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The Geek's guide to World Domination by Garth Sundem 1 star
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I love a great one star review! So sorry this book was awful. I am quite convinced by your review that I shouldnt touch it with a ten foot pole! Especially since I share your compulsion about finishing books AND I am especially particular about books classified as humor.I did enjoy hearing about the personal challenges of being a woman in a male dominated field. Good for you for making it work. I feel future generations will see this much less often. My son is in data science (healthcare industry), and he is a minority there as a male! His boss and his boss' boss (the dept head and vp) are women as are most of the analysts.
Anita wrote: "I love a great one star review! So sorry this book was awful. I am quite convinced by your review that I shouldnt touch it with a ten foot pole! Especially since I share your compulsion about finis..."I hate giving 1 star reviews but I couldn't help it on this one. There were a few interesting pieces of trivia but I felt like they weren't properly researched. I read through other reviews after I did mind and several people pointed out mistakes in the book.
I love data science!! That's awesome for your son. The healthcare industry is great for the number of women in it and in high level positions. I worked as a Dir of Business Intelligence for a healthcare company before I became a vendor at Microsoft. I miss being surrounded by strong women.
Yikes! I kind of want to get this book from the library so I can hate read it. It sounds so bad! Things have improved for girl geeks in my lifetime, but there is still so much work to do. There are some great comic shops in my town but also a few I won't go into because the male staff make me so uncomfortable. And cons... Ugh. I love them but they can be awful.
Also love a good 1 star review, but sorry that you felt compelled to finish it. I’ve also worked in tech for most of my career. In my current job, I am 1 of 2 women on the mgmt staff. In addition, most of the folks were not raised in the US, which makes cultural references a bit funny sometimes.
I'll pass--thanks for taking the hit for us!
Great review - considering starting a "DO NOT READ" shelf for reviews like these. Guess the rest of us dodged a bullet.
Your review was very enjoyable so considering that, glad you read it.
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I hated it and certain parts or what I would consider missing parts pissed me off. "for men" or "male" should have been added to the title. I think it's ironic that our April tag is strong women and this book was the opposite to that. It was SOOO male focused.
I work in tech. I'm routinely the only women in the meeting and am one of 5 women on my 40 person team. The company I'm a vendor for only has 25% women and my company is even worse. I deal with being a woman living in a man's world and have always considered myself a geek. Additionally, after having the chauvinism and challenges of living in this world as part of my daily life, the last thing I want to do is deal with it in a book I'm reading in my free time. I almost stopped reading it but I'm so OCD about finishing books that I've started.
Beyond the fact that there is no rhyme or reason for the order that the random facts, trivia, and opinions are presented in the book. He passed off things as fact when really it was just his opinion. I felt like this was more of a book to present things that he thought was cool. What does making maple syrup have to do with being a geek?!? Back to the male-centric aspect of the book... if you are going to talk about Boy Scout merit badges, levels and things that they do, then why not also provide the same information about Girl Scouts?!? I was in Girl Scouts and was definitely considered a geek for it, but I didn't care. Also, he provided a list of cartoon characters he thought was hot (all women of course) and gave guys tips on how to pick up women.. these tips are easily transferable to both genders to help with socializing with others and not just picking up women.
I think the first 'chapter' that really started my annoyance with this book is the 'Ten Sports Requiring Almost No Physical Exertion'.. it is the first one that made me realize that most of what this guy is saying is his opinion and after that I started taking the rest of the 'facts' with a grain of salt. On his list of 'Ten Sports...' he listed several sports like, NASCAR, Yachting, and Cricket that I know for a fact require physical exertion. There is absolute nothing that backs up his assertion that they don't. His reasoning made me feel like he is just ignorant in a lot of things and states his opinion as fact.
I feel like with a lot of his chapters he tries to be funny and the book is on humor shelves and lists but I think his jokes just fall flat. I thought he was more ignorant and insulting than he was funny.