Darkmistress's Full Review: Macintosh: The Naked Truth Books
~Review for PC users~
This is a bad book written by a paranoid Mac user trying to justify his purchase of an overpriced, under accessible machine simply because it comes in technicolor. I don’t know how this madman got this thing published, but you can assume it had something to do with smoking with the right people. You can now go to the bottom of the page and rate me Very Helpful as I have saved you from this terrible book. Ignore everything else I have written here. It’s not important to you, after all, you have the best PC going, right? Bye!
~Review for Mac People~
Run, right now, to the bookstore and grab a copy of this book. Call first to make sure they have a copy in stock as you don’t want to waste time driving around town and you certainly don’t want to wait for Amazon to deliver it. Two or three days wait is entirely too long. This book is utterly hysterical, absolutely enlightening and possibly a little paranoid, but I tend to be surrounded by Mac people so what do I know?
Ruin13 tipped me off to this book and the first thing I did was open in to read a few lines just to see if it was any good. I quote: "Before we get to the standard ‘Why I wrote this book’ stuff, let’s look at something juicier: ‘Why I used the word "naked" twice in the headline for this introduction.’ According to a comprehensive six-year study conducted at Calumet Neahy University, if you can manage to use the word ‘naked’ twice in the same paragraph, the person reading the paragraph will feel uncontrollably compelled to (a) buy whatever you’re selling, or (b) strip off all their clothes, then buy whatever you are selling. I don’t know how either of those could be a bad thing, so I went with the ‘double-naked slam dunk.’’ The rest of the book is written in the same rollicking style that had me laughing (quite loudly) throughout.
So after a taste of the prose I flipped back to the table of contents as the repeated mentions of the word ‘naked’ had not quite inspired me enough. On the way I wondered if he would have anything to say about my favorite nemesis, CompUSA. Lo and behold, Chapter 6: CompUSA: Your own private hell. And in reading the chapter I found (if this is even possible) even more reasons to hate CompUSA (as well as a very funny acronym which makes me smile every time I see the lit CompUSA sign which currently has a letter burned out so that it says Com USA.)
I had to read the book. And now you must read the book.
Why?
Are you browbeaten by PC users for your choice of computer? Would you like some facts and figures to hit back with?
Would you like to feel less alone in your computing choice?
Would you like to gain back some pride in owning the best computer system going despite the fact that you can’t play many games on it?
Do you feel disloyal when you groan at an Apple management decision?
Would you like to know once and for all if you are truly a Mac Person or a pod person, ahem, PC user? (There’s a test for that.)
Would you like to learn a few survival tricks which you may or may not have already figured out on your own?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, you need this book. What are you still doing here? Go, now! Wait, rate me first, then go. Or rate me when you get back. I don’t care.
An irreverent, off-the-wall, PC-slammin', totally-biased look at Apple, and what it's like to be a Mac user stuck in a Windows dominated world. "Macin...More at Alibris
An irreverent, off-the-wall, PC-slammin', totally-biased look at Apple, and what it's like to be a Mac user stuck in a Windows dominated world. "Macin...More at Alibris
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