William Shatner and Chris Regan, "Shatner Rules  Your guide to Understanding the Shatnerverse and the World at Large" (2011)

William Shatner is a multi-talented Canadian, how 80, who whizzes through the varieties of his multitudinous life events in "Shattner Rules." And from his description of even his current life, he does indeed rule.

The elephant in his room is always the three-year "Star Trek" series that is living in re-runs longer than Methuselah. Shatner found it colored so much of what he did and does, but he would not let it deter him from trying new and different venues of performance, the variety of which will amaze the reader.  

The book is a series of vignettes historically organized in a time-line of his life in show business (that started in McGill University), and continues into his 80th year.

He proudly announces that he never says "no" to proposals (even hawking possible opportunities for possible entries to the Shatnerverse), and this is proof positive of his belief that "there are many lives in a lifetime."

review by a Gulfport Library patron