The Geek Handbook: User Guide and Documentation for the Geek in Your Life

by Mikki Halpin

Book Overview

He has reached every level of Myst. Her room is littered with soda cans. He idolizes Data from Star Trek(R). But all your favorite geek really wants is to be understood....
Whether you're friends with a geek, work with one, love one, or hate one, The Geek Handbook provides handy instructions for analyzing and understanding all things geek, including:
How Your Geek Relates to Others
Geek organizations and gathering...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671036866
• ISBN13: 9780671036867
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: Gallery Books
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.3" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Hilarious and helpful

Just found this book and it's still current! This woman must have dated or known many a fine geek. Very cute and actually quite helpful in learning how to approach a partner who's more interested in online gaming than getting some fresh air (uh, that would be my Significant Other). I loved the tips on how to help your geek eat better, handle stress, etc. Recommended!!

Nothing like Stereo Instructions

This is a great book, I got one for my girlfriend and she loved it so I got additional copies for the wives and girlfriends of some of my friends. Thus far, everyone has enjoyed it. The book is well-written, with a light, almost chatty style that really ropes you in and makes you keep reading. It also has an excellent and consistent format, something us geeks love. Buy it for your non-geek friends so they can better understand you, then buy one for yourself so you can see when they're using the techniques in the book to manage you.

Definative anthropological guide to geeks of all ages

This book is that rare and wonderful creation, a humor book that actually gives useful information about a sorely misunderstood segment of today's population. Mikki Halpin addresses the issues that pervade life with a geek, but in a gentle and humorous way without ever sounding patronizing. Now that the geeks run the world, thank god there is miss halpin to show us how to thrive and survive through all of our geek interactions.

Now I can use my geek wisely!

I have a geek, and thought Ms. Halpin's book would help me utilize him more effectively. I made a small mistake, though, and read the book in a public place before going home to apply its wisdom. You know those people laughing very very loudly and uncontrollably on the bus? That was me! Very, very funny book. Ms. Halpin really nails the geek type while, at the same, time, expressing deep respect and affection for geek culture and tendencies. The Geek Handbook is one of the funniest books I've read this year and and of itself, and truly does shed light on the possibly misunderstood or suboptimally applied geek in your life. Great book - recommend highly!

Topical, Funny Read

This book does not require much heavy lifting (either physically -- or intellectually), but it's often extremely funny and could become a big hit, since it describes people that we all know. I have a slight sense of uneasiness whenever I see such broad generalizations about any group of people. In this case it's tempered because Halpin's characterizations of geeks are spot-on and positive.