Frauenfelder: “Dangerous Book for Boys” Not All That Dangerous

Good on Mark Frauenfelder for telling me something I wanted to know: that the “Dangerous Book for Boys” by Conn and Hal Iggulden is actually all that dangerous. (Not a surprise in our litigious society, but I had held out hope since the book original ran in the UK, where every boy at 13 is required to snort heroin off a copy of the Magna Carta.)

Even better, Mark has assembled a list of older project books for boys going back over 100 years that actually are sort of dangerous, or at least have projects with an element of risk involved. Trust me, boys are going to do two things when they’re at an impressionable age: not read books they don’t have to and fill up plastic lighter fluid containers with gasoline and kick them across the yard to leave an impossible-to-cover track of scorched earth in the backyard. Nobody should be afraid of a book explaining the fun of, say, explosions. Boys already know.

Dangerous Books for Boys [Boing Boing]