The Bassoon King: My Life in Art, Faith, and Idiocy By Rainn Wilson

I'm familiar with Rainn's work so wanted to love thisbut just didn't. The writing style was overly self indulgent and I didn't want to read on past chapter 1 so I returned it :( 320 pages A very funny, self deprecating, humble autobiography. The chapters about The Office I found to be too brief and surprisingly lightly detailed, but in a cool way that is quite original. Very interesting to read about his religion 320 pages I'm not sure what I was exactly expecting when I started reading this but it is an amazing insight into the mind of Rainn Wilson funny and sad all in one. Fantastic. 320 pages Bought as a gift for my partner. She loves Rainn Wilson and advises his book lives up to his humorous and quirky standards! 320 pages Perhaps best known for playing Dwight Schrute, Wilson tells his own story, explaining how he came up with his incredibly unique sense of humour and perspective on life. ‘Bone numbingly nerdy before there was even a modicum of cool attached to the word’, this 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.I wasn’t a fan of Wilson until the lockdown, when I decided to finally get round to watching “The Office US” and I fell in love with both the programme and the core cast. Unlike Ellie Kemper’s memoir, this held my attention from the start and made me laugh, think and feel sorry for him. Told with candour and a lot of wit, it details his difficult childhood, his struggles to get accepted as an actor and then how he dealt with success. Always amusing, pleasantly sarcastic and with definite opinions, this reveals Wilson as a principled man who enjoys his creativity and adores his wife and child, valuing friendships he’s made along the way and thankful for everything that he’s achieved. Definitely worth a read, I’d very much recommend this. 320 pages

Rainn Wilson ✓ 5 review

Rainn Wilsons 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. 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 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 Bah faith he grew up in. The Bassoon King: My Life in Art, Faith, and Idiocy