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How To Build A Fire: And Other Handy Things Your Grandfather Knew (2010)

by Erin Bried(Favorite Author)

3.28 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0345525094 (ISBN13: 9780345525093)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Ballantine Books

review 1: Since I read it at the gym, I can confidently state it took less than 4 hours to read: two on a recumbent bike, less than two on a treadmill.It's cute. The task-based how-tos are quite brief, obviously, since it's possible to write an entire book about any one of them, but the more esoteric how-tos were the ones I really enjoyed: how to be a friend, apologize, be brave, etc.I'm interested in reading the other one, How to Sew a Button, and I suspect both would be suitable gifts for teens. Ha! Now that I think of it, they'd be ideal gifts for bar mitzvahs.
review 2: I was hoping that this would be a good book on learning useful skills, but turned out that I already knew how to do most of the things there, and many others would be easy to figure out.Now, if you're... more 29 like me and you don't know how to do most of these things already, then I have to be blunt here, you're pretty useless. In that case, this book should be mandatory for you.I did enjoy a lot the grandfather's life stories, it made the book shine and was very interesting to know a bit from people who lived in another world, very different from my own. That's what made the book for me and taught me a lot more than the actual instructions on tasks. less

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