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My Booky Wook 2: This Time It's Personal (2010)

My Booky Wook 2: This Time It's Personal (2010)

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0062059556 (ISBN13: 9780062059550)
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About book My Booky Wook 2: This Time It's Personal (2010)

I like Russell Brand. I think he is very funny and very smart. I read the original Booky Wook a year ago and thoroughly enjoyed it. While I similarly enjoyed this second outing, as it was more about his life in the limelight, I already knew a few of the stories and how they would turn out, while the source novel had more of a naive childhood charm full of surprises. Still, he writes with an intense sense of urgency and a love of archaic language and wordplay that puts most modern literature to shame. I'll begin this with a trite observation: Russell Brand isn't for everybody. That's fine; nobody's for everybody. Except maybe Stephen Fry. He's probably for everybody. Anyway, Russell Brand isn't for everybody, but he is a character that intrigues me. Working class with a sharp eloquence to arm an overflowingly charismatic persona. As someone who is interested in capital-C Characters, it's easy to be drawn in by his character. I read the first installation a year or so ago and was pleasantly surprised by his ability with words and his description of his life. Similarly this one didn't disappoint. I literally laughed out loud at multiple parts, and a few lines genuinely resonated with me. Again, he's not for everybody and I won't pretend I feel particularly sophisticated in calling myself a fan of his, but I am and sophistication isn't really the point in any case. I'm a fan because he's in the business of public honesty, and he cuts through societal façades in a way I find amenable and entertaining.

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I expected a clever, entertaining memoir culminating in how Russel had now turned his back on his lecherous ways to settle down with the beautiful Katy Perry.Instead, it is a self-indulgent sex-tale of not at all clever sexual anecdotes that left me feeling that I was wrong to ever have respected Russel's intellect in the first place.I do enjoy his television appearances but he does seem to have become a bit too self-important since American success. The book was full of this self-importance told in a false modesty style. It does indeed end, as I predicted, with a statement that this was his life but his new life would be with Katy, thrown in like an afterthought to not get him in trouble with the missus! By the time I finished the book they had split up and filed for divorce anyway. What a self-indulgent waste of time!
—matador666

I really enjoyed Russell's sequel to Booky Wook. Although I didn't find it as interesting or humorous as the original, I found that it was still both of those things. I feel like he writes about his flaws quite honestly and without sensor. I also always appreciate a book that has words I need to look up. It's a rare trait these days. The only downside to the book was reading of his love for a woman he ultimately divorced.
—Amyer

Not as good as the first, but still good. Laugh out loud funny at points.
—Saulsays

Entertaining book for a while, but not terribly likeable
—BonBon

If at all possible it was better than the first book.
—Chandni

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