Nerd Do Well

I listened to the audiobook, which has the fun quality of feeling like you are having a friendly conversation with Simon himself. This book was wonderful. Simon Pegg is brilliant and insightful. He weaves together his life into a narrative that twists back and forth through the actual chronological reality of his story. My only real complaint was it was too short! I wanted to know more, especially about him and Nick Frost.

75% of the book is on his life in school, showing all the synchronisity between who/where he was then and where he is today. I appreciated his honest sharing of his experience although I got a bit uncomfortable on ‘to much information' areas. I love that he is just as geeky as me as well as some of the deep thinking he does; I sure don't do that so “You go Simon!”

I dropped out completing the book first because I kept getting lost in the timelines. He did warn me in his introduction. Second, I was looking for the book to be touching into areas along his life rather than focusing heavily in his first 20 years or so.

I was looking forward to reading this book ever since I heard about it a couple of years ago, because I really enjoyed Mr. Pegg's performances in the newest Star Trek movie series as well as the Mission: Impossible movie series. I should have stuck to those sources of entertainment, and I shall from now on.

This book was utterly disappointing. It was filled with sexual content (including crudity and perversion) and bad language (excessive).

The saddest part, though, the portion that made my heart ache the most, was when Mr. Pegg inferred he no longer believes in God, that he believes only children do such a thing. Faith in God might be “childlike,” but Jesus did say in Matthew 18:3 that “unless you are converted and become as little children, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven.” Childlike faith is exactly what believing in God is all about.

Content: profanity (excessive, English; a few in French), expletives (excessive), crude sexual terms and situations (graphic and excessive), sexual innuendo (excessive), sexual perversion (excessive), derogatory terms, mislabeled “right-wing” comment, graphic violence, psychic activity mentioned, alcohol, tobacco, drugs