American Nerd: The Story of My People
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1 journaler for this copy...
4 An "okay" book, possibly draggy or too light, not my thing--
-----------From the back cover:
What makes Dr. Frankenstein an archetypal nerd? Where did the modern jock come from? When and how did being a self described nerd become trendy? As the nerd emerged, vaguely formed, in the nineteenth century and popped up again and again in college humor journals and sketches, our culture obsessed over the designation.
Mixing research with autobiography... Nugent embarks on a fact finding mission of the most engaging variety. He seeks the best definition of nerd and illuminates the common ground between nerd subcultures that might seem related; high school debate team kids and ham radio enthusiasts, medieval reenactors and pro-circuit Halo players. How are those people similar? How does the history of the nerd intersect with the history of ethnic stereotypes? This clever, enlightening history of the concept of nerdiness and the activities we consider nerdy will appeal to the nerd and antinerd that lives in all of us.
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I suppose the best way I can describe this book is so meh it was forgettable. In that, about 4-5 months after I finished it, as I sit down to write this review, I can remember virtually nothing about it. The description above is correct. There is a bit of memoir and a bit of history. It wasn't terrible but it was also utterly forgttable.
-----------From the back cover:
What makes Dr. Frankenstein an archetypal nerd? Where did the modern jock come from? When and how did being a self described nerd become trendy? As the nerd emerged, vaguely formed, in the nineteenth century and popped up again and again in college humor journals and sketches, our culture obsessed over the designation.
Mixing research with autobiography... Nugent embarks on a fact finding mission of the most engaging variety. He seeks the best definition of nerd and illuminates the common ground between nerd subcultures that might seem related; high school debate team kids and ham radio enthusiasts, medieval reenactors and pro-circuit Halo players. How are those people similar? How does the history of the nerd intersect with the history of ethnic stereotypes? This clever, enlightening history of the concept of nerdiness and the activities we consider nerdy will appeal to the nerd and antinerd that lives in all of us.
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I suppose the best way I can describe this book is so meh it was forgettable. In that, about 4-5 months after I finished it, as I sit down to write this review, I can remember virtually nothing about it. The description above is correct. There is a bit of memoir and a bit of history. It wasn't terrible but it was also utterly forgttable.
Journal Entry 2 by PokPok at Panera Bread, 401 Vista Village Dr. in Vista, California USA on Monday, March 13, 2017
Released 7 yrs ago (3/13/2017 UTC) at Panera Bread, 401 Vista Village Dr. in Vista, California USA
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