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Still Just a Geek

By: Wil Wheaton
Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
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 Celebrated actor, personality, and all-around nerd Wil Wheaton updates his memoir of collected blog posts with all new material and annotations as he reexamines one of the most interesting lives in Hollywood and fandom!

Wil Wheaton grew up.

Ideally, this is what everyone does. But most of us don’t do it in front of millions of people. Wil was a very famous kid – right up until he wasn’t. After that, he wasn’t sure who he was at all.

So, in 2001, he started a blog. It was less about being a famous child than about being a not-so-famous grownup. He wrote about his pets and his hobbies, punk rock and parenting, board games and birthdays and (most importantly) burritos.

He thought he was writing for an audience of one: himself. To be fair, he was only off by about 3 million people. 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.

Equal 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.

©2022 Wil Wheaton (P)2022 HarperCollins Publishers Entertainment & Celebrities Geeky Celebrity Funny Comedy
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Wil Wheaton narrates his story with passion and raw emotion. I can't imagine how hard it would have been to talk about some parts. This is a long listen but thoroughly worth it. Congratulations Wil.

Honesty

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From the movies, tv shows, book narrations. Wil can be recognised from any and all.
Loved Wil in Stand by me and Toy soldiers.
Then found him again in b.b.t. and he hooked me in listening to Ready player one.
I found Still Just a Geek amazing.
Somethings I will never experience in my life like being a celebrity. Somethings I can say I have experienced, anxiety and depression.
This book is "cool" in how Wil expresses his telling of the stories.
The times I could feel the emotion where I want to throw a high five, give a supportive hug or a shoulder to cry on.
The day of listening flew. Some books take me a month to listen to. This I finished in 5 days.
Wil has delivered an epic read.

Wil Wheaton the must read geek

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Wil Wheaton has produced a masterpiece of personal tragedy, courage and growth. His brutal honesty and fantastic sense of humour is aided by his fantastic reading voice and raw emotion. 110% recommended. I'll listen again. And probably again.

Make it so.

Autobiography of an amazing human being

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I’ve seen the Star Trek movies and enjoyed Discovery when it was still available on Netflix but I became a Star Trek TV fan quite late (watching all of TNG, Voyager etc. for the first time during the pandemic). As such, I was always aware that Wil Wheaton was on TNG but I knew him more from his stints on Eureka, The Guild, The Big Bang Theory etc. and especially as a writer of beautiful and funny essays and his board game playing on YouTube. I do not usually read autobiographies or memoir type books but having heard some of Wil’s essays gave the description for the audiobook a read and listened to the free excerpt and decided to give the audiobook a go. I am not disappointed at all! Wil gives a very earnest and heartfelt reading of this book and the annotations and additions to Just a Geek are insightful, funny, and sometimes heard to listen to. I was with Wil all the way from his recounting of stories of Stand by Me and TNG to his personal life and familial struggles and abuse. I highly recommend
this audiobook to anyone, not just the geeks!

Funny, heartfelt and heartbreaking!

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Entertaining, soul bearing and insightful. I am going to get my 14 yr old nephew to listen, he is being raised by his Aunt (me!) and I think he will benefit from and feel like a kindred spirit to Just a Geek!

Brilliant

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