view) and at his old self for using politically incorrect tropes.
All of this is fine, but it isn't one anecdote; these themes recur in every single chapter. All the stories he tells have some element of being screwed over by his manipulative parents, of his own lack of confidence and the (what some may consider rather insubstantial and "1st world") problems he has encountered. If you strip away the complicated time-jumping stories, it's the same thing over and over again.
It sounds like Will is a human being with feelings, complicated relationships, stagnating career prospects and a very entitled opinion. Well, welcome to the life of a human - I enjoyed the start of your book, but it's just too repetitive, too whiny and too long for me to get through. You sound like a nice bloke and all, and I'll still listen to you read books, just not your own.
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- Anonymous User
- 28-04-22
To get to know Wil Wheaton
With Wil Wheaton I cringed, laughed, cried and cringed again. Not always easy material to get through and at times quite uncomfortable, but it is his story, and thus necessary.
I enjoy Wils' narrating in general, but hearing him read his own words with his very real reactions, is something that would be completely absent in any other format.
Thank you Wil for your audio book, it has helped me.
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