March 17, 2013: 'Revenge of the Nerd' by John McNamara So I randomly decided to pick up this book when roaming around the library, mostly because of the title. I have always considered myself a bit of a nerd at heart :).
Anyway so I got this book, it was an extremely easy read (I needed something easy to read after the first two books) of a classic story line of a Nerd in high school, Bertram, and how he loves the classically beautiful blond, Louise, (who somehow is good a science, yes I know that doesn't make any sense.. what blond is good at science? ....i am just kidding i hope you know that). Every time he goes to talk to this amazing girl he "can't put a noun and verb together to save my life".
And when he isn't messing it all up for himself with this girl his arch nemesis Mike Godey is tripping him, calling him names, and just in general trying to make him look bad. Finally, after a prank by Mike involving a fake love letter that looks like it is from Louise that ends with everyone (including Louise) laughing at him, he decides that he can take it no more and that he will get his revenge on them all.
He ends up figuring out a way to transmit a live video feed to other people's TVs from his room and this is what he does to Louise, Mike, and two of Mike's friends who were also in on the prank. He dresses up as an alien and changes his voice and ends up convincing them that they are being contacted by another world and that they have a very special mission to do.
If you follow the whole idea of the classic story line it shouldn't be hard to figure out how this all ends. Turns out that while revenge seems sweet sometimes it doesn't get you all that you every hoped that it would.
Overall, it was a nice classic, funny, and easy read. Next book up is 'Ripple Effect' by Paul McCusker. That's all for now!
~Michaela Jane
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