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3.58 AVERAGE
3.58 AVERAGE
I loved Nick Frost's memoir so of course I had to read the one by his platonic life partner, Simon Pegg. These two men have brought me so much joy. It was a treat getting a peek into their lives. There's something very satisfying about nerds who get to do nerd things and do it well enough to be their career. There's something very tangible about his nerdiness that gives his work a legitimacy, so it was amazing to hear how he got to where he is (or was when this book was written).
There's a whole chapter about how disappointing the Star Wars prequels were, and it feels like a little time capsule. When he wrote this book he was still far away from his own addition to the SW universe. I also feel at this point a lot of the hate for the prequels has softened; we think of them a bit more fondly as fun movies in the world we love. But maybe that's more my generation who were still kids when those movies came out.
Simon Pegg is a great writer, but the in between chapters that are his own personal fanfic about himself got a bit repetitive.
Overall recommend if you are a fan of his work, or just a big nerd in general.
There's a whole chapter about how disappointing the Star Wars prequels were, and it feels like a little time capsule. When he wrote this book he was still far away from his own addition to the SW universe. I also feel at this point a lot of the hate for the prequels has softened; we think of them a bit more fondly as fun movies in the world we love. But maybe that's more my generation who were still kids when those movies came out.
Simon Pegg is a great writer, but the in between chapters that are his own personal fanfic about himself got a bit repetitive.
Overall recommend if you are a fan of his work, or just a big nerd in general.
reflective
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Well, I have to give it at least 3 stars, because I rarely make it through autobiographies. The majority of this was tremendously self-indulgent on the part of the author, but when it was funny, it was REALLY funny.
A fun look into Pegg's life focused around specific periods. The ongoing interlude of his own fictional story is hilarious and makes me interested in reading a story Pegg would get to devote more time to someday.
I really like Simon Pegg, but I'm not sure he had quite enough to say here. Some fascinating vignettes and plenty of filler.
Spent to much time on his childhood for my taste, I would have preferred more about his professional career especially with his long time partners Wright and Frost.
I liked the bits where he talked of his growing up years and life but the story hewas writing threaded in with the biographical stuff? Hated it. I started to skip over it midway through the book and felt myself get annoyed when he came back to it between talking about his life. That could have been happily left out and not been missed.
If I wasn't such a big Simon Pegg fan I probably would have given this one less star for the choppy writing. Sometimes I had trouble figuring out where something fit chronologically in the rambling train of thought that he had just derailed (Ok, not sometimes. More like constantly). Despite that, his obvious love for what he does and the people he works with really shines through and I found this to be a very entertaining read about his career and all the nerdy/ geeky/ sci fi-y stuff that goes with it.
Note - I may have fan girled really hard when I read about his early friendship with Nick Frost. Way more adorable than I could have made up in my head.
Note - I may have fan girled really hard when I read about his early friendship with Nick Frost. Way more adorable than I could have made up in my head.
Part thrilling adventure story (in which Pegg and his best robotic friend Canterbury rush across the globe to save the Star of Nefertiti from nefarious clutches and avoid writing an autobiography), and part autobiography (in which Pegg grows up being nerdy and describes his dog's propensity for stocking consumption to deflect attention to himself), Simon Pegg's Nerd Do Well succeeds in continuing to showcase the puppy-love-infatuated, slightly awkward, and wannabe-badass tone that he pulls off so well in his roles on film and the telly.
I would love to meet him because I've always liked his movies and this bio portray him as so normal and down-to-earth...although such an encounter would likely occur much in the way of his meetup with Carrie Fisher in a signing line at Comic Con (with markedly less description of inappropriate pubescent activities undertaken while staring longingly at a poster of him that I definitely most certainly do not have).
To be honest, I was hoping for more of a laugh in Nerd Do Well and there are some humorous moments, but it wasn't quite what I was looking for. It felt more like talking to a guy you fancy after going through all the preliminary dating questions and really getting down to his roots in comedy and learning some of the degrees of separation between him and other people in the film industry. While also reading about him having copious amounts of fictitious boot-knocking with exotic, dangerous French women who he may or may not have pulled out of subjects in real life.
I liked it well enough. It was full of Pegg's voice (what with him being the narrator and all), which was pleasant, and a tone that was consistent with the other characters he's played. I think that I've just been looking to the memoirs of "funny" people for comedy when that's not really what these types of books are always about, so I came out a little disappointed in the end.
I would love to meet him because I've always liked his movies and this bio portray him as so normal and down-to-earth...although such an encounter would likely occur much in the way of his meetup with Carrie Fisher in a signing line at Comic Con (with markedly less description of inappropriate pubescent activities undertaken while staring longingly at a poster of him that I definitely most certainly do not have).
To be honest, I was hoping for more of a laugh in Nerd Do Well and there are some humorous moments, but it wasn't quite what I was looking for. It felt more like talking to a guy you fancy after going through all the preliminary dating questions and really getting down to his roots in comedy and learning some of the degrees of separation between him and other people in the film industry. While also reading about him having copious amounts of fictitious boot-knocking with exotic, dangerous French women who he may or may not have pulled out of subjects in real life.
I liked it well enough. It was full of Pegg's voice (what with him being the narrator and all), which was pleasant, and a tone that was consistent with the other characters he's played. I think that I've just been looking to the memoirs of "funny" people for comedy when that's not really what these types of books are always about, so I came out a little disappointed in the end.
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
relaxing
medium-paced