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| Authors: Conn Iggulden, Hal Iggulden
Publisher: Collins
List Price: $26.95
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Rating:  634 reviews
Sales Rank: 116
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 270
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.3
Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 7.6 x 1.2
ISBN: 0061243582
Dewey Decimal Number: 031.02
EAN: 9780061243585
ASIN: 0061243582
Publication Date: May 1, 2007
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Showing reviews 6-10 of 634
 I detect an agenda here.... June 16, 2007
iconoclast535
64 out of 308 found this review helpful
Seems like a great book with all the attention to non-TV activities, battles, knots, and construction, but it really is "dangerous" in the sense that it contains material about Christianity. What is this, an attempt to slip in a little dogma and indoctrination, among the "manly" activities? Seems like a preface to right-wing theocracy to me....
 The Dangerous Book for Boys June 16, 2006
Linda Degler (London, England)
47 out of 51 found this review helpful
I just bought this book for my son, who is 8, after reading a review in the London Times. It is a great book! It covers all the fun things like how to make a paper airplane, build a tree house, and tie knots, as well as things like grammar and history. I read through the book last night; the section on 'Girls' cracked me up! We have the UK edition, so the history bits are British centric, but this may be different in a US edition. Either way, I'd still recommend it. Buy it for your boys, but read it yourself. Those knots may come in useful some day!
If only... May 2, 2007
Noble M. Smith (WA, USA)
44 out of 48 found this review helpful
My mom wouldn't let me go to summer camp because she thought I would drown in a lake. Consequently, I couldn't use a power tool until I was twenty-five years old. And I still can't tie a decent knot. If only I'd had this book! Especially the chapter about girls. Absolutely crucial information for any boy and it's written by witty and learned authors. I've already bought a copy for my three-year-old son. N. Smith author of Stolen from Gypsies.
Kill the wabbit, kill the wabbit November 19, 2007
Nikki D. (Ocala, FL, USA)
38 out of 235 found this review helpful
I read the entire book. It was very Republican. It was very British. It was kind of quaint. Until the KILLING chapter. The book advises boys to get a GUN and then go out and shoot and kill a rabbit, then skin it, gut it and cook it. So um...they can learn where food comes from.
If there is something I love to see it is encouraging children to use guns and kill small defenseless animals. Nothing says - good old fashioned fun like skinning an animal and ripping its internal organs from the cracked cavity of its ribcage. I mean what else could be more wholesome?
Come on Billy (or Neville if you are in the UK) come out with Dad and lets kill a bunny! Then you can skin it, decapitate it, gut it and cook it - YUM!
If you want to show Billy where food comes from - there are plenty of upsetting videos available from PETA that will turn him into a Vegan faster than you can say Soy Burger. He doesn't need to actually kill anything. Or use a gun.
Think about what a better place the world would be if little boys didn't grow up using guns and playing guns and playing let's kill EVERYTHING ON THE PLANET!
Why not try to teach Billy RESPECT FOR ALL SENTIENT BEINGS?
We might find ourselves down a war or two in the future.
Update: I was stunned by the comments on this review. There are quite a few people (mostly men) who felt it was very important to make fun of me, belittle me and suggest that I need to be a killer with a gun and a meat eater in order to have an opinion. I do not eat animals. I do not use animal based products as much as I can possibly know what is in everything that I purchase. I am careful about this and stick to mostly whole foods and unprocessed items. I am Buddhist and therefore have respect for all sentient beings. An Ant. A Cockroach. And even the people who posted such nasty comments aimed at me. On the upside, it's nice to know that with the exception of a few vegetarians who made comments supporting my review that the other commenter's proved my point exactly as they showed themselves to be mindless, small defenseless animal murdering, gun-toting thugs.
Boys and Girls May 20, 2007
Erica Anderson
37 out of 297 found this review helpful
Where is the Dangerous Book for Girls? Are paper airplanes a boys-only territory? A great book for boys, but I fear that the things outlined in the book will be taken as boy-ish things; girls should be encouraged to be adventurous too.
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