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plexbrarian 's review for:
Nerd Do Well
by Simon Pegg
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.