Customer Reviews
Great present - By: Bookworm, 02 Jan 2009 
My in-laws bought this for my son for Christmas. He loves it & so do I!
This is a great book to encourage boys [and some girls I know] to get outin the fresh air & use their imagination & creativity.
For those days when the weather is really vile or your child worn out check out the board game of the same name. Brilliant!
Expectations - By: Georg Ulvehøj, 22 Dec 2008 
Everythingin life has to do with expectations. In this case, I bought this book & expected that it would help my 9-year old son to learn about all those "dangerous" things I did when I was young. We were both totally disappointed: Nothingin the book gave him any WOW-feelings at all. In fact, it was quite sad to see the sparklesin his eyes (when he got the book) turn overin total disappointment (when he opened it). And I agree with him: He is not interestedin reading about Shakespeare or presidents, or any other cultural events.
In my opinion, the word "dangerous"in the title is wrong, so I've sent the book back.
A boyhood bible - By: Foxylock, 24 Nov 2008 I wish I had this book when I was a boy it brings back so many memories of things I tried to do (and nearly aways failed). Catapult making,go-cart making,first aid & girls all things that I sadly lacked the necessary skills in, not for the lack of trying I hasten to add.This book would have tipped the oddsin my favour, I think.From codes to coin tricks I would have ascended to the rank of supercool with the knowledgein this book.
So parents out there I implore you to buy this book for your children & give them a fair chancein this unfair world & if not for that reason you could always read it yourselves !!!
Tasty Morsels - By: Andy, 16 Nov 2008 
Undoubtedly an unusual book, but this 40+ found it good for occasional dipping into. It goes into all kinds of stuff that might interest boys, & quite a few girls too I reckon. There's bound to be inaccuraciesin a book like this, &in that carping vein I would point out that some of the comments on how to play chess were not even wrong. But that doesn't matter at all. Its contribution will be to get its reader interestedin a topic, not as a referencein its own right.
An excellent book by Hal (with a little help from Conn!) - By: T. Patmore, 09 Oct 2008 
As the cliche goes: I sooo wish I'd had this book as a kid. Nearly everything inside could be found with 5 minutes determined google searching, but it is the lucidity & compiling that makes this book so compelling.
Somehow it makes you feel invigourated reading it - you feel that it is entirely possible to do all the things listed & be a swiss army man or stg.
The one weakness (if it has a weakness) that this book has is that it does have an ever so slightly condescending tone. However, given the tone of the many inferior versions (eg the 'How to be best at everything...' series - as if they are), this book is remarkably down to earth.
So, what are you waiting for? If you've got this far then you clearly spend too much time on t'internet rather than reading books like these (irony not intended). Get up off your arse & go read this book!
