Just a Geek - Unflinchingly honest tales of the search for life, love, and fulfilment beyond the Starship Enterprise (Wil Wheaton)

Just a Geek - Unflinchingly honest tales of the search for life, love, and fulfilment beyond the Starship Enterprise

Wil Wheaton

Blurb: Just a Geek is the story of how Wil Wheaton faced down his constant companion, the ghost he calls 'Prove to Everyone That Quitting Star Trek Wasn't A Mistake.' The key to banishing that ghost turned out to be the blog that he launched in 2001 at wilwheaton.net. On his blog, Wil shared - with stunning and fearless honesty - his real life: the struggles of being a working-class actor, the joys of being married and raising two stepchildren, and the experience of growing up on the Starship Enterprise.

Just a Geek fleshes out the stories that started on the blog. Join Wil as he auditions for new shows, relives his past at Star Trek conventions, or just hangs out in his living room. Both funny and poignant, the book chronicles Wil's journey to rediscover himself and come to terms with what it means to be famous, or, ironically, famous for having previously been famous.

ISBN: 9780596806316 (Paperback)

Year: 2004

Publisher: O'Reilly

Pages: 269 (Non-Fiction)

Links

1. Buy from Amazon

2. Epinions page on the book

3. Google books page

4. Wikipedia page for the book

5. Wil's blog

Searching for Schindler (Tom Keneally)

Searching for Schindler

Tom Keneally

Blurb: A memoir of Tom's journey around the world to discover the complete story of Oskar Schindler and those on his now-famous list.

In 1980, Tom Keneally walked into a store in Beverly Hills owned by Polish Jew Leopold Pfefferberg Page to buy a new briefcase. For the next few years, Tom's life was taken over by this charismatic and driven man, known as Poldek, and the story of his saviour, the ambiguous hero Oskar Schindler.

Inspired by Poldek's vision, Tom's 1982 novel, Schindler's Ark, won the Booker Prize and ultimately became the Oscar-award-winning film Schindler's List.

Tom and Poldek travelled across the US, Germany, Israel, Austria and Poland, interviewing survivors and discovering their extraordinary stories. Searching for Schindler is very much Tom's journey; he reflects on his early days as a successful but less than confident writer, and how this book, the film it became and the people he met, changed his and his family's lives forever.

Filled with stories of Poldek, Steven Spielberg, Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes and many other fascinating characters, Searching for Schindler gives us a unique insight into the wonderful, warm, thinking, compassionate and very funny man that is Tom Keneally.

ISBN: 9781741666151 (Paperback)

Year: 2007

Publisher: Vintage Books

Pages: 304 (Non-Fiction)

Links

1. Review from The Independent

2. Buy from Amazon

3. Google books page

4. Author's Wikipedia page

5. Review from The Times