Are You A Geek?

by Tim Collins

Are You A Geek? is the ultimate humour book. It will appeal to the inner geek in all of us.

Listing 1,000 things people do that qualify them as geeks, the truths shared about obsessive behavious will be recognised by all with a pang of guilt and strike a chord with a wide audience in these nerdy times. Grading geek behaviour with a one to five point scale depending on their severity, readers can add up their scores, find out how much of a geek they are, and fill out one of the five certificates at the back of the book.

Are you a Geek? Read the book and find out...

Genres: Reference

144 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2005

Reviews

[Manny · Rating 4 out of 5]

A few questions that didn't make it into this book:

What is the funniest thing you've ever read?

- Three Men in a Boat. (0 points)

- Terry Pratchett's Discworld series. (1 point)

- Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, and you then list all 38 books in order of how funny you think they are. (3 points)

- Roger Penrose's The Road to Reality. The way he disses the string theorists is hysterical, needless to say, but the high point is the section where he gets confused about K-meson decay. That just had me ROFLing. (5 points)

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[Krystine · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's really nothing more than a glorified quiz thing to determine your level of geekiness, but it's surprisingly fun. Only issue was my version was from 2005 and a bit outdated for 2017.

For the record, my score was only 176: "Not a Geek: it is safe to speak to this person."

[Billy · Rating 3 out of 5]

This books is *actually* titled "10^3 Ways to Find Out."

A sample question: "Have you ever left a party saying you had a headache when you really just wanted to go home and read?" 5 points

[Sonia · Rating 5 out of 5]

Absolutely hillarious!! I never felt to identified with a book before. It was like going to a shrink, but without feeling weird about it. I even had a competition with friends to see who was the geekiest of us all!

[TK Keanini · Rating 3 out of 5]

I got this book from my loving wife for my birthday. I wonder what she is trying to tell me. I stand proud and represent geeks everywhere.

[Amory · Rating 1 out of 5]

Childish repetitive schoolboy nonsense that goes on and on and on....