‘Kick me’ (Three Rivers Press, 2002) written by Paul Feig is one of the funniest books I’ve ever read. It narrates the adventures of Paul Feig as an adolescent through primary school to the prom dance at high school.
Cover of the book
Paul Feig is one my personal heroes (Woody Allen is another one!), he created one of the most underrated TV shows ever, ‘Freaks and Geeks’ (definitely worth to watch its only 19 episodes) and he directed a vast number of episodes of shows that I love like ‘The Office’ (US version), ‘Arrested Development’, ‘Weeds’, ‘Parks and Recreations’, ‘Bored to Death’ or even ‘Mad men’.
The book is autobiographical and even his ‘minor celebrity’ status, he doesn’t doubt about writing embarrassing stories. One of my favorites is how he discovered how to masturbate titled’ The Rope Feeling’, it’s such an innocent story and funny that when you finished it there’s no way he made that up. And that’s one of the highlights of the book, the stories are just his experiences, he is not trying to put some glamour in his early days just stories that make your day.
After this book he also wrote ‘Superstud: Or How I Became a 24-Year-Old Virgin’ that is about the time he moves to college until he loses his virginity. I will try to write something about it too because it’s as good as this one.
You can find ‘Kick me’ in amazon and it’s available for Kindle for less than 10€.
