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A review by littlestcabbage
Absolute Pandemonium: My Louder Than Life Story by Brian Blessed
3.0
A friend recommended this book after I enjoyed listening to As You Wish (Cary Elwes's memoir about making The Princess Bride). My familiarity with Brian Blessed is largely centered around Flash Gordon, so nearly all of this audiobook was about works of Blessed's I haven't seen (it took me an awfully long time to figure out what "Zed Cars" was).
Guys, he's a nut. He claims to remember the moment of his birth. He claims he had stroke-like moments when he was younger that resulted in him being able to read thoughts and literally see the atomic structure of objects and people and creatures. His favorite thing is to say something outlandish and then insist to readers that it may sound impossible but "I assure you it is all perfectly true." He also kiiiiiiind of sounds like a dick sometimes (kicking people in the ass a lot on set when he knew they were terribly uncomfortable, saying disparaging shit about interns, fucking off from rehearsal without an explanation because "I just had to," etc.). And I could do without his voices for Japanese people.
But honestly, this is a fun one to listen to because he straight-up performs the hell out of the whole book. He's not reading it, he's not talking to you, he's performing it. If you'd like to be boomed at for 13 hours, hearing stories about Yorkshire, theatre school, Peter O'Toole, and beloved sci-fi films, get ahold of this baby.
Guys, he's a nut. He claims to remember the moment of his birth. He claims he had stroke-like moments when he was younger that resulted in him being able to read thoughts and literally see the atomic structure of objects and people and creatures. His favorite thing is to say something outlandish and then insist to readers that it may sound impossible but "I assure you it is all perfectly true." He also kiiiiiiind of sounds like a dick sometimes (kicking people in the ass a lot on set when he knew they were terribly uncomfortable, saying disparaging shit about interns, fucking off from rehearsal without an explanation because "I just had to," etc.). And I could do without his voices for Japanese people.
But honestly, this is a fun one to listen to because he straight-up performs the hell out of the whole book. He's not reading it, he's not talking to you, he's performing it. If you'd like to be boomed at for 13 hours, hearing stories about Yorkshire, theatre school, Peter O'Toole, and beloved sci-fi films, get ahold of this baby.