It sounds like Will is a human being with feelings, complicated relationships, stagnating career prospects and a very entitled opinion. If you strip away the complicated time-jumping stories, it's the same thing over and over again.

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. All of this is fine, but it isn't one anecdote these themes recur in every single chapter. 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.

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. 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. I managed to get an hour or two into this book before I gave it up - and I very rarely abandon audiobooks. 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.Įqual 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. To be fair, he was only off by about three million people. He thought he was writing for an audience of one: himself.

He wrote about his pets and his hobbies, punk rock and parenting, board games and birthdays and (most importantly) burritos. It was less about being a famous child than about being a not-so-famous grown-up. After that, he wasn’t sure who he was at all. Wil was a very famous kid-right up until he wasn’t. But most of us don’t do it in front of millions of people. 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!

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