
The Bassoon King
My Life in Art, Faith, and Idiocy
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Narrated by:
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Rainn Wilson
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Rainn Wilson
About this listen
Rainn Wilson's memoir about growing up geeky and finally finding his place in comedy, faith, and life.
For nine seasons Rainn Wilson played Dwight Schrute, everyone's favorite work nemesis and beet farmer. Viewers of The Office fell in love with the character and grew to love the actor who played him even more. Rainn founded a website and media company, SoulPancake, that eventually became a bestselling book of the same name. He also started a hilarious Twitter feed (sample tweet: "I'm not on Facebook" is the new "I don't even own a TV") that now has more than four million followers.
Now, he's ready to tell his own story and explain how he came up with his incredibly unique sense of humor and perspective on life. He explains how he grew up "bone-numbingly nerdy before there was even a modicum of cool attached to the word." The Bassoon King chronicles his journey from nerd to drama geek ("the highest rung on the vast, pimply ladder of high school losers"), his years of mild debauchery and struggles as a young actor in New York, his many adventures and insights about The Office, and finally, Wilson's achievement of success and satisfaction, both in his career and spiritually, reconnecting with the artistic and creative values of the Bahá'í faith he grew up in.
©2015 Rainn Wilson (P)2015 Penguin AudioCritic reviews
"Rainn Wilson narrates his own story with such perfection that the only disappointment is the fact that it ends. The memoir is smart, inspirational, and funny, so the addition of Wilson's performance adds delectable icing to a tasty cake." (AudioFile)
"Quirky, witty, literate." (Washington Post)
"Rainn Wilson's memoir captures essence of his offbeat humor." (Chicago Sun-Times)
Wonderful
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Funny, ear opening and an honest take on life
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Wonderful!
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Reframing spirituality stereotypes
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Fave
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Unexpected At Points But Enjoyable
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a must read!
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Maybe it’s just an actor thing, but I found him quite pretentious a lot of the time, maybe he’s right and it’s what makes a good actor but to me it came off as pretentious and a bit too ‘I’m an ARTIST who is CREATIVE don’t you know...’.
I also thought it got a bit too bogged down in spirituality, it’s obviously something that’s very important to him but started to get a bit preachy in places. You know those deep conversations you had with friends as a teenager when you were both drunk? And how in the sober light of day you think oh god what a load of b*llocks I was talking last night? He comes across as never having that realisation.
Overall disappointed because I do enjoy his work and he seems like a really nice guy, I just wouldn’t want to be stuck in a conversation with him.
Nice guy but a bit pretentious
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Absolutely beautiful
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Honest, funny and thought provoking
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