THIS EDITION IS INTENDED FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Describes how two 19-year-old, working-class kids from a small town in Idaho overcame their lives as outsiders, and reveals how they are using the Internet to redefine themselves and change tAmazon.com Review
Teenage hackers Jesse Dailey and Eric Twilegar are the heroes of Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet out of Idaho, a thoughtful, affecting pop ethnography–and heroes is exactly wh… More >>
Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode The Internet Out Of Idaho
Mr. Katz thinks he knows all about geeks, and wants to put them under glass and show them to everybody like circus animals in this book, but misses the point entirely. Like his previous books, his writing style is convoluted and unnecessarily pedantic, and will only contribute to giving unnecessary negative attention to geeky people. Like his upcoming book “voices from the hellmouth” where mr. Katz republished many excerpts from slashdot without their author’s consent or prior announcement, this book only serves his self-promotion.
Rating: 2 / 5
I am a big Slashdot fan and was looking forward to this book. I think that Mr. Katz spent too much time telling and explaining and not enough time telling the story. I don’t need the point of a book spoon-fed to me.
Rating: 3 / 5
This book is pretty naive. Work for the local computer shop, don’t go to college and you will end up at the University of Chicago (?)
Yes, and you might win the lottery too ;-)
These guys told Katz a lot of lies about the Internet and various kinds of computer hardware and he just stuck it right in the book.
Shame on you kids.
Rating: 1 / 5
this book changed my life. there’s not a single person in the country who SHOULDN’T read it.
Rating: 5 / 5
Tbe blunt truth about this book is that it is a poor read. Among the many flaws that this book had was there was no “real” story to tell.
Rating: 1 / 5