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

par Rainn Wilson

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Biography & Autobiography. Essays. Nonfiction. Humor (Nonfiction.) HTML:Rainn Wilson’s 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 more. 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 more 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 Bahá’í faith he grew up in.
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Rainn Wilson is an impressive specimen.
How would I describe him?
Three words.
Hard-working, Alpha male. Jackhammer. ( )
  paarth7 | May 6, 2023 |
2.5 stars. I usually enjoy memoir read by the author. This one was okay. Like many memoirs, it's pretty uneven. Most people will probably find the chapter on Wilson's experience with The Office most interesting. ( )
  CarolHicksCase | Mar 12, 2023 |
With Rainn Wilson as the reader, this was a great one to do on audio. There were even a few guest appearances by Dwight Schrute.
It's not your typical Hollywood bio- Wilson talks a lot about faith and his unconventional childhood. I was surprised by the level of vulnerability in his writing, whether he was talking about the highs and lows of his acting career, or something personal, like his parents' divorce.
It's clear he has a deep love for acting and takes his work very much to heart. Listening to his stories made me like him more than I already did.

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  Harks | Dec 17, 2022 |
The Office ranks as one of my favorite re-watchable shows ever. This book not so much. If you are looking for extra tidbits about The Office in this book, you will find some tidbits. I would recommend you just read the forward by Dwight Schrute and the couple small chapters about the Office near the end. Most of this book is about the Bassoon King, Rainn Wilson.



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  wellington299 | Feb 19, 2022 |
nonfiction/memoir (actor Rainn Wilson best known from "The Office")
not as funny as other comedic writers (the middle section was a little dry, a little bit droning on and on, so my easily distractable mind would frequently zone out), but he has some interesting stories from his unconventional childhood and also spends some time expounding on what he's doing with Soul Pancake (digital entertainment company that gave Kid President a TV show), as well as important social issues in Haiti, etc. He also talks about spirituality for quite a while (his own journey from his parents' B'Hai faith to his own understanding of the world), but it doesn't come off as too preachy--he's just offering his thoughts for consideration. ( )
  reader1009 | Jul 3, 2021 |
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Biography & Autobiography. Essays. Nonfiction. Humor (Nonfiction.) HTML:Rainn Wilson’s 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 more. 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 more 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 Bahá’í faith he grew up in.

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