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

Mikki Halpin (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1, 2000

He has reached every level of Myst. Her room is littered with soda cans. He idolizes Data from Star Trek®. 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 spots

Getting Your Geek to Exercise
Klingon™ martial arts as workout strategy

The Geek Diet
Soda, pizza, and other geek food groups; how to help your geek thrive

Editorial Reviews

Review

Jon Katz The Geek Handbook has a vey helpful, even touching, quality to it. Geeks are now running the systems that run the world, and this handbook will help you live with them, work with them, and sometimes even love them. As Halpin points out so skillfully, that isn't always easy. -- Review

About the Author

Mikki Halpin wrote the essay "A Girl's Guide to Geek Guys" for Bunnyhop, and it quickly became an Internet classic, earning Mikki a special place in geekdom. She was editor in chief of the online magazine Stim; co-founded the classic 'zine Ben Is Dead; and has written for many publications, including Wired, BookForum, Studio Mix, The Independent, and BUST. Currently she is a senior editor at Oxygen, a cross-media network for women. She lives in New York City.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Pocket (May 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0671036866
• ISBN-13: 978-0671036867
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.3 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.7 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,830,704 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Definative anthropological guide to geeks of all ages, June 15, 2000

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This review is from: The Geek Handbook: User Guide and Documentation for the Geek in Your Life (Paperback)

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.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Now I can use my geek wisely!, May 2, 2000

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J. Davidson "dazzlingbetty" (Rhode Island, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Geek Handbook: User Guide and Documentation for the Geek in Your Life (Paperback)

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!

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Nothing like Stereo Instructions, December 9, 2000

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S. Donohue "Geekier than I want to be." (Allen Park, MI USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Geek Handbook: User Guide and Documentation for the Geek in Your Life (Paperback)

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.