My Incredibly Wonderful, Miserable Life: An Anti-Memoir, by Adam Nimoy
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My Incredibly Wonderful, Miserable Life: An Anti-Memoir, by Adam Nimoy
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The funny, sad, and heartwarming memoir by Leonard Nimoy's son Adam Nimoy—who bounces back after suffering through severe drug addiction, multiple career changes, and a devastating divorce. Augusten Burroughs meets Don Rickles meets Larry David in this riveting chronicle by the son of Spock that includes a thirty-year battle with drug addiction, three career changes, one divorce, a major mid-life crisis, and countless AA meetings. In this frankly humble and hilarious anti-memoir, Adam Nimoy shares the incredibly wonderful, miserable truth about life as a newly divorced father, a forty-something on the L.A. dating scene, a recovering user, and a former lawyer turned director turned substitute teacher...in search of his true self. And, most importantly, he shares the wonderful, miserable truth about growing up the son of a pop culture icon. He’s been rushed by crazed Star Trek fans at a carnival, propositioned by his father’s leading ladies, promised by his own teenage daughter that she never wants to see him again, and fired by famous television producers for his temper. In a city and amidst an industry where appearing perfect is a way of life, Adam Nimoy doesn’t mince words, and My Incredibly Wonderful, Miserable Life is his cautionary, startlingly honest, and very funny tale.
My Incredibly Wonderful, Miserable Life: An Anti-Memoir, by Adam Nimoy- Amazon Sales Rank: #1201975 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-03-09
- Released on: 2015-03-09
- Format: Kindle eBook
From Booklist Despite those legendary auricles, when it came to being a father, Leonard Nimoy wasn’t all ears. In fact, he was seldom around. That’s the message in his son’s “anti-memoir.” In the years prior to Star Trek, the elder Nimoy, a tough kid born to Russian immigrant parents, was always hustling for work. His son relished the rare moments they spent together, though dad was often distant and drenched in booze. Nimoy’s tale recounts the dissolution of his own marriage, his marijuana and alcohol addictions, and his moderately successful career as a television director. He’s at his best describing efforts to stay connected with his two children (his discussions with teenage daughter Maddy are especially poignant). Less interesting are his trials and tribulations as a newly single dad in Los Angeles. In the end, the author’s reefer madness seems mild compared to the dysfunctional displays documented in more memorable memoirs like Burroughs’ Dry. This is tame stuff but sure to appeal to readers seeking a glimpse of life with a pop icon pop. --Allison Block
Review "Mr. Spock's soul-searching son struggles with a classic midlife crisis and emerges from his iconic dad's shadow... a touching, humorous, and in the end wise account of how a Hollywood brat transcended lifelong resent of his father by learning to accept without blame." -- Kirkus Review
About the Author Adam Nimoy is an instructor at the New York Film Academy. He lives in Santa Monica, California.
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58 of 64 people found the following review helpful. Mr. Spock's Son memoir is self-indulgent dud By D. Summerfield Adam Nimoy, son of legendary television star Leonard Nimoy, is one angry guy. His new book, labeled an "Anti-Memoir" is ostensibly about the recovery from a down-hill slide of a long-time drug and alcohol addict who just happens to be the son of the actor who played "Star Trek's" Mr. Spock. Unfortunately in his attempt to convey the stylish angst of Augusten Burroughs( Running with Scissors: A Memoir; Dry: A Memoir) or David Sedaris( Naked; Me Talk Pretty One Day), he falls far short of their twisted, jaundiced and always hilarious views of the surreal side of life.As an author, Nimoy just doesn't have Burroughs' or Sedaris' sense of the ridiculous, nor their gift of wit. He takes himself so seriously that even when he seems to be poking fun at his own foibles, he comes across as whiny. The vibe that he gives off is one of a man who feels like life has handed him a rotten deal and that other people -- his father, his mother, his ex-wife, his children and even his friends and potential date-mates -- are really to blame.In deciding to read a memoir by the child of a famous person, the reader wants to get some idea of what that celebrity is like. Who better to tell us than someone who lived intimately for many years with the celeb? While Adam Nimoy gives us some short insights and anecdotes into "life with father," what we mainly get is a book-length screed about about the son's own AA meetings, his lackluster parenting skills and current jobs prospects (first as a public school substitute teacher, then teaching classes in directing.) Nimoy the Younger's own foray into the entertainment industry