Product Description

Trudeau is a great comic writer whose devotion to politics and capacity for moral outrage are apparently undiminished after 37 years." -New York Times Book Review

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #424594 in Books
• Published on: 2007-12-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 152 pages

About the Author
G.B. Trudeau's Doonesbury has tracked and explored forty years of American culture through six wars and eight presidential administrations.

Customer Reviews

Another Doonesbury Collection: How Can You Go Wrong?
Wonderful stuff from one of the most important American writers. (Yes, I said "writers"!) Garry Trudeau has been at this his entire adult life, and it just gets better and better. Following multiple story lines, his latest assemblage is packed with funny and revealing strips. Can't be recommended highly enough!

Strong Strips Mixed with Middling Ones
After the great compilation "Heckuva Job, Bushie!" I was hoping for more of the same with "Welcome to the Nerd Farm." While "Nerd" features some strong strips dealing with aging parents, kids in college, and Bush's continued refusal to recognize the problems with our war in Irag, it also features a weak set of strips dealing with Mark's 'divorce' from Chase, and wastes a good amount of time on the status of Uncle Duke while he's in a semi-comatose period.

I recommend the collection, but not as much as I did 'Bushie!'

still grounded in real life
I have been reading Doonesbury since the first book I found in "Shakespeare and Co" in the late 70s in Paris. The latest one about life in college now is great, as usual. G Trudeau should publish more often and his books are hard to find in bookstores this is why Amazon is so useful.