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My Booky Wook (2007) (edit title/settings)

A Memoir of Sex, Drugs, and Stand-Up

by Brand, Russell (Author) (edit contributors)

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Russell Brand learned early on to make a joke of fear and failure. From a troubled childhood in industrial Essex, England, to his descent into addictions to alcohol, drugs and sex in the seamy underbelly of London, Brand has seen his share of both and miraculously lived to tell the tale. In My... read more

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  • “I really craved the company of animals- the wordless simplicity of it. Even now, with my cat Morrissey, I cherish the moments that I'm absolutely alone with him, and the unrecorded tenderness that no one will ever know of- the simplicity of "Oh, I'm just here, with this cat." I don't even feed him that much any more, 'cos Lynne, the housekeeper, does that now. But he seems to want something from me that isn't food, and perhaps that thing is love.”
    Chelsey Smith
  • “I'm sure when God was selecting Jesus for his mission to redeem the people of Earth he didn't just hurl a potato out of his office window shouting, "Whomever this spud may strike, boy, have I got a job for you!”
    Chelsey Smith
  • “Perhaps for all of us there is a moment that epitomizes our lives- a moment when you're more yourself than at any other time, an instant of absolute self-realization.”
  • “Well, this all seems like a bit of a storm in a teacup.”
    Chelsey Smith
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  • For me happiness occurs arbitrarily: a moment of eye contact on a bus, where all at once you fall in love; or a frozen second in a park where it’s enough that there are trees in the world.
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  • Perhaps for all of us there is a moment that epitomises our lives – a moment when you’re more yourself than at any other time, an instant of absolute self-realisation.
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  • life is a malevolent force, which seeks to destroy you, and you have to struggle with it. Only those who are hard enough will succeed. Most people get crushed, but if you fight, in the end life will go, ‘Fucking hell. This one’s serious. Let him through.’
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  • And if you don’t want to become a butcher (and why would you?), you’re going to have to cut right through to the bare bones of your own character in the hope of finding out who you really are. Which bloody hurts.
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  • In the words of Morrissey – I can smile about it now, but at the time it was terrible.
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  • If you strip away self-effacement, charm and the spirit of mischief – qualities that make determination and ambition tolerable – you’re left with a right arsehole.
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  • Not without good reason do the French describe an orgasm as a ‘little death’.
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  • You know when people are so utterly dull that you feel yourself severing the cord that connects you to their reality and floating away from their tedium like helium?
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  • The need to find out what will happen if I don’t relent or moderate my actions has been a constant source of difficulty and discomfort in my life.
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  • (People do this a lot. They don’t seem to realise that the future is just like now, but in a little while, so they say they’re going to do things in anticipation of some kind of seismic shift in their worldview that never actually materialises. But everything’s not going to be made of leather, the world won’t stink of sherbet. Tomorrow is not some mythical kingdom where you’ll grow butterfly wings and be able to talk to the animals – you’ll basically feel pretty much the same way you do at the moment.)
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First Sentence edit see section history

On the morning of April Fools' Day, 2005, I woke up in a sexual addiction treatment center in a suburb of Philadelphia.

Table of Contents edit see section history

Part I:
1) April Fool
2) Umbilical Noose
3) Shame Innit?
4) Fledgling Hospice
5) "Diddle-Di-Diddle-Di"
6) How Christmas Should Feel
7) One McAvennie
8) I've Got a Bone to Pick with You
9) Teacher's Whiskey
10)"Boobaloo"
11) Say Hello to the Bad Guy

Part II:
12) The Eternal Dilemma
13) Body Mist
14) Ying Yang
15) Click, Clack, Click, Clack
16) "Wop Out a Bit of Acting"
17) The Stranger
18) Is This a Cash Card I See before Me?
19) "Do You Want a Drama?"

Part III:
20) Dagenham Is Not Damascus
21) Don't Die of Ignorance
22) Firing Minors
23) Down Among the Have-Nots
24) First-Class Twit
25) Let's Not Tell Our Mums
26) You're a Diamond
27) Call Me Ishmael. Or Isimir. Or Something

Part IV:
28) Mustafa Skagfix
29) A Gentleman with a Bike
30) Out of the Game
31) Hare Krishna Morrissey
32) And Then Three Come at Once

Acknowledgements
Photographic Acknowledgements
Abot the Author

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This is book 6 of 7 in Tesco Biography of the Year. (community list)
This is book 75 of 100 in Top 100 Books That Defined The Noughties (Telegraph). (authoritative list)

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  1. Brand, Russell (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Hodder
Country: United States
Publication Date: 2007
ISBN: 0340936150
Page Count: 353

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