- Hardcover: 288 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins Entertainment (18 Sep 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0007228511
- ISBN-13: 978-0007778430
- Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 13.6 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 126,897 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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‘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
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211 Things a Bright Boy Can Do is the essential life-skills handbook for bright boys of every age, featuring all the subjects they don’t teach you at school or Scouts.
If you reached adulthood without learning the exact rules of conkers, or how to take off your pants without removing your trousers, or how to put a ship into a bottle, this is the book for you. Divided into handy sections, this fascinating volume contains easy-to-follow tutorials and priceless tips on:
• How to Be A Real Man – including how to mow the perfect lawn and how to fight a bull – with elegance;
• Weird Science and Sideshow Physics – spoon-bending, teach yourself mindreading, and how to lie on a bed of nails;
• Bracing Outdoor Activities – cowboy ropecraft, how to punt without looking a fool, how to head a ball, and how to make a boomerang come back;
• Militant Cookery – how to make your own pickled eggs, how to spit-roast and dress a suckling pig, how to make a proper pork pie;
• Parlour diversions – shadow puppets, easy tunes for the glass harmonica, and how to make a pinhole camera;
• The Human Body – how to make your hair stand on end, how to dissect a man, sumo wrestling for the beginner;
• Those Useful Subjects Not Taught at School – how to interrogate an uncooperative suspect, how to win money in a casino, and how to blag your way in philosophy, science, art, and psychology;
• Gags, cons and practical jokes – classic old and boggling new tricks, juggling, and unusual party pieces for the classroom, pub and restaurant table.
Plus much, much more.
This volume won’t improve your morals or make you smell nice, but it will entertain and inform. So if you’ve always wanted to know how to tear a phone book in half, how to identify airline insignia, or the essential moves of Morris Dancing, this is the book you’ve been waiting for.
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75 of 75 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I got this for my boyfriend for Christmas but I dipped in and couldn't put it down. It's a lovely fruitcake of a book. You never know what you will find next. "How to tell when a girl fancies you" next to "How to analyse a handshake" and "How to take snuff". The best thing is it's really hilarious in a sort of cheerfully self-deprecating way. I keep bursting out laughing. A lovely, witty, good-humoured read. Wonderful!
76 of 77 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Originally purchased because I had enjoyed the Dangerous Book for Boys and I thought this would be a good follow up. I wanted to get some knowledge and activities, along the lines of the things my father passed on to me when I was a (usually) bored child, to do with my kids.
Unless an activity involves electricity and an enormous initial outlay it seems children don't get exposed to it any more so some simpler things were required.
This book contains educational stuff, how to build a good campfire, adult stuff, lift a man above your head with one arm and kids stuff like conker rules. Better than the Dangerous Book for Boys (I might need grammatical tuition, but I don't want it) and sneaks up on you with things that make you laugh out loud.
Unless an activity involves electricity and an enormous initial outlay it seems children don't get exposed to it any more so some simpler things were required.
This book contains educational stuff, how to build a good campfire, adult stuff, lift a man above your head with one arm and kids stuff like conker rules. Better than the Dangerous Book for Boys (I might need grammatical tuition, but I don't want it) and sneaks up on you with things that make you laugh out loud.
37 of 39 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I bought this for my son for Christmas and wondered how many grandparents purchased it for a younger child - the cover would indicate a likely age range from around 10ish? The content however is more 15+! My son was delighted - how to estimate a bra size and make a balloon model of a scrotum were his immediate delights! A great book and one of his favourite presents but if you are buying this, be aware of the adult content and don't give to anyone likely to be offended!
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Gently Witty
This is a perfect book for Christmas. You can dip in between opening presents and eating mince pies and learn something useful, like how to mow the lawn or how to appreciate wine. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Simon B
Utterly unfunny
At the age when any of this stood a miniscule chance of being remotely amusing I couldn't read sufficiently for it. Read more
Published on 21 Jan 2010 by MG
A treasure trove of tricks, tips and tutorials.
In some ways a book is one of the worst Christmas gifts. Unless it is something you specifically ask for, the likelihood is that it will be put on a shelf and forgotten about. Read more
Published on 29 Dec 2009 by Chris Battye
211 things for bright boys OVER 16
The title of this book is misleading as is the cover. It is not a reprint of an old book but a new one. Read more
Published on 27 Jan 2009 by Mr. T. C. Hodgman
Good little tricks
This book is a good read for all us men still young at heart. It will give you some good information on many things such as easy tricks to impress the other half and the younger... Read more
Published on 26 May 2007 by K. A. Jessen
Be a Man Again!
This book is awesome!
It has 160 chapters with more than 200 tricks that can be done with anything available at your disposal. Read more
It has 160 chapters with more than 200 tricks that can be done with anything available at your disposal. Read more
Published on 23 May 2007 by Vinod Kumar
My new favourite book
I just received this book for Christmas and I have been unable to put it down for several hours. It reminds me in parts of the "Worst Case Scenario" books but it's so much more... Read more
Published on 26 Dec 2006 by E. G. Jones
Spiffing Fun for Boys and Girls of All Ages!
What, I wonder, was the original motivation for all those boys' self help books of yore? To inculcate skills useful to King and Empire whilst providing a wholesome diversions from... Read more
Published on 10 Oct 2006 by D. Stewart
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