My Booky Wook

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My Booky Wook

Cover of the hardback edition
Author Russell Brand
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Genre(s) Memoir
Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
Publication date 15 November 2007
Media type Print (hardcover, paperback)
Pages 352
ISBN ISBN 978-0340936153 (hardcover)
ISBN 978-0340936177 (paperback)

My Booky Wook is a memoir, written by English comedian and actor Russell Brand, published in 2007 by Hodder & Stoughton.

Contents

[edit] Plot summary

This warts and all account of Brand's life follows, in vivid detail, the star's life from his troubled childhood in Gray's End Close, Essex to his first taste for fame in Stage School up to his turbulent drug addiction and his triumphant rise to fame from RE:Brand to Big Brother's Big Mouth to Hollywood...

[edit] Dedication

For my mum,
the most important woman in my life,
this book is dedicated to you.
Now for God's sake don't read it

[edit] Chapters

My Booky Wook is divided into four sections. The title itself is a citation from A Clockwork Orange; Brand explained the reference during his appearance on Have I Got News For You in December 2007.

[edit] Part I

  1. April Fool
  2. Umbilical Noose
  3. Shame Innit?
  4. Fledging Hospice
  5. 'Diddle-Di-Diddle-Di'
  6. How Christmas Should Feel
  7. One McAvennie
  8. I've Got a Bone to Pick with You
  9. Teacher's Whisky
  10. 'Boobaloo'
  11. Say Hello to the Bad Guy

[edit] Part II

  1. The Eternal Dilemma
  2. Body Mist
  3. Ying Yang
  4. Click, Clack, Click, Clack
  5. 'Wop Out a Bit of Acting'
  6. The Stranger
  7. Is This a Cash Card I See Before Me?
  8. 'Do You Want Drama?'

[edit] Part III

  1. Dagenham Is Not Damascus
  2. Don't Die of Ignorance
  3. Firing Minors
  4. Down Among the Have-Nots
  5. First-Class Twit
  6. Let's Not Tell Our Mums
  7. You're a Diamond
  8. Call Me Ishmael. Or Isimir. Or Something...

[edit] Part IV

  1. Mustafa Skagfix
  2. A Gentleman with a Bike
  3. Out of the Game
  4. Hare Krishna Morrisey
  5. And Then Three Come at Once

[edit] Critical reception

The book gained a mixed reception[1] .The Observer commented that "Russell Brand's gleeful tale of drugs and debauchery in My Booky Wook puts most other celebrity memoirs to shame."[2].

The book won the Biography of the year 2008 at the British Book Awards.[3]

[edit] Film adaptation

Brand planned to star as himself in a film adaptation of the book, originally scheduled to be filmed by British director Michael Winterbottom at the end of 2008 or early in 2009.[4] The project has since been shelved by Brand, who did not want American audiences to learn of his "chequered past" without reading the book first.[5]

[edit] Sales

The book has sold over 500,000 copies since it was released.[6]

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ My Booky Wook by Russell Brand - new book reviews on inthenews.co.uk
  2. ^ Review: My Booky Wook by Russell Brand | By genre | Guardian Unlimited Books
  3. ^ 2008 best biography
  4. ^ Brand turns 'Booky Wook' into film
  5. ^ Hilton, Beth. "Brand scraps "Booky Wook" film", Digital Spy, 2008-05-31. Retrieved on 2008-05-31. 
  6. ^ Brand turns 'Booky Wook' into film

[edit] External links

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Russell Brand
Presenting
Film
St Trinian's (2007)  · Penelope (2008)  · Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)  · Bedtime Stories (2008)  · Get Him to the Greek (2009)
Radio
The Russell Brand Show (2006–present)
Literature
My Booky Wook (2007)  · Irons in the Fire (2007)
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