the bassoon king: my life in art, faith, and idiocy audible <p>rainn wilson’s memoir about growing up geeky and finally finding his place in comedy, faith, and life.</p> <p>for nine seasons rainn wilson played dwight schrute, everyone's favorite work nemesis and beet farmer. viewers of <i>the office</i> fell in love with the character and grew to love the actor who played him even more. rainn founded a website and media company, soulpancake, that eventually became a best-selling 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 more than four million followers.</p> <p>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”. <i>the bassoon king</i> 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 <i>the office</i>, and finally, wilson's achievement of success and satisfaction, both in his career and spiritually, reconnecting with the artistic and creative values of the bahá’í faith he grew up in.</p>