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5 Works 225 Membros 2 Críticas

About the Author

Alec Foege lives in New York. A former senior editor at Spin, he has also written for many other publications, including Rolling Stone, The New York Times, and Variety.

Inclui os nomes: Alc Fog, Alex Foege

Image credit: Credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008

Obras por Alec Foege

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male

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I like the premise of the book and it started strong. Tinkerers are cool! Hey, I'm a tinkerer, too! It brought back memories of my mom pushing me to be more mechanically inclined and tinker with electronics (instead of watching television)... I still consider myself a tinkerer - a tinkerer of spreadsheets.

I did enjoy some of the histories of some of the tinkerers. Maybe I just had different expectations but I don't have a grasp of really what the book is trying to tell me.

It's an OK book. Just one I'm likely to forget in a couple days.… (mais)
 
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wellington299 | 1 outra crítica | Feb 19, 2022 |
Not terrible, not great, not what I expected. Like other reviewers I've found online, my definition of a tinkerer seems to be completely different from the author's. Except for Foege's story about fixing his own cell phone, there is hardly an amateur or a DIYer in sight for the rest of the book. Inventors, yes, and innovators, who are mostly involved with big government or big business. I was hoping for more information about the sorts of people whose projects get into Make Magazine; and as a librarian, I was hoping to get more background on the sorts of things one might make available in a library's maker space. Instead I found myself reading about the history of the interstate highway system, among other things.

I received an electronic galley of this book for free, but received no other compensation for this review.
… (mais)
 
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EricaSJ | 1 outra crítica | Jan 8, 2014 |

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Obras
5
Membros
225
Popularidade
#99,815
Avaliação
½ 3.4
Críticas
2
ISBN
8
Línguas
1

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