Welcome to the Nerd Farm! A Doonesbury Book (Volume 29)
by G. B. Trudeau
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- Paperback
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- ISBN 10
- 0740768506
- ISBN 13
- 9780740768507
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Synopsis
In Welcome to the Nerd Farm!: A Doonesbury Book life comes full circle as another Doonesbury Gen Nexer heads for college. With Zipper way-too-deeply embedded at Walden (America's number-one safety school) Alex boldly opts for MIT, the nerdfarm, where 30-hour study binges are de rigueur. Daily 911 calls home and a sense of doom (Just get some duct tape, roll me up in my bedspread, and ship me home . . .) give way as Gal Doonesbury finds fellowship among the similarly exhausted: No nerd left behind, explains roomie Drew, as they co-brainstorm their way through finals. The indomitable Granny D struggles with a life change as well; the move from sunny Oklahoma to live with Mike and Kim in saturated, caffeinated Seattle leaves her distinctly unbuzzed. Then there's the on-air unraveling of Mark and Chase's marriage (I'm tired of living with a Nazi!), with Joanie handling the technicalities of dissolving a legally nonexistent union. Equally traumatic is Uncle Duke's change of status, emerging from a months-long stupor to find himself pulling down six figures as a K Street lobbyist-and reregistering as a Democrat. Also shifting kin groups is B.D., who reluctantly joins PTSD group therapy, where Dex, Kurt, and Jason call him on much-needed 'tude adjustments. But there are signs of improvement: I didn't explode! he exults, after finding Zipper living in his office. That homeless yet ebulliently overoptimistic undergrad is deeply smitten with Alex, but is dangerously far ahead of her--picking out their future tabloid nickname before she even knows they're an item. Understandably, her considerable attention is focused elsewhere--on surviving MIT's killer grind and on the Battle of the Bots, a high-tech smackdown where she unleashes Alfie, an impudent, high-end hoverbot. Bring it, techgirl.
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- Bookseller
- Montclair Book Center (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 227807
- Title
- Welcome to the Nerd Farm! A Doonesbury Book (Volume 29)
- Author
- G. B. Trudeau
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- USED Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0740768506
- ISBN 13
- 9780740768507
- Publisher
- Andrews McMeel Publishing
- Place of Publication
- Kansas City, MO
- Date Published
- December 2007
- Pages
- 152
- LCCN
- 2007925787
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