{"product_id":"9781250113948","title":"Revenge of the Nerd: Or . . . The Singular Adventures of the Man Who Would Be Booger","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRisky Business. Revenge of the Nerds. Better Off Dead. Moonlighting. Supernatural. American Dad. New Girl. \u003c\/i\u003eWhat do all of these movies and television shows have in common?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCurtis Armstrong.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA legendary comedic second banana to a litany of major stars, Curtis is forever cemented in the public imagination as Booger from \u003ci\u003eRevenge of the Nerds\u003c\/i\u003e. A classically trained actor, Curtis began his incredible 40-year career on stage but progressed rapidly to film and television. He was typecast early and it proved to be the best thing that could have happened. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut there’s \u003ci\u003emore\u003c\/i\u003e to Curtis’ story than that. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn and bred a nerd, he spent his early years between Detroit, a city so nerdy that the word was coined there in 1951, and, improbably, Geneva, Switzerland. His adolescence and early adulthood was spent primarily between the covers of a book and indulging his nerdy obsessions. It was only when he found his true calling, as an actor and unintentional nerd icon, that he found true happiness. With whip-smart, self-effacing humor, Armstrong takes us on a most unlikely journey—one nerd’s hilarious, often touching rise to the middle. He started his life as an outcast and matured into…well, an older, slightly paunchier, hopefully wiser outcast.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Hollywood, as in life, that counts as winning the game.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47024526590192,"sku":"9781250113948","price":17.62,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781250113948_p0.jpg?v=1763702664","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781250113948","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}