3 February 2009
Benjamin Nugent: American Nerd – The Story of My People
Posted by Dirk under: books .
This book caught my eye at the library and I snagged it.
I finished it but I wasn’t too impressed with it. The book is pretty disjointed. Some historical perspective on the genesis of the ‘nerd’ in America and a bunch of personal anecdotes from the author about his own personal nerd journey.
One of my main problems with the book is that the author isn’t really a nerd. He was for a few years when he was a kid but then he decided he didn’t want to be a nerd anymore and threw his buddies under the bus. I can forgive a lot of things but that sort of disloyalty really chaps my hide. You don’t treat your friends like that.
I really think the book is just an attempt at selling some books while nerds are popular. Screw that and screw Benjamin Nugent.
Nerd 4 Life, bitch!