"Amazing Tales for Making Men Out of Boys" a Book Review by My Wife With a Running Commentary by Me, a Man That Used to be a Boy

I write for a lot of blogs and I get a lot of products to review.  It's all hit or miss.  Just today I reviewed the new Beatles remastered catalog.  Also, a nude Kourtney Kardashian.   At this very moment I'm reviewing my fourth Harvest Moon Pumpkin Ale.  I'll save you the suspense, it's good.

A lot of what I am asked to review are books, which is cool because I'm a writer and a reader and a lover. Yes, I'm two-fisted on the literary front.  However, I'm only one man.  One handsome, handsome man.  I can't read them all. 

Enter the wife.  Her name is Tricia.  She likes to read, too.  Sometimes she says I am an open book, but that's bullshit because everyone can see that I am mysterious. Sometimes she reads books that I am sent, which is not bullshit. Then I beg her to write something that passes for a review so that I can fulfill my commitment to the PR gods.  I ain't too proud to beg.  The book Amazing Tales for Making Men Out of Boys by one Neil Oliver is such a book.  Also, International Bestseller!  Congrats on that, Neil. 

Here are her notes with me in parenthesis (Help! Help! I'm in parenthesis!):

This book was awesome. Though I think some of the stories are a little mature or advanced for the youngin's. The stories deal with death and sometimes that's not a subject you want to broach so early on. (I like my death unbroached- see, I'm adding funny stuff like that).

There is a continuous story line all the way through about Robert Falcon Scott. He's the guy that made the successful trek to the South Pole. (Okay, that's pretty awesome. And Falcon? So much better than Sparrow.)

The book has amazing artwork. Serious old school stuff, they look like they were taken straight out of a high school history book. (White men winning wars?)

The actual stories include tales of un-winnable battles and the men that fought them. The battles were fought against man, nature and time itself (If you do a dramatic reading of that sentence it sounds like an old NFL film.). There are stories of men who wouldn't give up, not because someone was paying them, but because they needed to help, they needed to fight. It was their innate state of being. (They were born with that shit.)

They stood up for what they believed was the right thing to do. (Finchesque.)

The men in the book aren't any different from the men today. Ha! The difference between them and the men of today is the men back then stood up and did something. (Seriously? What the fuck?)

The battles and fights were for things that meant something to them. (Oil.)

Reading this book was very enjoyable, however, it did make me more aware of the lack of manly men. (Again with this shit? Uncalled for.)

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And therein is your review of a book about manly men and the apparent lack thereof.  And now a video in which they dance:

Compensation: No
Products Received: 1copy of "Amazing Tales for Making Men Out of Boys" for review