Storia naturale del nerd. I ragazzi con gli occhiali che hanno cambiato il mondo
by:
Benjamin Nugent (author)
F. Aceto (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9788876382079 (8876382070)
Publish date: 2011
Publisher: Isbn Edizioni
Pages no: 231
Edition language: Italian
Category:
Non Fiction,
Humor,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
History,
Culture,
Sociology,
Psychology,
Cultural Studies,
Pop Culture
I think sentences like this really speak for the content of the book and the overall attitude of the author towards nerds as well as those who are not what he considers 'his people': "...Bucholtz found that science-fiction fans and females who describe themselves as nerds are both groups that tend t...
The rating is based on my reading of the first chapter, beyond which I will probably never proceed.
Before I launch into a discussion of what a nerd is and where the idea of nerds comes from, I’d like to disclose that when I was eleven, I had a rich fantasy life in which I carried a glowing staff.Thus opens Nugent’s American Nerd: The Story of My People. Personally, I imagined I had the energy bo...
This memoir-cum-treatise is hard to classify because Nugent mixes genres. Part memoir, part sociology, part speculation, it does not cohere as much as this nerd reviewer would like. Speaking of this reviewer, I must say that Nugent does a poor job of characterizing female nerds. I know that I'm a ne...
I thought I was going to love this book. Not! I found it a bit boring and it took me a while to get through it. Definitely male centric.
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