I had the pleasure of meeting Phil Plait at a convention many years ago when I purchased his informative book, Bad Astronomy, which should be in the required curriculum of any school discipline. Keep us entertained Phil. P.S. I did have to peek in the back of the book for some of the more obscure terms from days gone by. But I actually retained more than I could have imagined. You can, contrary to popular belief, have lived in the sixties and actually have a memory of too many, yet never enough, hours spent gleaning information from scientific journals and textbooks.

But nothing outstanding, many jokes feel forced and extremely specific, but it is a good buy considering the small cost.

Despite the cool authors, a lot of the jokes were mediocre at best. Sorry guys.

We've needed a book like this for a long time. Should have been an app instead of a book so we can use an algorithim to determine the most effective insult for a situation.

Made me laugh repeatedly. Which is the entire point of the book. May have been endlessly more helpful in high school. But unfortunately, my time machine is in the shop (again!).

this is twenty words describing the small but measurable increase in my quality of life, having read this fine book.

Have you ever been in an argument and had a stinging zinger of a remark that would have left the other party completely devastated? I’m sure plenty of socially-awkward nerds have been in this situation, which is probably why this book exists in the first place. 27 Nerd Disses is a small collection of witty comebacks that cover a variety of brainy topics. From economics to mathematics, all 128 of these insults require some amount of knowledge of their source material to get the joke they’re trying to make. Unfortunately, this book contains some knowledge at levels higher than a basic college education.

While I understood a good majority of the nerdy references in this book, the parts of these disses that I had trouble with were the references that the uncultured masses were likely comparing these heady subjects to. This ends up being the problematic crux of this book: to get the joke, you have to know the nerdy reference and the common confusion related to its naming. A lot of the times, I completely missed the low-brow part of the joke, and the appendix that explained all the geek speak of the jokes hardly ever broached these misunderstandings.

Furthermore, the fact that there needs to be an appendix on a book of jokes that explains them defeats the purpose of the jokes in the first place. It doesn’t help that the explanations don’t do their subject matter justice. Many of them felt like “Oh, you didn’t get this joke about some principle in physics? Well, the joke is that this is a principle in physics and not some homophone.” I’ll admit that at least a few of these disses were clever, and at least one made me laugh out loud, but overall this was probably a book that didn’t need to be written.

A book full of jokes most people wouldn’t get, I give 2⁷ Nerd Disses 2.0 stars out of 5.

I used to have lots of friends, but now, thanks to this great book, I don't! Now that everyone has been driven away by my mind-blowing disses, I can finally science in peace.

Short, funny if you can understand it (I could not get all of them).

Fortunately there is an explanation part at the back.

Gewohnt flapsig und witzig kommt diese Spruchsammlung daher.

Obwohl etwas kurz und auch teilweise mit sehr angestrengt wirkenden Sprüchen.

Für den Preis aber vollkommen in Ordnung.

Warnung! Wer dem Physikunterricht nicht folgen mochte/konnte, bei dem fallen die Witze flach.

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This collection of sayings comes in flippant and funny - as I'm used to.

Although a bit short and also with some very hard acting sayings.

But perfectly OK for the price.

Warning! The jokes fall flat to those who did not like/were not able to follow the physics lessons.

Skip the "disses" and you have a kind of okay-ish little-pieces-of-knowledge-collection.

The first part is just not funny at all.