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Loading... The Happiest Days of Our Livesby Wil Wheaton
   None No current Talk conversations about this book.   ) avonar | May 27, 2020 |  Picture this: you take your kids out to a fast food joint for an ice cream. One of them says something mildly amusing (I am being generous here) and you flirt with the cashier a little. The end. The other half of the stories are mostly about his incredibly first-world childhood problems, like that one day when his mom took him to the toy store and he could not for the life of him decide which of the $1.99 Star Wars toys to get. Although I realize this book is just a collection of blog posts, the stories are just too boring to be worth of anyone who is not a major Wheaton fanboy's time. This is nothing like Just a Geek which is an honest, pour-out-your-heart autobiography in which Wil critically examines his own life and the Hollywood industry. If you collected ten people off the street and told them to write a couple of stories about their family, I wager about eight of them would be more interesting than this. Too bad, because Wil Wheaton is actually a good writer and he shows flashes of it in The Happiest Days, too. But even a very good writer can't make a completely boring story interesting. Fortunately, this is a pretty short collection. (  ) matija2019 | Jan 8, 2019 | In stories like the one where he throws a tantrum about accidentally not saving his video game/his stepson touching his D&D dice (for real, Wil? You're a grown man) or the one where he "calls out" his parents for not confronting his fourth grade teacher and causing a huge scene when she told him off unfairly (way to hold a grudge), he just comes across as very petty and kind of a douche. But whatever, if you want to read some not very interesting anecdotes about a guy you don't know, this is the book for you! ( ) plumtingz | Dec 14, 2017 |  ) Razinha | May 23, 2017 |  ) TheMadTurtle | Apr 3, 2015 | no reviews | add a review
Biography & Autobiography.
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HTML: Readers of Wil Wheaton's website know he is a masterful teller of elegant stories about his life. Building on the critical success of Dancing Barefoot and Just a Geek, he has collected more of his own favorite stories in his third book, The Happiest Days of Our Lives. These are the stories Wil loves to tellā??the ones closest to his heart: stories about being a huge geek, about passing his geeky hobbies and values along to his own children, and about what it meant to grow up in the '70s and come of age in the '80s as part of the video game/D&D/BBS/Star Wars figures generation. Within the pages of The Happiest Days of Our Lives, you will find: "The Butterfly Tree": How one Back to School night continues to shape Wil's sense of social justice, thirty years later "Blue Light Special": The greatest challenge a ten-year-old could face in 1982: save his allowance, or buy Star Wars figures? "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Geek": Why fantasy role-playing games are such an important part of Wil's pastā??and his present "The Big Goodbye": A visit to Paramount gives Wheaton a second chance to say farewell to Star Trek ... properly, this time "Let Go": A moving eulogy for a beloved friend In all of these tales, Wheaton brings the listener into the raw heart of the story, holding nothing back. You are invited to join him on a journey through The Happiest Days of Our Lives No library descriptions found. |
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