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    <body><![CDATA[Geeks by Jon Katz<br/><br/>The author bugs two guys from Idaho into moving “out into the world.” He wants them to know and experience the bigger world out there.<br/><br/>Aspects that appeal to teens:<br/>Moving out on your own, making your own way in the world.<br/><br/>Will teens relate...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41571904">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I just loved this story about two computer geeks that worked together in a dead-end job in a computer store in Idaho.  They wind up in Chicago in more dead-end jobs and far away from the life they want to lead.  How they evolve and how they shake their small town, small time lives is wonderfully wri...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16451717">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Great look at the world of geeks circa 1999. At a time when internet access was mainly for academics and geek culture, <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://Slashdot.org">Slashdot.org</a> just coming into prominence, and the computing world ablaze, we follow the author and 2 teenagers from Idaho on their journey into Chicago and the world. Interesting ho...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34952048">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[     <u>Geeks</u>, by John Katz, is a great book about the life of two geeks, Eric and Jesse, move out of Idaho. It started as a mission to define what &quot;geek&quot; meant, gut then the plot changes when---never mind! I don't want to spoil the surprise!---Anyway, it also talks a little about the effects...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32915764">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I hate to give this book a rating as it may well be very good, just not my type of read. It is a true story of two &quot;geeks&quot; who one day while looking at their peers realized ,&quot;I am a geek...I will never be like them...&quot; Through this self realization, they found peace and self conf...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58252367">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Good book if you are interested in 1. technology, 2. boise, 3. slash-dot or rolling stone magazine, 4. chicago. Maybe not quite as good if you do not care about any of those subjects. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[wow this book is so crazy but so real. be a geek be proud. the world needs us without us no nothin. this book is basicly is about 2 boys ho rule and boys rode.<br/>]]></body>
    
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