Product Description

‘My life is a series of embarrassing incidents strung together by telling people about those embarrassing incidents.’

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1179 in Books
• Published on: 2007-11-15
• Released on: 2007-11-15
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 352 pages

Review

‘The most talented stand-up comedian to emerge in Britain this decade, Brand combines Eddie Izzard’s rare ability to carry a whole crowd along on an audacious flight of comic fancy with the carnal magnetism of the young George Best. Audiences leave a Brand performance not just entertained but actively debauched by his catalogue of erotic misadventure.’

Synopsis
'My life is a series of embarrassing incidents strung together by telling people about those embarrassing incidents.'Russell Brand's scandalous reminiscences were always going to have a literary flavour. But nothing you've heard him say on stage, radio or TV can prepare you for the impact of this beautifully written memoir. From his troubled childhood in Essex and his addictions to drink, drugs and sex, to his giddy rise through the world of entertainment, this is not simply a story of fame but of redemption, achingly and hilariously honest throughout.

About the Author
Russell Brand is a comedian, journalist, TV and radio presenter and actor. He has won numerous awards including Time Out's Comedian of the Year, Best Newcomer at the British Comedy Awards, Best TV Performer at the Broadcasting Press Guild Awards, Most Stylish Man at GQ's Men of the Year Awards and the Sun's Shagger of the Year.

Customer Reviews

An interesting read, unfortunately devoid of any kind of actual shame which, believe me is necessary...
I bought this book due to the brilliant reviews it received, and the fact that I find Russell Brand funny. Having read 'My Booky Wook', I don't trust the people who reviewed it as much as I did, or find him as funny. Or want to. He has a very witty way of presenting events from his very interesting life; however, I did find myself quite angry at the hilarious and quirky manner in which he told stories which he really should be horrified to admit to. I don't care about the substance abuse, I don't care about the occasions in which he ruined his career - what I object to is his attitude towards women, more importantly, prostitutes. There is one sentence in the book which skirts over how he feels about prostitution now, when in fact, the countless entertaining stories of him having sex with prostitutes necessitated a lot more shame, guilt and self reflection than was provided. Also, I do feel sad that he still regards his dad as a man to impress. It seems to me that his dad is responsible for most of his warped development into adulthood. Unfortunately, I still believe that he is an intelligent man. An intelligent man who doesn't think too much of sleeping with prostitutes. Now, that is depressing.

Couldn't put it down
If you can get over the fact that this is at heart a book about a man complaining that he has had meaningless sex with too many gorgeous young women, this is actually a fantastic book. Extremely easy to read, at times insightful, at othertimes laugh out loud funny. Always entertaining.

Oh dear, not quite the small screen icon
If you want to read an autobiography which contains all the juicy bits about celebrities and the world of television and radio...don't bother reading this.

However, if you want to hear someone spouting on about how much heroin they took, how many times they exposed themselves, how they are demanding of the centre-of-attention and how badly they treated everyone they knew then this IS the book for you.

From what I saw in this book, RB deserves no sympathy. The whole tome is a list of how people tried to help and how he let everyone down for almost the whole book. Only in the last thirty/forty or so pages does he appear to become a human being (but only for page 30, 29 and 28). From end-of-book minus 27 pages (ish) he mostly name-drops.

To be honest, I'd rather I just saw him on the telly being funny now, because his past is not funny, not appealing, and really, you just want to flush him away, book and all.

He has done himself no favours with this. Read it and weep....for your wasted money.