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Title: Count Me Out
Review: Sorry, but this geek is not jumping on the geekwagon. Despite being sub'ed Adventures in Adolescence, many of the anecdotes actually deal with the author's pre-adolescent years, coming of age-olescence if you will, and frankly they are the funnier entries. (But am I wrong to doubt that the author could really start having orgasmic experiences at age 7?) The biggest problem is that the germ obsession sets the author apart from the typical geek, who would have gladly braved a little [spoiler warning here] puke breath to make out with a cute girl, and way too many of the experiences described in the book deal with that phobia. There are 2-3 laugh out loud passages, 6-8 cleverly turned phrases, but they don't make up for the laborious redundancies - Bill, we get it about the rope, enough with the "25 foot lover" references, the repeated return to the mincing descriptions, etc.
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