
Still Just a Geek
An Annotated Memoir
Author: Wil Wheaton
Narrator: Wil Wheaton, Neil Gaiman
Unabridged: 23 hr 51 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: William Morrow
Published: 04/12/2022

Author: Wil Wheaton
Narrator: Wil Wheaton, Neil Gaiman
Unabridged: 23 hr 51 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: William Morrow
Published: 04/12/2022
Wil Wheaton is a highly acclaimed producer, narrator, and actor who has appeared in dozens of films and TV series. Most recently, he played a fictionalized version of himself on CBS's The Big Bang Theory, one of the most highly rated and watched sitcoms of the last decade. An accomplished voice actor, Wil has lent his talents to many animated series, including Family Guy, Teen Titans, Guardians of the Galaxy, and Batman: The Brave and the Bold. His audiobook narration of Ernest Cline's Ready Player One debuted at number one on the New York Times bestseller list and was one of Goodreads's 10 of the Best Narrator and Audiobook Pairings of All Time. He has also lent his voice to titles by John Scalzi, Randall Monroe, Andy Weir, and Joe Hill. When he isn't acting, narrating, or podcasting, Wil is writing. A lot. He lives in Los Angeles with his badass, irrepressible wife, Anne; one rescue dog (RIP Seamus); one cat; and two vintage arcade cabinets. If you're not a robot, you can reach him at wil@wilwheaton.net.
Neil Gaiman is the New York Times bestselling and multi-award winning author and creator of many beloved books, graphic novels, short stories, film, television and theatre for all ages. He is the recipient of the Newbery and Carnegie Medals, and many Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, and Will Eisner Awards. Neil has adapted many of his works to television series, including Good Omens (co-written with Terry Pratchett) and The Sandman. He is a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency UNHCR and Professor in the Arts at Bard College. For a lot more about his work, please visit: https://www.neilgaiman.com/
I never read Just a Geek and I never watched Star Trek, but I became familiar with Wheaton through Big Bang Theory and other geeky endeavors. I found his original writing touching, funny, and bittersweet, and his annotations made it that much better. He calls himself out for problematic language and......more
As an academic and a writer, I understand all too well Wheaton's lifelong wrestling match with imposter syndrome. He bares his soul in this memoir--get the audiobook, it's so, so well narrated--and what I love is that he is deeply aware of his own imperfections. Unlike most celebrities who want to p......more
Rec. by: Version 1.0 Rec. for: Works in progress "I never should have knocked." —Lucas Sinclair, Stranger Things, S4E9. There are some celebrity autobiographies that were obviously written by someone else—sanitized, ersatz works, "as told to" the real writer. This is not that. Wil Wheaton's annotated,......more
4/13/2022 Full review tk (maybe even later today!) at TheFrumiousConsortium.net. 4/13/2022 I make it a habit of avoiding memoirs published by men in their 30s, so never got around to reading Wil Wheaton's Just A Geek, despite it seeming squarely in my wheelhouse. Reading this annotated version drove......more
In a follow up to his memoir, Just a Geek, Wheaton takes what was already unreadable drivel, and recreates it into a manual for the PC police. While his candor about mental health and the challenges he has faced in life is refreshing, the overt, in-your-face "woke-ness" of the text gives credence to......more