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title = "The Geek's Guide to Dating - Eric Smith"
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date = 2021-03-23
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tags = ["books", "reviews", "books:2021", "stars:4", "edition:2013", "self-help"]
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[GoodReads Summary](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17568806-the-geek-s-guide-to-dating):
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You keep your action figures in their original packaging. Your bedsheets are
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officially licensed Star Wars merchandise. You're hooked on Elder Scrolls and
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Metal Gear but now you've discovered an even bigger obsession: the new girl who
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just moved in down the hall. What's a geek to do? Take some tips from Eric Smith
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in The Geek's Guide to Dating. This hilarious primer leads geeks of all ages
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through the perils and pitfalls of meeting women, going on dates, getting
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serious, breaking up, and establishing a successful lifelong relationship (hint:
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it's time to invest in new bedsheets). Full of whimsical 8-bit illustrations,
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The Geek's Guide to Dating will teach fanboys everywhere to love long and
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prosper.
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{{ stars(stars=3) }}
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I have to be honest: The first 1/3 of the book was quite boring. If you ever
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read any other dating-advice book, there is a lot of same tips: Listen to her,
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find some common ground, etc, etc, etc. All that with heavy drops of geek/nerd
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culture: game references, movie references, book references and the continuous
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use of referring to the reader as "Player One" (ok, I get it: People are trying
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to get their "Player Two", but heck, calm the freaking down).
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The later parts are a bit better, going off the common ground: casual dating,
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second date, how to dress, how to make things work when things get serious, what
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you should be looking for a long term relationship and how to act when things
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fall down -- either by your own decision or theirs.
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But there is something off here: Sure, it is somewhat fun getting ideas using
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analogies based on nerd stuff (again, games, movies and books), but the whole
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thing seems focused on geek guys, and I feel it would be really interesting, as
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a guy, to understand the female perspective of this all. The book tries
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(*tries*) to make things a bit less biased by adding a disclaimer that geek
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girls can also read the book, and should just replace the "she/her" to
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"he/him" -- which absolutely does not work on some chapters, like the "How to
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Dress" part.
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And yes, the heavy use of drop/nerd references in the first half does not help
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the lighter use in the second half: You're already tired of reading about Mario
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or Sonic or whatever.
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I'm going to give a 3 star just because it does the extra mile of going to
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different ideas of dating (serious vs casual), dealing with things going serious
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and breakups.
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