My Booky Wook by Russell Brand

What a change from my last completed book of 2007 and my first completed book of 2008! Russell Brand's life so far couldn't really be further from John Pridmore's! Unless of course you include the fact that they were both involved with drugs at one stage in their life.

My Booky Wook is a very well written and interesting book - I read it very quickly, and enjoyed it. Had a long discussion about it with H on the way south yesterday. It definitely starts off well, and Brand's voice is very clearly heard, but the language seems to become flatter towards the end, although that could simply be because we are used to the style by then. One thing I noticed was that there seems to be very little introspection of his circumstances, although they are well described, and the reader can see the connections between different events in his life without the need for much reflection on Brand's part. I suppose writing the book in itself is the reflection.

One of the good things about the book was that it clearly was not one of those ghost written autobiographies, which can be very interesting and informative, but can be quite flat in tone. This seemed to be very obviously Brand's book.

Brand's actual life has been drug and sex filled, so it's not exactly a book to read if you want to be inspired in an uplifting type of way, but it is a good read and I would recommend it.