might have made for interesting reading. He directed some 45 episodes of such television series as "Ally McBeal" and "NYPD Blue." But he never gives any juicy insights into the inner workings of some of our favorite television shows. Instead he gives us page after weary page of tedious description on the break-up of his marriage, the bad manners of his two children, how hard it is to find good "girls" to date at AA meetings and how to conduct a class on directing short films.One thing I found particularly smarmy about the book is not only how Adam Nimoy presents himself as a self-righteous misunderstood sinner who should have been a "Somebody" (his term), but that he writes the book as though he is a much younger man than he really is.The back cover blurb describes him as "forty-something." When he is ogled at parties and in public places (which happens a lot, according to him), by attractive women, they are usually referred to as "girls," which gives the impression he is some sexy Viggo Mortenson or Clive Owen-type man-on-the-make. Yet, if you do the math from dates mentioned in the book (he says he applied for college admission for the Fall 1974 term, which would have made him seventeen or eighteen then), he is at least a year or two past the half-century mark. It's not that fifty or older can't be sexy -- God, look at Sean Connery -- but Nimoy's writing is the literary equivalent of those repeated plastic surgeries which make aging actresses look so weird (see Faye Dunaway, et al.) His forays into the "L.A. dating scene" come across as sort of pathetic and a little scary.Utimately, the reader doesn't care about Adam Nimoy's life. He had a privileged upbringing, earned a law degree and used his father's name to parlay his pricy education into some classy directing gigs. Then his "attitude problem" brought on by his daily marijuana and alcohol use for some thirty years torpedoed his good life and brought him low. Americans love a good "pick-myself-up-and-dust-myself-off-and-start-all-over-again" story -- but not one that comes with furious finger-pointing at the unfairness of the world.
21 of 22 people found the following review helpful. An incredibly out of order anti-memoir By Sheryl Spencer I use to love watching Star Trek and was a fan of Leonard Nimoy's, so I had high hopes to start reading this book by his son, Adam Nimoy.The book sounded interesting enough, since Adam had recounted his troubled life with a humorous aspect and gave the reader a glimpse at what it was like to grow up in a famous household. But, my expectations were too high. I can't say that this book completely dashed my hopes of being interesting, but it certainly wasn't what I was expecting either.When I'm reading a book about a persons life, I expect it to be written in somewhat of a chronological order, but this book is far from it. How it seems to me that Adam wrote this book, was that he sat down and simply wrote about whichever event came into his thoughts at the moment.This book starts off with Adam humorously recounting what he went through to get this book published, but then the chapters that follow are just random excerpts of his life. He does talk about his growing up years, his special moments with his children, his marriage and divorce, his drug addiction and his trials and tribulations, but it's hard to follow since he goes back and forth between the years. Even the pictures that are inserted throughout this book don't match with the point in time that he's writing about.I give Adam credit for wanting to write a book about his own life and not simply write about his "life with Leonard", but I think if he would have taken the time to arrange this book a little bit better, this book would be a lot better to read.
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful. Therapy...I hope it helped By nobodyleaves This book was therapy, plain and simple, for the author who is dealing with a lifelong substance abuse problem. It is not a biography or even a memoir and should not be read with that expectation in mind. As therapy, it's well written and I hope, and sense, that Mr. Nimoy got something out of it. However, as an earlier reviewer pointed out, Mr. Nimoy deftly avoids speaking about the things in his life that any subjective reader would be interested in learning more about. The directing career that he professes to love isn't discussed in any detail. The failure of his marriage, which he seems to blame for most of the relationship problems with his children, is not discussed in any detail at all. I have a problem with authors who publish personal memoirs and yet jealously guard the information they wish to share. Mr. Nimoy isn't the first and he certainly won't be the last, however I wish publishers would simply reject the life-edited material and ask the authors to simply talk to their friends or therapists instead of attempting a book. Both they and the reader would be better served.
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