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.