I am what I am

Title: I am what I am
Author: John Barrowman with Carole E. Barrowman
Published: 2009 by Michael O'Mara Books Limited
Genre: Memoir (said in John Malkovich in Burn after reading -way) with lots of humour.
Pages: 248 + index


Got this one back in January (signed, too! Even if the signature looks more like @ than anything else...), but only finished a week or so ago over trips from work.

I've said it before (in another place, though), but every time I think John Barrowman cannot get any more awesome, he goes and becomes more awesome. Now he's writing comics! *le sigh*

Who's John Barrowman, you may ask? He's a Scottish born, American raised, Wales living actor, singer, producer, writer, TV-host and all around funny and awesome man. Best known around the place as Captain Jack Harkness from Doctor Who, and its spin-off Torchwood, he's also been seen and heard in many movies, like The Producers (the 2005 version; he's the one singing that infamous song!) and De-lovely, where he's singing Cole Porter's Night and day, and also smooching the man (offscreen. Damn it.). Umm, what else. This is his second memoir (again with the Malkovich), first one being called Anything goes (I have that as an audio book, read by the man himself, but I've yet to get to that).

I am what I am is named after a song in the musical version of The Birdcage, and it's full of funny stories about John and his family, friends and TV-shows/movies/musicals he's worked in. So a lot of famous people, and a lot with the funniness. I've been watching Buffy again, please forgive the talk. My favourite bits were of course the bits about Doctor Who and Torchwood, as I'm a fan of both. But the rest was all good, and I got really distracted now looking for a nice YouTube vid to add here. So John's in Desperate Housewives as well! Nice! Killing old ladies... uh.


"Oh yes, I did see my life flash before me during an evening performance of Robin Hood at the Birmingham Hippodrome in 2008, and all I kept repeating to myself was, 'Please don't let me die in tights.'"