RUSSELL BRAND - MY BOOKY WOOK (My Booky Wook - Russell Brand)

Member Name: tuttgarm

Product:	My Booky Wook - Russell Brand
Date:	01/07/09 (23 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Humourous stories

Disadvantages: Could be more uplifting

Russell's Brand's first autiobiography My Booky Wook is an amusing tale of an addict out of control.
Unfortunantly the book was released before the ManuelGate saga. The book realy concentrates on Brand's life before he became a household name. The book is four hundred pages long split in to 4 sections and thirty-two chapters.
There is no doubt reading the book that it sounds as if Brand is actually reading it to you with his cockney-victorian voice. There are many brilliant anecdotes including Brand having to decide what member of Eternal to date.
However as the book is abut Brand's addiction to drugs and then sex it is difficult to decide whether to laugh or not. The stories of Brand self-harming and spening part of his life with a mouse living in his hair are quirky. The protester in him meant he got in trouble with the police often.
Reading the book it is obvious that the lack of a father figure early on in his life scarred him. The story of his Dad taking him abroad to see hookers is creepy. However the love for his mother is really heartwarming to read particularly when she's diagonised with cancer.
I would have liked Brand to have emphasises more in the book that for all his mistakes he turned his life around as this would have made the book more uplifting.
The book has lots of photos and random letters of Brand's life included.
My Booky Wook is a quirky, humourous read in to the life of Russell Brand.

Summary: A quirky look at Russell Brand