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Look Who It Is Alan Carr (2000)

by Alan Carr(Favorite Author)

3.82 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1552786862 (ISBN13: 9781552786864)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

review 1: I read this book because somebody that I know recommended it to me last year. I’ve just managed to get round to reading it, and overall I would say that it has left a mixed impression behind.I have to confess that when somebody recommended this, I didn’t know who Alan Carr was. But now that I’ve seen Alan Carr on the Jonathan Ross show a lot of what he says about his mannerisms clicked into place.He is obviously somebody that grew up in a football mad family and this is emphasised not only by who his father is but also how he has named the chapter headings. With some chapters I have failed to see how they correspond to the chapter content.While reading this book I particularly enjoyed the parts where he talks about his childhood, his pushy father, his school days, li... morefe at University, temp work and then when he goes travelling. However, I found the later chapters after this much less enjoyable.I thought that this could be due to the fact that he comes across as a bit whiny-moany especially when talking about his time at BarclayCard and then when he was struggling in the comedy circuits. Although this insight that he does give into life in the comedy circuit is very interesting. I wouldn’t have said that this book made me laugh-out-loud but it did make me smile in places and cringe (accident with his teeth and ripping his toe-nails out) here and there.Overall, to borrow a footballing cliche, instead of a match of two halves this book was for me a book of two halves.
review 2: This book is not, exactly, gripping, nor is it enormously hilarious; at best it’s an easy to read, comical in parts book with no real story line.I have read a few autobiographies, all of which have been filled with fascinating anecdotes – only people with truly interesting lives should be allowed to write about them otherwise you are left feeling you are talking to a lonely man down the pub, who is boring you about the time he worked in a call centre and everyone did a Mexican wave. Fascinating - not. Unless you have an active interest in Alan Carr or want to become the next big thing, I would suggest you read Russell Brand’s Booky Wooky. Now that guy has lived. less

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