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A bit surprising to those who don't know the man behind the Schrute, Rainn Wilson has had a strong (and profound) journey through faith throughout his years. Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.And while it got a bit preachy at times: We get inundated with so many messages about belief, about what is true and what is not, from both our families and our culture, and it’s crucial that every single one of us come to our own well-excavated understanding.It was, ultimately, quite an interesting look into his life. I think some readers are freaked out because of the stuff about the Bahá’í faith, but don't let that turn you away. I didn't know anything about it, and its presentation in the book is pretty light until an appendix at the end, which you can just take or leave if it's not to your taste.
Rainn Wilson isn’t an obviously famous bassoon player as he’s better known by most for his turn as Dwight Schrute on NBC’s The Office. But he also plays bassoon!This is a celebrity memoir that would be pretty damn good and interesting even if the celebrity writing it wasn't famous. I think that's going to be my new benchmark for these: Would I like this book if this person was completely not famous? He seems willing to work hard at examining things, but the book is in many ways superficial, and in some ways, lazy. At times he resorts to lists or bullet-pointed random thoughts, rather than weaving them into a cohesive narrative.
As we might expect, that day job gets plenty of mention. Steve Carell sweated so much, Wilson tells us, that the set had to be kept at 64 degrees; there are also tidbits about other cast members and their entanglements, including the real-life complicated relationship between B.J. Novak and Mindy Kaling. Indeed, Wilson wrote the book’s introduction in the voice of Dwight — an undertaking that surprisingly did not come as easily. For starters, my only knowledge of Rainn Wilson is from the Office, and this seems to appeal to people who are more into his Soul Pancake stuff. I'm not so much with the spirituality, so all the stuff about religion, spirituality, etc. seemed to drag on a bit for me. Plus, he even says at one point, "I'm going to talk about the Office for a while now, so if you're not interested in that, feel free to skip ahead." Who are these people who read this for all the other content and wanted to skip the Office segment? And on that note, the stuff about the Office is tragically short. I was really hoping for some more insider information about working on that great show, because what we did get was pretty fun! Definitely the highlight of the book. He continued producing hits with the best, and his bassoon playing took off with a version of Thelonious Monk’s Round Midnight. I learned a lot about the Baha'i faith from Rainn Wilson. I had never heard of it before this book. It seems to be a very good, spiritual, equality-driven faith. Way better than Scientology! haha! I had no idea that Rainn was such a spiritual person.
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Certainly for fans of The Office, but the amiable actor also offers thoughtful glimpses into the realities of the TV and film industry and an impassioned rationale for living an openly spiritual life. Certainly for fans of The Office, but the amiable actor also offers thoughtful glimpses into the realities of the TV and film industry and an impassioned rationale for living an openly spiritual life.” Rainn Wilson’s memoir about growing up geeky and finally finding his place in comedy, faith, and life What I most wanted to read about was snippets from his time on the set of The Office. Unfortunately, those didn't come until the last two chapters of his memoir. I may be wrong to base my review on that alone, but that is what I wanted to read about. Not that everything previously wasn't pleasant to read; it was. I just felt slightly gipped. Wilson concludes “The Bassoon King” on a perfect note with equal parts of wit, humor, and personality that really sum him up as a person leaving the reader with adequate insight. Readers will certainly close the book with happy contentment.
He was the only one of the family to survive what Francois Maurois, in his introduction, calls the "human holocaust" of the persecution of the Jews, which began with the restrictions, the singularization of the yellow star, the enclosure within the ghetto, and went on to the mass deportations to the ovens of Auschwitz and Buchenwald. There are unforgettable and horrifying scenes here in this spare and sombre memoir of this experience of the hanging of a child, of his first farewell with his father who leaves him an inheritance of a knife and a spoon, and of his last goodbye at Buchenwald his father's corpse is already cold let alone the long months of survival under unconscionable conditions.Nope. Even so he tells a good story, it ended up being a disappointment because at the end of the day, he's just like every other narcissist. And that's boring. The Office star brings a value-added approach to his new book The Bassoon King: It’s a coming-of-age story anda showbiz memoir anda funny read.Wilson also brings a values-added approach: The Bassoon King is a gentle introduction to theBahá’iFaith, which Wilson re-embraced as an adult, after wrestling with both drugs and the question of meaning in his life.” It was really hard for me,” Wilson said. “I can react in the moment as Dwight. But I never wrote episodes or dialogue as Dwight. So I wrote a first draft … a much less funny first draft of Dwight’s introduction, and I got notes and punch-ups from B.J. Novak [and writer-producers] Greg Daniels and Paul Lieberstein. They were able to really elevate it.” In 1983, Jacquet started a band of his own, and his range of musical expression guaranteed him and his bassoon access to many musical concerts around the world.
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