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The Geek's Guide to Dating
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You keep your action figures in their original packaging. Your closets are full of officially licensedStar Wars merchandise. You’re hooked on Elder Scrolls and Metal Gear but now you’ve discovered an even bigger obsession: the new girl who just moved in down the hall.
What’s a geek to do? Take some tips from The Geek’s Guide to Dating. This hilarious primer is jam-packed with cheat codes, walkthroughs, and power-ups for navigating the perils and pitfalls of your love life with ease. Geeks of all ages will find answers to the ultimate questions of life, the universe, and everything romantic, from First Contact to The Fellowship of the Ring and beyond. Full of whimsical 8-bit illustrations, The Geek’s Guide to Dating will teach fanboys everywhere to love long and prosper.
What’s a geek to do? Take some tips from The Geek’s Guide to Dating. This hilarious primer is jam-packed with cheat codes, walkthroughs, and power-ups for navigating the perils and pitfalls of your love life with ease. Geeks of all ages will find answers to the ultimate questions of life, the universe, and everything romantic, from First Contact to The Fellowship of the Ring and beyond. Full of whimsical 8-bit illustrations, The Geek’s Guide to Dating will teach fanboys everywhere to love long and prosper.
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“Oh, me, oh, my. So seeing as I really did just read this book in less time than a day again (though not as fast as a Gayle Foreman, Alexandra Harvey, Rowling, etc) I definitely think this needs reviewing pretty much on the spot. I really want to be able to give this book five stars, because it is a truly, adorably, fabulous little book *but* (and I want to start with these to knock them out of the way as possible), this is a niche book and it gets it down a level for me.
Especially because you will not find the following in the pages of the book listed --
1. Advice and commentary on either being/or looking to date in the LGBTQIAAP realm. (For those of you not in the wide sexology referencing know, these stand for 'lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual, allies, and panseuxal' and that's only the beginning of the alphabet soup). But you won't find except one sneeze of a reference titled 'I think my dates a guy...' and it's not framed positively, but it is tiny.
2. Nor will you find advice for the Geek Girl looking to date. Or the Geek Boy and what he should do with having stumbled on to the rampantly more obvious in the day and age Geek Girl, and how to date her.
I was disappointed on both counts, because I was enamored and in love with the cover from first glance, and wanted to find things I identified with in here. Which happens to be in both of those boxes, as well as several pieces of what I found in the book. This book is very specifically for the (White) Awkward (Straight) Male Geek toward the Modern (Likely Not Geeky) Woman. (Maybe even specifically the one born in the eighties and raised in the ninty's).
BUT WAIT. Don't turn away now!
It *is* a niche book, but it's an amazing book for being a niche book!
I spent this entire book smiling, shaking my head in fondness, cackling at all the references I caught everywhere and laughing at how ingeniously the whole thing was framed to be given to heteronormative boys/men. There are so many references to movies, tv shows, games, books, comics, that you are almost drowning in them. But it's the perfect kind of drowning where you don't want to come up.
The Player One title the whole way through and the no-nonsense approach to all of it is killer. From how to befriend, to how to ask, to how to deal with marriage and/or break-ups. I'm going to be picking up a handful of copies for people at Christmas, don't you doubt me.”
About Eric Smith
Eric Smith is the cofounder of Geekadelphia, a popular blog covering all-that-is-geek in the City of Brotherly Love, as well as the Philadelphia Geek Awards, an annual awards show held at the Academy of Natural Sciences. He’s written for the Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Weekly, and Philly.com.
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