- Hardcover: 288 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins Entertainment; illustrated edition edition (1 Oct 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0007259247
- ISBN-13: 978-0007259243
- Product Dimensions: 20 x 13.4 x 2.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
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- #44 in Books > Humour > Doctors & Medicine
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Praise for 211 Things a Bright Boy Can Do
‘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
“A witty guide to glamorous living…”
The Daily Mail
'…quirky and humorous…' Cork Evening Echo
Product Description
211 Things a Bright Girl Can Do is the essential life-skills handbook for bright girls of every age, featuring all the subjects they don’t teach you at school or Guides.
Girls, if you reached adulthood without learning how to do a handbrake turn, estimating the size of a gentleman’s tackle, or how to do your own Brazilian, this is the book for you. Divided into handy sections, this fascinating volume contains easy-to-follow tutorials and priceless tips, including:
• How to Be Completely Gorgeous – big knickers or small?, how to pluck your eyebrows, choosing the right size bra, and the Imelda Marcos guide to shoes;
• The Compleat Homemaker – how to make Turkish delight, how to get a man to do the housework, and how to make tea for a builder;
• Jolly Hockeysticks! – how to groom a horse, decorating a Christmas tree, how to read the tealeaves, and how to force a cucumber;
• How to be Bad – complete whipcraft, how to do a striptease and everything else your mistresses didn't teach you at school, but you wished they had.
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 lose six pounds in six hours, how to travel in a sidecar and how to turn down a rotten marriage proposal, this is the book you’ve been waiting for.
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56 of 59 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
My brother bought me this because he enjoyed "211 Things A Bright Boy Can Do". I thought the cover was intriguing but I had no idea how funny it was inside. How to strangle a man with your bare thighs, parallel parking for girls, how to make turkish delight. There's everything in this book!! But it's written so amusingly that you just burst out laughing when you least expect it. Even my dad laughed. Just adore it and I'm still dipping in! All the girls in my family are getting this for Christmas and so is my mum. I love it!!!
43 of 46 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This book is not only the funniest thing I've read for ages, it is absolutely beautiful. It is done to look like one of those old books you stumble on in second hand bookshops, with a knocked-about look to the covers and bumped corners. The end papers are done in a very evocative pink gingham check and the illustrations inside are an absolute treat. They look like something out of a Miss Marple mystery except they are illustrating subjects such as how to re-point a wall and how to strangle a man with your bare thighs. The writing is extremely funny (deadpan and extremely witty) but with pearls of wisdom scattered about. I cannot speak highly enough of this book, I love it. Utterly original and hilarious.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is a great stocking filler, had us all laughing even the men. Fab book
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My daughter got this book from Amazon, she's ten years old. She says it it absolutely fantastic, extremely funny, and, in some places relatively practical. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Optimist
the 212 thing a bright girl should do...
is buy this book! The many ideas presented in the book range from practical to absurd, but are nonetheless entertaining. I have learnt many practical things from it!
Published 14 months ago by RuthEmily
Best Christmas
I have made the Chocolate Bread and hedgehog rolls. They were as hilarious as the text itself. While not always as practical as the boys edition (e.g. Read more
Published 16 months ago by Maureen Wang
Brilliant present!
I have now bought this as a present for two of my friends. Perfect for the lady that has everything!
Published on 12 Jun 2009 by Ms. J. Sugrue
You don't have to Bright or a girl to read this, but it helps
Ahh, Bunty Cutler, a name that evokes an almost uncontainable yearning to be spoonerised. Even a slip of the tongue in Waterstones would, you feel, make someone's day, whether... Read more
Published on 19 Dec 2008 by A. B. Foster
i love it
this book is really quite useful how to boil the perfect egg being the one of the best it also has some really intresting things in it like how to do a strip tease :P . Read more
Published on 19 July 2008 by jennifer aston
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