alobear | The Happiest Days Of Our Lives review

I finshed my second audiobook at the gym this morning - The Happiest Days Of Our Lives by Wil Wheaton. It's a series of short stories, mostly about his family and occasionally about acting and poker, read by the man himself, with additional discussion bits in between, involving the producer, his friend David Lawrence.

It took me a little while to get used to Wil sounding different to how I'd expected - I'm not sure why this was - and the brief musical interludes between chapters were - as his two kids would apparently say - really lame. However, he reads really well, the stories were fun and interesting, and the additional comments that cropped up every now and then were usually quite funny. It was a very intimate experience in some ways - the stories are mostly intensely personal, and having them broken up by spontaneous chatting, rather than just being read straight, made the whole thing much more informal.

I really love Wil's writing, and it was great to experience it in a different format.