Superstud

by Paul Feig

ONE LINE SUMMARY: The creator of “Freaks and Geeks” writes about his life.

Memoirs tend to cover specific periods in a person’s life, and this one covers that time period when Paul Feig was obsessed with sex. The memoir ends with the author’s loss of virginity at age 24.

This is moderately amusing, but the single-minded focus (it jumps right in with his first boner in second grade) was a bit dull for me. Some characterization and explanation of his childhood in this book would have helped me feel more attached to young Feig, who just comes off as Napoleon Dynamite: The Sex Years–someone kind of funny, but so removed from the people you know that you never quite bond with them and instead watch them from a distance as if you were studying them.

Posted by: ssjane | September 14, 2005 | 2:38 pm
Posted in: Books | Essay/Memoir