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Still Just a Geek
- Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
- Length: 23 hrs and 50 mins
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Publisher's Summary
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.
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- Anonymous User
- 08-10-2022
Honest, courageous and brilliantly raw
Loved this so much. Thanks Wil for sharing everything with such gusto and bravery, and for all the sneaky Monty Python references.
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- Anonymous User
- 17-05-2022
Wil Wheaton the must read geek
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.
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- Stephen McCracken
- 02-02-2023
Autobiography of an amazing human being
Wil Wheaton has produced a masterpiece of personal tragedy, corage 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.
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- Amanda
- 06-10-2022
Real, raw & relatable
This brought me to tears towards the end. I felt seen.
It's heavy. It's heartbreaking. It hits home. Even though my experiences in life have been skinned differently, the core aspects are still there. We're all human (unfortunately) and if more people could learn to treat others as such, the world would be a nicer and safer place. It's difficult enough to figure out who you are and build who you want to be, without people trying to control you, hurt you, and bring you down. So glad Wil found himself and the key people who helped him do so, like Anne (she's great all on her own too, I have so much love for her and I don't even know her personally).
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- Coen
- 06-04-2023
Lovely to hear of a child hood icon
Great to hear from a child hood icon. Stort a little confusing sometimes with read out footnotes. Amazing voice and great reading style.
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- Alex Norton
- 10-01-2024
Humans are complex creatures
This is a really touching insight into the prolonged troubles of an abused childhood actor. I want to preface this by saying I love Wil, love his work and I could honestly listen to him read out of a phone book, but so many of the annotations in this book are (often quite justifiable) apologies for offensive or inconsiderate things his past self has said, and yet he goes on to say other very dismissive, absolutist or inconsiderate things, such as saying all spirituality is utter hokum, which I'm sure many who base a lot of their life around it would be quite offended to hear, or dismissing the work of author Chuck Palaniuk as being the realm of teenage toxic masculinity, which is a horrendous oversight of the work of a talented and troubled author. It's just very odd that Wil can't seem to pick a lane here, which makes the constant apologies seem less sincere and just a bit confusing. Either way, this is well worth the read, I was so sorry to hear of the way his family treated him, and he deserves better. Still one of the dude's biggest fans, and his work on himself through introspection and great effort is commendable. I'm sure that journey isn't over.
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- GS
- 22-01-2024
A bit long and a bit too hard on himself
Will, mate, I’m glad you’re doing better.
There is a lot of self flagellation in this book and honestly it’s excessive. Everyone’s been a kid and young and dumb. You had a heap of extra pressure and abusive parents on top. I hope you can cut yourself more slack as you go forward.
A good story but a bit more editing down would have been worthwhile.
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- Anonymous User
- 08-05-2022
Funny, heartfelt and heartbreaking!
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!
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- Kaye
- 11-06-2022
Brilliant
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!
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- Anonymous User
- 12-07-2022
Timeless
Thanks!!!! COOL🤦♂️
Just keep being you
We will keep cheering for you🖖🖖 looking forward to what’s next Mr Wheaton
Long time fan and now of stuff I didn’t know you had done🤙🤙🤙🤙
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