Book Count: 23
The Dangerous Book for Boys By: Hal & Conn Iggulden
Non-fiction: sports, adventure, history, science, etc. 267 pages, 4th grade reading level, 2007
This is the type of book you would get for a 9-12 year old boy who you don’t really know much about. It has a lot of information on a lot of different topics but nothing really in-depth on anything. It says it’s “dangerous” but the most dangerous thing about it is its lack of information. For example, on the first aid part its information on CPR would only be slightly useful for someone that already knows CPR, and it goes on about how the King James Version of the bible is the greatest ever because it is sooo poetic and for an example gives the wording of the Ten Commandments in it. First, that isn’t even a very poetic part of the Bible. Second, people read the Bible mostly for spiritual reasons and there forth should care about things like accuracy and understandability two things that the King James Bible scores low on. After reading this book, I don’t understand why it was such a popular book. It is unlike most books for boys that had been written for some time. But it also was billed as a book to get kids outside doing things and teaching them classical knowledge, but includes a section on why you should play Dungeons and Dragons or a similar game.
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