Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Move over James Frey and make room next to A Million Little Pieces. Here is the biggest literary scam of the year. This thing has been on the best sellers list forever, why? I'm sure the "boys" didn't put it there. No, parents out of a real sense of duty to their boys (or girls) have bought this book by the millions to.. What? get them back to normal? Back in fighting form? Back to Huck and Tom shape? I do believe the art of being a boy might be getting lost. But contrary to restoring that "art" this book seeks to cover it in several layers of eggshell white. Sure there is a neat page on trip wires but where are the animal traps? They mention a Swiss Army Knife but not the finer points of rope, twine and string. Wrapping things in brown paper? Yes. Making a boomerang? No!!. Poems? Yes. Slingshot? No. Shakespeare, Marbling paper? Yes, Yes. Lassos, sharpening a knife? No and No. Grinding an calligraphy pen nib (ohhh Dangerous!) making a kite? Nope too scary I guess. I can't wait for the second volume, sure to contain such dangerous activities as "poaching an egg", "creasing trousers" and (gasp) "re-potting orchids". What is the world coming to when a book with "Dangerous" in it's title doesn't even tell you how to start a camp fire? Buy your son or daughter a good knife, and a copy of FM 21-76 the US Army Survival Manual.. It's cheaper in the end and far, far more useful.. Boys (and Girls) ought to have a bit of dangerous knowledge. If you don't teach it to them. They'll just pick it up on the streets! Or worse yet from this book, which I think was based on a Noël Coward play..