Geek Redemption

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Summary: This is not your typical self-help book.
Review: I found Geek Redemption amusing and entertaining. While I have observed many of the same type happenings as did Johnny Dupa while growing up and entering the workforce, much of this behavior is never mentioned. I too have had a pocket protector for my pens and can readily identify with the "snake" attack on your girlfriend. I now wonder aloud, if executives with whiz-bang computers while their secretary types on a clunker, will qualify for geekdom. Surely those who can't make it from the 1st to the 5th floor without bottled water should be allowed entry.

While the stories are light and humorous, it does shed some light on the cause and effect of our behavior and how we react to illogical situations. In the real world, I do fear we are headed for the Star Trek Federation as described in the book.

Perhaps after reading this book you will see office politics in an entirely different light.

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Summary: This is not your typical self-help book.
Review: In "Geek Redemption" Johnny Dupa leads us on a delightfully, humorous journey through the secret lives of geeks. The inner workings, or should I say the trappings, of the nerd are revealed. I too am an engineer and have worked in similar surroundings as the author. After reading the book I suddenly realized that my life is encrusted with nerds, geeks, and spazs. Everyday I experience what Johnny Dupa calls 'Geekus Interruptus', having your conversation interrupted by a fellow worker who has nothing important to say that cannot wait. Have no fear, there is hope. It's all outlined in the second half of the book, a self-guided tour that will help you extract yourself from the pit of geekdom. One day I will be able to say, "I too was a geek, but now I am sporting 24 inch biceps and attracting babes like bees to honey! I owe it all to Geek Redemption."

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Summary: Pass on this.
Review: Just what one would expect from Dupa. A dull and uninteresting tale by an obvious introvert.

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Summary: Pass on this.
Review: This book was quite enjoyable. Many of the anecdotes, characterizations and illustrations seem eerily familiar to this reader, who has worked in the space program for some 26 years. As C. S. Lewis said (about a somewhat different book): "Here are beauties which pierce like swords or burn like cold iron".

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Summary: A Space Engineer's reaction.
Review: This book was quite enjoyable. Many of the anecdotes, characterizations and illustrations seem eerily familiar to this reader, who has worked in the space program for some 26 years. As C. S. Lewis said (about a somewhat different book): "Here are beauties which pierce like swords or burn like cold iron".