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Geek Wisdom: The Sacred Teachings Of Nerd Culture (2011)

by Stephen H. Segal(Favorite Author)

3.68 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1594745277 (ISBN13: 9781594745270)

languge

English

genre

Science Fiction

publisher

Quirk Books

review 1: I picked this up on a whim while at the library, and I still don't know why. The authors take a defensive tone in some of the short blurbs and that really turned me off. I don't feel the need to self proclaim myself as a "geek," I am a person who happens to like geeky things. So maybe I am not the intended audience. The section on the universe also made me slightly uncomfortable because many of the snippets were written with a bend towards atheism and its superiority to religious belief.
review 2: "Geek-hood," I realize, is all relative. I'd like to think that I have the street cred to call myself a geek or nerd. Graduate degrees in science. Book-lover. Technophile. Fantasy author. But as I read through the snippets of "wisdom" in this book, I kept thinki... moreng perhaps my grown daughter is more of a geek than I am. I got most of the pop culture references, but I think she might've gotten more of them. And (a look of embarrassment crosses his face) I am Doctor-Who-illiterate (gasp!).The "sacred teachings" were at times mildly humorous, or cute. But surely the editors could've found some profound gems of wisdom to throw in! Perhaps I expected too much. I just didn't get much out of this.And there was no mention of "Nerds," the candy. Too bad. less

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