Every weekday throughout the month of December the whole TN team is sharing gift ideas we have that don’t suck. Because no one has time to give, receive or return a sucky gift!
If you are like me, you may have a friend or two that doesn’t quite fit the bill of the hip nerd or pop culture geek chic — they are proper geeks. These friends, you love them dearly, but wish you could speak to them at a level of true geekdom understanding to help them out in their love life. Enter The Geek’s Guide to Dating by Eric Smith.
While the idea of putting together a super computer that can magically create the girl or guy of your dreams by feeding it magazine cut outs of all your favorite parts of other people does sound tempting, buying Eric Smith’s guide for yourself, friend, brother or sister may be a tad bit easier.
With this book, learn to:
- Identify you brand of geek – Are you the Comic Book Geek or the History and Politics Geek?
- Where to meet girls (or guys) – Improving upon your internet dating profile (aka less pictures of you with your unopened limited edition Avengers
figurinesAction Figures) - Engage the opposite sex (or perhaps the same sex) – Gradually letting your freak flag fly high while making conversation
- Dress to impress – Are you going for more of a Han Solo look or Tony Stark?
- Survive the first date – Questions to ask to keep the conversation going like: “If you needed bail money, who would you call?” and more fantastic ice breakers
- AND MUCH, MUCH, MORE!
The book engages the reader like you are player one in a real life video game (a metaphor for every day life? Perhaps.) With a fun tongue-in-cheek tone, the book is an amusing read whether you get the Cylon references or not (and I do!)
The Geek’s Guide to Dating is a welcome gift to proper geeks, pop culture geeks and hipster geeks and makes a fun conversation piece to break the ice with that cute girl with the “Doctor Who” t-shirt you spied in the bookstore.
The Geek’s Guide to Dating comes out today and is available online, in stores and even in Canada! Check it out.
