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Geek Redemption [Paperback]

Johnny Dupa (Author)
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Book Description

March 1999
Just what is wrong with being a geek? Don't geeks at least all have jobs, and don't some of them get rich? Well, if there is really anyone out there who doesn't know just what is wrong with being a geek, this book should be a big help. It presents general narrative descriptions of geek characteristics and history and then completes this cavalcade by giving a series of bizarre anecdotes about the foibles of specific geeks.

Suppose you went to sleep one night and suffered instant amnesia, waking up to find yourself trapped in the horrid body and life of a nerd? You look in the mirror and see a pale, skinny person with thick Coke-bottle eyeglasses and preposterously unappealing clothes. You must constantly be on the lookout for bullies, can't play sports, and have a miserable personality. Just to make matters worse, what if you are possessed by bone-crushing horniness, but no one attractive will give you the time of day? This is how many of us wake up every morning.

It would seem to make the most sense to immediately make radical and thorough changes to divest oneself of nerdhood and to acquire the characteristics of a cool person. The elements of this redemption are obvious, the methods more elusive. How does one gain muscles in order to achieve a more average appearance? How does one choose decent clothes, get good at sports, get a tan, and learn some social graces? Perhaps Geek Redemption is the answer.

Geek Redemption outlines and identifies in a humorous way, all of the many unsavory characteristics of geeks. It goes on to provide a tried and true pathway to de-louse oneself of geek characteristics and to re-emerge as a totally different person.

Since geeks have very identifiable characteristics, it would seem to be immediately possible to begin the process of Geek Redemption by simply reversing those characteristics. The eager redemptee should begin by taking a shower, getting a haircut, shaving, burning his nerd rags, dressing for success, getting a tan, and building some muscles, among many other things. Once having begun this process, the redemptee is ready to begin constructing The Three Pillars of Geek Redemption. These are Presentation Redemption, Social Redemption, and Physical Redemption.

Presentation Redemption encompasses the choice of clothes, grooming, and many personal accessories that fall in the same avenue as dressing for success. Nerds consistently make certain wardrobe blunders that can be easily corrected. Some of the more obvious ones include scroungy long hair, beards, or a pony tail; sandals; plaid madness; high-water pants over nerd fur; and polyester proliferation.

Social Redemption includes decorum and comportment at work and how to deal with the unredeemed geeks around you. It also includes a better way to attract women.

When you get right down to it, Presentation Redemption and Social Redemption, while both being necessary, can only take you so far. The pillar that puts reality into the whole process is Physical Redemption. Physical Redemption is the dimension of the physique. Physique is what gives clothes something to enhance. Improving the physique also improves the body's radiant sexual energy and attractiveness. The exercises involved improve coordination and posture. The process helps to change one's personality for the better and leads to enhanced self esteem and respect. All of these things reflect in better esteem from others.

Bodybuilding in reasonable amounts produces an appearance that is exceptionally pleasing. Progressive resistance weight training is the approach to gain this appearance. The nerd's first goal is to achieve an appearance of normalcy. At that point, superiority becomes possible. Weight training is also excellent preparation for sports. Though they horrify the average nerd, sports also tend to enhance a person's attitude, self-possession, and physique.

By far, most nerds are of the emaciated variety. Achieving a more normal appearance is beastly difficult for us. Nevertheless, it is possible. To achieve a normal appearance, the redemptee will strive to correct the typical nerd flaws that include pencil neck, beer gut, love handles, girly-man arms, sunken chest, bird legs, and buttlessness. When the redemptee is ready to push on to excellence, the desired characteristics include broad shoulders, a deep chest, tapered back, flat stomach, and muscular arms and legs.

The reader is invited to drop in, to be entertained, and then to stay to progress along the path to Geek Redemption.


Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

AAM Press is proud to offer Geek Redemption as our first effort at book publishing. This is a book that will both entertain and inform. We have worked very hard to make certain that the writing, editing, illustrating, and production are all of professional quality. Please buy it, enjoy it, and good luck with your own redemption. Or perhaps you will find Geek Redemption to be an excellent present for that certain geek you might know. AAM Press is looking forward to providing a useful and enjoyable experience to our readers.

From the Author

For long years and years, I sat in a tiny airless and lightless office deep within the bowels of an old and decrepit government building. My daily task was to develop computer software for the Space Program. This office was so small, dark, dirty, and foul that had inmates from death row been put there, the ACLU would certainly have sued. Truly, the isolation cells in block D of Alcatraz provided more inviting quarters.

Trapped in the nasty environment day after day, my only escape was within the world of the imagination. Each day, my mind would wander to the possibilities of liberation from the geekism that had entrapped me into that office. My thoughts touched on every little detail that condemn a person to be a geek, and what those details would be like for a person who was truly cool. I imagined being the creator of a chain of Geek Redemption centers, boot-camps for nerds where nerds, geeks, dorks, dweebs, and spastics could be whipped into shape by well-built drill sergeants. No, make that by beautiful Amazons, who could humiliate the nerds and twist pain into their stick-like arms at will.

This collection of imaginings grew like ivy until my brain and memory could no longer hold it all. It was necessary to write it all down. But why not publish it? Why not take the first step toward this dream by putting it all into a book?

The book is done and is available for your approval. I hope you will join me in this journey, this Escape from Geekland.

--Johnny Dupa


Product Details

  • Paperback: 250 pages
  • Publisher: Aam Pr; 1st edition (March 1999)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0967008808
  • ISBN-13: 978-0967008806
  • Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,447,373 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A beacon in the nerdiness, guiding all geeks to a new life!, April 27, 1999
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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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5.0 out of 5 stars Geek Redemption, October 31, 2005
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I found this book very amusing and entertaining. It was easy reading and the perfect vacation book. After reading the book, I have come to believe that there is a "little bit of geek" in all of us.
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5.0 out of 5 stars This is not your typical self-help book., April 30, 1999
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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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