Brian blessed autobiography book

Images in this review. Top reviews from the United States. There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. Verified Purchase. Hands down, no one could read a Brian Blessed book aloud but the man himself. This audiobook is the closest thing most mere mortals could ever come to sitting down across from Brian Blessed while he regaled you with tales from his life.

My heart was enriched with the warmth and kindness pouring forth from my speakers. Peals of my laughter rang out quite often as I listened. I love the man, and love the book. Brian Blessed has one of the most memorable voices of his generation. To hear him recount his astounding memoirs in his own voice must be heard to fully benefit. He has led such a fascinating life.

I highly recommend this to everyone. Be aware he does of course use some quite salty colorful language! OK, I admit it. Alas, these two roles in his life were only mentioned briefly in this memoir. The chapters he devoted the most time to concerned shows I never saw—or even heard of like Z-Cars. I suppose they didn't get a lot of exposure in the States.

His favorite movie, "Flash Gordon" seemed silly to me, heretic that I am. So I would say a lot of his good stories were wasted on me. Nonetheless, Brian's exuberant behavior comes across in his writing. He's irreverent and boisterous, fun and probably very approachable. Of course he's fun to read no matter whether I knew the references or not.

I have been a fan of Brian for many years and he is always interesting and fun so I thought this book would be the same. And it is! His life seems to be We should all live such a life. Fantastic, fascinating read. Hard to put down. Fantastic read! But near the end he told a story of when he was young and played an awful trick at a child's birthday party.

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On the first night Blessed, who was playing Banquo, had to get the plastered O'Toole into something like a costume and propel him onstage. In those days he was still aiming to be a Shakespearean actor and was devastated to receive a call from Orson Welles asking him to play Hotspur in Henry IV just after he had started Z-Cars. As an aficionado of Hepburn's films he managed to give as good as he got, surprising her with his analysis of where her leading man and partner Spencer Tracy had been ad-libbing, and he finally told her he was bored sick of hearing about Spencer all the time.