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Guy Langman, Crime Scene Procrastinator (2012)

by Josh Berk(Favorite Author)

3.37 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0375957014 (ISBN13: 9780375957017)

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English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Knopf Books for Young Readers

review 1: Entertaining. Definitely a teen book. All sorts of jokes about private parts. Actually there's more to this than just the above. Guy's going through a hard time, having recently lost his dad, and is working through his feelings about that. He's known as a serious slacker to everyone but you never know what will happen by the end of a book. To pad his school record he enrolls in an extracurricular forensics club and that's where the fun begins. Give this to both genders who want to read humor with a dollop of humanity.
review 2: Hilarious story of a slacker guy just trying to do as little as possible, and get over the loss of his dad at the same time. Guy joins his high school's CSI/Forensics Club but only because his best friend Anoop assures him it will help ... morethem impress the hot girls in the club. Guy's like, whatever dude. But he *is* interested in a cute girl in the club, so maybe...Guy's also hurting from the recent death of his dad, a man who was older than his mom and was married before. Guy discovers some things about his dad's past that surprise him, and when a student in a rival forensics club is found dead, Guy begins to suspect that the dead kid and his own father might have something in common. So he's going to try to use his newfound forensics skills to solve an actual murder. If the murderer doesn't find him first. On the surface this book sounds like a mystery, and it is, a little, but it's primarily a very funny story of a guy coping with the loss of his father in the only way he knows how. Guy worshipped his father and he tries to write a book of wise sayings of his father's, but he also learns some unsettling things about his dad's past that change the way he views him. The humor throughout is very funny but very coarse; lots of fart jokes and "potty" humor and gags that guys will love. For a high school main character, Guy is really more of an immature middle schooler at heart, which would make this a great recommendation for middle school boys to read--IF there weren't also a lot of swear words. I kept track as I listened to this on audio, and pretty much every swear word is in it! So, fair warning, if that sort of language bothers you. But if you can overlook the very realistic guy-speak, this is a very entertaining book. less

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