As you may well know, I am a huge Wil Wheaton fan. Not only do I admire his work on Star Trek: The Next Generation, his best-selling book Dancing Barefoot, but I also admire him as a person and I enjoy his weblog as much as anything else I can think of. Well a long time ago I ordered a copy of his book, Dancing Barefoot, from Amazon dot com and I also promised a review of the book.
Well I have been slack and although I have written most of the review, I have not published it on my site yet. So here it is, along with some *terrific news* regarding Wil Wheaton’s book(s) and career; Wil Wheaton has just signed a publishing deal with O’Reilly and Associates. For anyone who is even the slightest of geeks you should know that O’Reilly is responsible a lot of the computer related books available to you and I. This is a huge opportunity for Wil* and I hope the books are as exciting as Dancing Barefoot.
And here is the book review:
I just put down Dancing Barefoot. Simply put, it was terrific. If you are a fan of Wil’s Weblog, WWdN, then you will love this book. It’s only 117 pages from cover to cover, but it is definitely worth getting.
Dancing Barefoot is a child of Wil’s project Just a Geek which he is still writing. In writing Just a Geek, Wil had to cut out 5 of the stories and rather than tossing them out completely he released them in a separate book, Dancing Barefoot.
This book is a collection of 5 short stories - 4 very short and one not so short - that are adaptations of Wil’s Weblog. The stories all originated from Wil’s Weblog, but have been elaborated on to create a full story for each. This has given readers of the Weblog, an “offline version” to put on the shelf.
I really want to talk about the stories a lot more, but I think it would be cruel to take away anyone’s chance to read it for themselves. I give the weblog 4 spuds out of 4. Enjoy!
* For those of you who read WWdN you should understand that this hasn’t come easily for Wil and just because he “used to be on TNG” doesn’t mean that this deal was just handed to him.
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