Overview
The Russell Brand of MY BOOKY WOOK is surprisingly approachable. The comedian's playful love of language is evident from his occasional lapse into obscure or archaic words, and sits well with his penchant for childishness. Inevitably, the main point of interest is Brand's addictions, drugs and sex, about which he writes with unexpected. My Booky Wook Brand, Russell on Amazon.com.FREE. shipping on qualifying offers. Buy a cheap copy of My Booky Wook by Russell Brand. Russell Brand learned early on to make a joke of fear and failure. From a troubled childhood in industrial Essex, England, to his descent into addictions to. Free shipping over $10. My Booky Wook by Russel Brand is about Russell Brand's life, his sex and love addiction, his heroin addiction and just stories from his life. My Booky Wook: A Memoir of Sex, Drugs, and Stand-Up by Russell Brand. The gleeful and candid New York Times bestselling autobiography of addiction, recovery, and rise to fame from Russell Brand, star of Forgetting Sarah Marshall and one of the biggest personalities in comedy today. Toggle navigation.
“A child’s garden of vices, My Booky Wook is also a relentless ride with a comic mind clearly at the wheel.... The bloke can write. He rhapsodizes about heroin better than anyone since Jim Carroll. With the flick of his enviable pen, he can summarize childhood thus: ‘My very first utterance in life was not a single word, but a sentence. It was, ‘Don’t do that.’... Russell Brand has a compelling story.' — New York Times Book Review
The gleeful and candid New York Times bestselling autobiography of addiction, recovery, and rise to fame from Russell Brand, star of Forgetting Sarah Marshall and one of the biggest personalities in comedy today.
Picking up where he left off in My Booky Wook, movie star and comedian Russell Brand details his rapid climb to fame and fortune in a shockingly candid, resolutely funny, and unbelievably electrifying tell-all: Booky Wook 2. Brand’s performances in Arthur, Get Him to the Greek, and Forgetting Sarah Marshall have earned him a place in fans’ hearts; now, with a drop of Chelsea Handler’s Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang, a dash of Tommy Lee’s Dirt, and a spoonful of Nikki Sixx’s The Heroin Diaries, Brand goes all the way—exposing the mad genius behind the audacious comic we all know (or think we know) and love (or at least, lust).
Author | Russell Brand |
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Cover artist | Shepard Fairey |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Genre | Memoir |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
30 September 2010 (hardback) | |
Media type | Print (hardcover) |
Pages | 311 |
ISBN | 978-0-00-729882-2 (hardcover) |
OCLC | 302057286 |
Preceded by | My Booky Wook |
Booky Wook 2: This Time It's Personal is the second memoir, written by English comedian and actor Russell Brand. It was published in September 2010 by HarperCollins.
Reception[edit]
A critic from Entertainment Weekly gave the book an A minus saying fans of Brands first book will also like the sequel.[1]
References[edit]
- ^Collis, Clark (October 15, 2010), 'Booky Wook 2'. Entertainment Weekly. (1124):79