Just a geek
Subtitle: unflinchingly honest tales of the search for life, love, and fulfillment beyond the Starship Enterprise
By: Wil Wheaton with a foreword by Neil Gaiman.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: O'Reilly
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Sebastopol, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
Subjects: Wheaton, Wil; Actors -- United States -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: "The story begins in the summer of 2000. When asked by a waitress, "Didn't you used to be an actor?" Wil Wheaton realized that he'd become what he'd always feared: "I was a has-been. I 'used to be an actor' when I was a kid!" In the spotlight for nearly his entire childhood, Will starred in the movie Stand By Me at the tender age of 12 and grew up on television as Wesley Crusher on Star Trek: The Next Generation. But after Star Trek, the roles he expected didn't materialize, leaving Will to grapple with the big questions: could he avoid the pitfalls that typically befall a child star, create a real life, and define success on his own terms?" "Just a Geek is the story of how Wil faced down his constant companion, the ghost he calls "Prove To Everyone That Quitting Star Trek Wasn't A Mistake." The key to banishing that ghost turned out to be a weblog, or online journal, that he launched in 2001 at wilwheaton.net On his weblog, Wil shared his real life: the struggles of being a working-class actor, the joys of being married and raising two step-children, and the experience of growing up on the Starship Enterprise. The kid actor was now a writer too, with an audience of nearly a million readers a month." "Not the usual celebrity biography, Just a Geek fleshes out the stories that started on the weblog. Wil takes you with him to auditions, to Star Trek conventions, to his living room, and into the deepest reaches of his soul. Along the way, he realizes he's happy to be...Just a Geek."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: title: Just a Geek
pagenum: 2; title: Dedication
pagenum: 3; title: Forward
pagenum: 4; title: Just an Introduction
pagenum: 4; title: A Note to the Reader
pagenum: 8; label: I
title: Introduction
pagenum: 10; title: This Monkey's Gone to Heaven
pagenum: 11; label: II
title: Act I
pagenum: 16; label: 1
title: Where's My Burrito?
pagenum: 17; label: 2
title: Will Wheaton dot net
pagenum: 37; label: 3
title: SpongeBobvega$ Pants
pagenum: 50; title: Occasionally Glancing Up Through the Rain
pagenum: 51; title: If You Lived Here, You'd be Home by Now
pagenum: 58; label: III
title: Breaking News
pagenum: 70; title: The World Has Turned
pagenum: 71; label: IV
title: Act II
pagenum: 73; label: 4
title: Stop Me If You Think That You've Heard This One Before
pagenum: 74; label: 5
title: Last Place You Look
pagenum: 81; label: 6
title: Balance
pagenum: 86; label: V
title: Act III
pagenum: 90; label: 7
title: A Sort of Homecoming
pagenum: 91; label: 8
title: April's Fool
pagenum: 119; label: 9
title: Alone Again, Or...
pagenum: 124; label: 10
title: "You're Gonna Be a Great Writer Someday, Gordie"
pagenum: 139; label: VI
title: Act IV
pagenum: 152; label: 11
title: The Wesley Dialogues
pagenum: 153; label: 12
title: All Good Things
pagenum: 161; title: Epilogue: Hooters 2: Electric Boogaloo
pagenum: 188; label: A
title: The WWdN FAQ
pagenum: 190; label: B
title: Selected Interviews
pagenum: 199; title: BBSPOT.COM
pagenum: 199; title: Slashdot.org
pagenum: 201; title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: 223; title: Further Reading
pagenum: 227; title: About the Author
pagenum: 228; title: Colophon
pagenum: 229; title: Copyright
pagenum: 231