Many people related to his candor, finding a positive ally in a world filled with negativity and doubt. Especially on the internet, where Wheaton found a new career as a writer. He experiences the irony of having to be standoffish or mean to Trek fans for the sake of his own psychological health. Sometimes it's sad, like stories about having to sell autographed memorabilia to pay bills. It's often hilarious, like the first time he meets William Shatner.
Just a Geek chronicles Wheaton's rise and fall. He rebooted his life a blogger and he became the inadvertent king of the nerds. Conflict with the producers caused Wheaton to leave the show in the middle of the series. Perhaps he should have been quivering with fear? Old school fans hated his character. Wheaton was a hardcore geek and his adolescent self quivered with glee at the thought of manning a new and improved Enterprise. From his times on the Enterprise to his struggles with depression to his starting a family and finding his passion-writing-Wil Wheaton is someone whose life is both a cautionary tale and a story of finding one’s true purpose that should resonate with fans and aspiring artists alike.At age fifteen, Wil Wheaton landed his dream job as Ensign Wesley Crusher on Star Trek The Next Generation. The result is an incredibly raw and honest memoir, in which Wil opens up about his life, about falling in love, about coming to grips with his past work, choices, and family, and finding fulfillment in the new phases of his career. In Still Just a Geek, Wil revisits his 2004 collection of blog posts, Just a Geek, filled with insightful and often laugh-out-loud annotated comments, additional later writings, and all new material written for this publication.
He still blogs, and now has an enormous following on social media with well over 3 million followers. Yet, much to his surprise, people were reading. Believing himself to have fallen victim to the curse of the child actor, Wil felt relegated to the convention circuit, and didn’t expect many would want to read about his random experiences and personal philosophies. Celebrated actor, personality, and all-around nerd, Wil Wheaton updates his memoir of collected blog posts with all new material and annotations as he reexamines one of the most interesting lives in Hollywood and fandom-and now for the first time in audio, narrated by Wil himself!įrom starring in Stand by Me to playing Wesley Crusher on Star Trek: The Next Generation to playing himself, in his second (third?) iconic role of Evil Wil Wheaton in The Big Bang Theory, to becoming a social media supernova, Wil Wheaton has charted a career course unlike anyone else, and has emerged as one of the most popular and well respected names in science fiction, fantasy and pop culture.īack in 2001, Wil began blogging on.
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