I feel for the tree that gave its life for this

Lets be honest, I love nonfiction, I thrive on information and interesting facts, so the Geek's guide sounded like the perfect treat for me. Sadly after just ten minutes I had completed the book and was disappointed to the core. No I'm not the fastest speed reader around, rather I already knew large chunks of this book from my youth. For example there is a whole page given over to making shadow puppets with your hands, no not clever shadows of Yoda or Harry Potter, I'm talking really old pre-school shapes such as a bird. Honestly its so hard to explain how dire this book is.

A book aimed at geeks or at least geeks in training, I'd expect some very powerful modern stuff, or even interesting twists to history such as can be found in 'An Underground Education', but this book is merely a collection of puzzles from Samuel Loyd's books (and he died back in 1911) so you get an idea of just how dated parts of this book are and others are ripped off from other easily available information sources. Some information I learnt as a child and still consider to be part of childhood, a few pages are from a scientific encyclopedia and there's a page of sixteen text message abbreviations (OMG). Oh, and remember english spelling lessons 'i before e except after c...' and all that? Well I do, and its also in here. This review took longer to complete than this book, honestly there really isn't anything new or interesting in this title, which is such a terrible shame.

I cannot recommend this rubbish, its simply a waste of pulp, no good even as toilet paper - truly dire.

1/10