Product Description

In the spirit of the national bestseller The Dangerous Book for Boys, an essential life-skills handbook for the childish adult in all of us, featuring party tricks, parlor games, and sight gags guaranteed to impress your friends and while away the hours.

If you've reached adulthood without knowing how to spin a rope like a cowboy, cure a hangover, or make a citizen's arrest, this is the book you've been waiting for. Divided into handy sections, this fascinating and oddly useful volume presents lively and enlightening tutorials including:

* How to Be a Real Man: how to mow the perfect lawn and defend yourself with nothing but an umbrella * Bracing Outdoor Activities: how to skate backwards, make a boomerang come back, and snare wild game * Amusing Parlor Diversions: how to float an egg, eat a goldfish, master fiendish tongue-twisters, and fold a paper hat in seconds

Also includes: Classic practical jokes * Sumo wrestling for beginners * Four diversions with a banana * and much more.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #124856 in Books
• Published on: 2007-10-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 336 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780399534157
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Review
'Silly -- but very funny.' The Sunday Times 'A witty, tongue-in-cheek manual.' Mail on Sunday 'Those who enjoyed Conn and Hal Iggulden's hugely successful Dangerous Books For Boys would be well advised to invest in this beauty too because it's every bit as delightful.' Hampstead & Highgate Express '!quirky and humorous!' Cork Evening Echo

About the Author
The son of a sex therapist and a sometime Dominican friar, Tom Cutler has worked as a teacher, set designer, doublebass player, speechwriter, printer, toyshop manager, lyricist, wine waiter, puppet maker, typographer, magazine editor, bandleader, portrait painter, radio reporter, cartoonist, and ghost writer. He is a practicing magician and in his spare time enjoys murdering Bach on the guitar.

Customer Reviews

A must have for any guy.
I have to say that I never take the time to write reviews but I feel compelled to write one about this. I bought this book just because the cover looked kind of cool and planned to read it in my spare time. It just so happened that 2 hours after I bought the book, I ended up in the emergency room and then a 2 day hospital stay. I had T.V., my Mac, my cellphone and this book. You guessed it! I kept putting down all of my high priced gadgets and this book was very hard to put down. I can't wait to get home and try all of the neat tricks in this book. Again.... FANTASTIC!!!!

Excellent REad
For all those who have issues with the book, learn to use the search inside feature that amazon has. Or just open the book up before giving it to someone. Personally, I found it to be a good read, and rather informative for the next time I need to make a citizens arrest, judge time of death by body temperature, or I need an interesting way to entertain in a dull situation. Once I started to read through the book, I found it rather difficult to put it down. A must have book for any man.

Very funny and useful
This book is very funny and it looks so cool, it seems like a book from the 1950's. I bought it for my brother and it is so funny that I was laughing all the time. I think the person who said it's racist read another book! My brother thinks it is cool, so it was a neat gift.