Just a Geek is the story of Wil Wheaton - who achieved fame in his youth through his roles in Stand By Me, Star Trek: The Next Generation, and the ever popular The Curse - and his journey to embrace his past as TNG's Wesley Crusher and avoid becoming a 'has been.' It's a surprisingly interesting memoir of a former child star given the conspicuous lack of drugs and wild parties (though, clearly with some effort, Wheaton is able to conjure up two - you read that correctly, two - visits to Hooters). 
 I have to admit, I was one of the many (many many many) Wesley Crusher haters. I hated Wheaton again as Sheldon's nemesis in The Big Bang Theory because he is really very good at playing an evil character. Then I hated him yet again as Fawkes in The Guild for the same reason. 
 But then he started doing Table Top and, suddenly, I was in love. Just like that. He's fantastic, just the right level of geeky, funny, approachable... He just seemed like a really cool guy. So I got Just a Geek from the library and decided to get to know Wil a little better. 
 And I mostly liked what I read. He dwells a bit too long on describing his successes, which I found a little off-putting, and I found him a little petty in some of his descriptions of other people - even though he seems to realize his pettiness, it still comes through in his narration. I also found the narrative thread to be rather weak, perhaps because he was trying to structure the book around his blog posts rather than writing anew. As a result, I didn't get a strong sense of his ups and downs, and I had trouble really rooting for him at the logical rooting spots. 
 I did, however, find it interesting and funny, and I've since started reading his blog. I'm not sure how much I would have enjoyed it if I'd been following his blog all along, but as a noobie to the Wheaton fandom, it was a great crash course. 
 And now I really want to watch TNG again...