# Booky Wook 2: This time it’s personal

Russell Brand

In the sequel to Russell's best-selling biography 'My Booky Wook' we follow the now sober but still scandalous, sex-fuelled star on his electrifying rise to international fame. A roller coaster ride through tours, films, stand up and tabloids – this time, it's personal.Rarely has a sequel delivered on the promise of the original with such literary and comic gusto. In Booky Wook 2: This Time It's Personal, Russell Brand takes off where his international best-seller My Book Wook left off. Brand is sober and, after dedicating his life and compromising his sanity in the pursuit of fame, he has had his first taste of national notoriety. Does fame bring happiness and inner peace? Not exactly, but it does mean a lot of sex. It also ushers in an unforgettable and raucous ride through chat shows, tabloid scandals, and Hollywood, all the while detailing Brand's search for the contentment that fame can't quite grant. Booky Wook 2 is a "celebrity memoir" unlike any you've read before: more clever and inventive than ever, Russell Brand explores the consequences of massive stardom just as he demonstrates the power of language and wit to make sense of it all.

Russell Brand

BOOKY WOOK 2

This Time It’s Personal


For Katy.

This is my past.

You are my future.

Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself.

Charles Baudelaire

Have faith in Allah but always tie your camel up.

John Noel

## Contents

Title Page

Epigraph

Part One

Chapter 1 - Like a Rolling Stone

Chapter 2 - New Musical Expletive

Chapter 3 - Big Brother’s Big Risk

Chapter 4 - Enter Sandman

Chapter 5 - Digital Manipulation

Chapter 6 - No Means NOooo

Chapter 7 - Take Me to Your Leader

Chapter 8 - The Happiest Place on Earth

Chapter 9 - Human Yoghurt

Part Two

Chapter 10 - Seriously, Do You Know Who I Am?

Chapter 11 - Hawaii Not?

Chapter 12 - It’s What He Would’ve Wanted

Chapter 13 - Hey Pluto!

Picture Section

Part Three

Chapter 14 - They Never Forget

Chapter 15 - Come on, Darling, We’re Leaving

Chapter 16 - Opportunity Sucks

Chapter 17 - He’s from Barcelona

Part Four

Chapter 18 - Mummy Helen

Chapter 19 - The Last Autograph

Chapter 20 - Boner Fido

Chapter 21 - Bottle Rocket

Picture Section

Acknowledgements

Permissions

Copyright

About the Publisher

Part One

Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

Franz Kafka

If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I’m still waiting, it’s all been to seduce women basically.

Jean-Paul Sartre