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Summary: Techies Unite: Helen Sweetheart of the Internet
Review: I thoroughly enjoyed this witty collection of high-tech office/real life humor. Once you start reading, it's hard to put the book down. (It's like you just want to read ONE more strip ... okay, just one more ... and one more.) The main character, Helen, is intelligent, beautiful, powerful, and yet vulnerable. There's a little bit of Helen in every computer-literate woman/girl you know. In addition to the book's timely subjects, which include hilarious celebrity guest appearances, I was also charmed by the author's brief tongue-in-cheek commentaries that so aptly introduced each chapter. ENJOY!
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Summary: Absolutely delightful
Review: I've been a fan of Helen's for years & this book is the culmination of all those years of enjoyment. If I was a techie, I'd want to be just like Helen. I find myself silently cheering her on as she says & does all those things I wish I could. She's beautiful, smart,& she says EXACTLY what she thinking! This is a VERY funny book - even if you're not a computer guru!
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Summary: People, technology and revolution!
Review: I've separated my book into nine chapters to reflect the different mental or emotional states I perceive are involved in the average person's experience with technology and the Internet. "Power", "Paranoia", "Anonymous Intimacy", etc. are the human side of the techie experience, and "Helen, Sweetheart of the Internet" - while being as computer savvy as my nine years in the field can make it - is about nothing if not human beings.The title "Techies Unite!" is a playful attempt on my part to link the tech "revolution" with the middle-class revolutions of the French and the Russians, i.e. a revolt of people who discover they already have the de facto power in the world.
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Summary: A geek... a beauty... she's not to be trifled with
Review: If you caught Helen when she was the Sweetheart of the Internet and available only on the Web, you already know she is a genius not to be trifled with. She is headstrong, female and beautiful, and she takes no guff from anyone. The Internet was a perfect place for Helen. She is capable of meeting Bill Gates at hacker conventions held so far underground that participants have to take an elevator up to the sublevel parking garage in order to leave. Gates creeps around her back door looking for sympathy when the Feds go after him (she's not the right one to ask for sympathy). Now Helen has been reborn in syndication more as a generic super techie than a Web denizen, but since that's really what she's always been, the translation to paper went smoothly. This book is a great, sometimes goofy celebration of geekdom. If you've ever wondered if geeks, nerds and techies can be sexy, funny and wonderful, here's your answer. Her name is Helen. This book collects some fine, funny strips from one of the best post-Dilbert comic universes of all. Highly recommended!
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Summary: A geek... a beauty... she's not to be trifled with
Review: If you caught Helen when she was the Sweetheart of the Internet and available only on the Web, you already know she is a genius not to be trifled with. She is headstrong, female and beautiful, and she takes no guff from anyone. The Internet was a perfect place for Helen. She is capable of meeting Bill Gates at hacker conventions held so far underground that participants have to take an elevator up to the sublevel parking garage in order to leave. Gates creeps around her back door looking for sympathy when the Feds go after him (she's not the right one to ask for sympathy). Now Helen has been reborn in syndication more as a generic super techie than a Web denizen, but since that's really what she's always been, the translation to paper went smoothly. This book is a great, sometimes goofy celebration of geekdom. If you've ever wondered if geeks, nerds and techies can be sexy, funny and wonderful, here's your answer. Her name is Helen. This book collects some fine, funny strips from one of the best post-Dilbert comic universes of all. Highly recommended!
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Summary: Helen rules.
Review: In surfing the web you have failed to run across Helen and the imaginative drawings of Peter Zale, you're about to discover the real power behind the internet. Helen is the essence of the modern CIO, brash, always right, incredibly powerful. The only glass ceiling Helen recognizes the the one below her. Helen isn't afraid to be herself, but still manages to portray the joint lost feeling that the modern IT professional often finds themselves in. In Helen, Peter Zale has managed to capture the mood and humor inherent in this wired world (which, bTW, Helen doesn't read anymore. Peters creations have just enough of that ring of truth to make most people laugh, and to even bring a smile to grizzled old CFOs. Do yourself a favor, buy this book and meet Helen
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Summary: Dilbert's Boss
Review: Its not by accident. Someone knows where this is going. Across the neon plateau's of sound transparent Dilbert cubes the whining from the thoughtless put upons increases as annual reviews roll in..."To you, the detritus of evolution...your technical guide, author and editor of your performance, believes you are not here to work, but to fill a position. My potted plants and bookshelf need your space. Please become a drag to our competitors, you will not be missed." Thank you.
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Summary: Helen rules
Review: Literally. Through this strip you will come to understand that the true power in the universe rests in the hands of the geeks in dark rooms. Absolutely hilarious!
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Summary: readers unite!
Review: Peter Zale's "Helen, Sweetheart of the Internet" is a very cool strip. Gotta love Helen--so nice to see a strong female character with mechanical ability for once. Grouping the strips into categories was a smart move on the author's part. Makes this book more readable that the usual book of comic strips.
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Summary: readers unite!
Review: Peter Zale's "Helen, Sweetheart of the Internet" is a very cool strip. Gotta love Helen--so nice to see a strong female character with mechanical ability for once. Grouping the strips into categories was a smart move on the author's part. Makes this book more readable that the usual book of comic strips.
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