Year 3, Book 69
69. American Nerd: The Story of My People by Benjamin Nugent This book was not really what I was expecting. Now that I've read the book, I don't really remember what I thought the book would be about, but this book wasn't it. The author spends the first part of the book looking at the history of the word nerd and pulling examples of nerds from literature. The second half of the book was seemingly supposed to be about specific nerds, but I felt like he strayed from that. And then interspersed throughout the book was stories from the author's own nerdy childhood. I quite honestly found the book rather boring, and I didn't really buy everything he was saying. I give it a 3 out of 10.
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dwhren) wrote,
frustrated
