Nerd Do Well by Simon Pegg

Nerd Do Well

by Simon Pegg

Zombies in North London, death cults in the West Country, the engineering deck of the Enterprise: Simon Pegg has been ploughing some bizarre furrows in recent times. Having blasted onto the small screens with his now legendary sitcom Spaced, his rise to nation's favourite son status has been mercurial, meteoric, megatronnic, but mostly just plain great.

From his childhood (and subsequently adult) obsession with Star Wars, his often passionate friendship with Nick Frost, and his forays into stand-up which began with his regular Monday morning slot in front of his 12-year-old classmates, this is a joyous tale of a homegrown superstar and a local boy made good.

Reviewed by Heather on

2 of 5 stars

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I wanted to love this book. Sadly it spends way too much time on his childhood and almost nothing on his adult life. Childhood just isn't an interesting time in most people's lifes.

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