Book Review for Nonfiction Read-a-Thon book #6: Suck It, Wonder Woman!

Book: Suck It, Wonder Woman! The Misadventures of a Hollywood Geek by Olivia Munn with Mac Montandon

Rating: 1 star

Review:

Prior to making it big in Hollywood with acting work, Olivia Munn was mostly known for being a host on the geek centric show Attack of the Show.

This was not a very good book and it was definitely written with straight male readers in mind. There are 34 small chapters in this book that range from her moments as a awkward kid to her first appearance on a late night talk show. There is even a chapter with nothing but pictures of her in costumes and another with fanart of her. I can't believe there was even a chapter about her love of pie. I really can't believe I actually read the entire book, I kept waiting for it to get better but it didn't. There was a whole lot of randomness and nonsense in this.

When she wasn't doling out sex and dating advice for guys or talking about all the bad experiences she had as a newbie in Los Angles/Hollywood she was mostly discussing her desires to be popular back when she was the awkward new girl in school. Since her family traveled a lot (she's a military brat), she never felt as if she fit in but the one thing on her mind was trying to be popular.

The only chapter that seems to have any real substance is the one where she described the death of her grandmother. It was both sad and moving because in that chapter she wasn't trying to be funny you got to see the pain of her losing someone who meant a lot to her.

This book isn't all bad I did laugh at some of her attempts at trying to be cool but that's about it. The snippets she gave about her life would have been great if they had been fully detailed (or given to a better writer) such as the time she spent living in Japan or all the other places she's traveled to. There was just so much she could have chosen to write about instead of what appeared in this book.

For a book that has the subtitle of The Misadventures of a Hollywood Geek, there was surprisingly no real geek moments in this. However she does proclaim it quite loudly that she is a geek and she likes dating geek guys. I'm sure she is a geek but she shouldn't have to tell people that she's a geek she should just show it.

Suck It, Wonder Woman! is a poorly written book that should have really shown how her being bullied and ostracized at school made her into the person she is today but instead it's lackluster and filled with horribly unfunny humor. The problem with this book is she was trying too hard to be funny, edgy and cool instead of being herself. Which was something she mentioned in the last chapter in the book when she was going to appear on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, she wondered if she should be funny or be herself so the audience could see her personality. I guess she went with trying to be funny with this book which was a total fail.

This book wasn't worth the dollar I paid for it from the dollar store.