A round up of the weekend's reading

I managed to finish three books over the weekend (yay me!) This speed reading training is really doing something.

I thought i would give a quick round up of the three very different books.

Firstly we have:

Just a Geek by Wil Wheaton 4/5 stars

Well in a complete change of pace I read a non-fiction book. Its a first for the year. Just a Geek is an autobiograhical account of Wil Wheaton and his coming to terms with his Star Trek: The Next Generation past. I takes the form of augmented blog post from Wheatons website(s). As Wheaton comments that in the beginning, he is listening to that "prove to them all" inner voice so there is a lot of boasting about things that aren't quite true but the agumentation give a good insight into what was really going on and how much he really did strugle. 

I remeber Wil on Star Trek but that not really where I came to know him as an actor. His appearances on Big Bang Theory as himself are great, but what I loved him in was the Sci-Fi show Eureka, where he played a high strung and emotional scientist who often gets quite angry. What I was really happy about was to learn that he is nothing like these characters and really....just a geek like the rest of us, who drops in the odd Simpsons quote too.

More to come. 

In addition to this, I have finally been inspried to read Ringworld because of an account in the book where Wheaton meets Niven and both have a little fan boy moment. Thats kind of cool. So Ringworld, here I come!