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4.07 AVERAGE
4.07 AVERAGE
I LOVE this thing. Not too fond of the stuff that prompts you to smear food and whatnot, since I don't want this becoming so grody and smelly... but hey, it's an adventure that you can share with everyone.
Keri Smith opened my eyes to a whole new adventure when it comes to "read" a book. Such interactions and activities made me explore multiple drawing-creativity rituals that thought I lost them for a while.
Bola som celkom prekvapená, keď som zistila, že Odviaž sa! je aj n GR, pretože to nie je tak celkom kniha. Je to zápisník plný úloh, ktoré treba splniť. Mne osobne sa veľmi páči a je to dosť dobrá vec. Hlavne v lete, keď nastanú nudné obdobia a nemám čo robiť. Úplne ho chválim a odporúčam každému, kto sa chce zabaviť.
This book is great. It's very therapeutic. There is nothing like destroying a book that was written to be destroyed.
i bought this in 2012 and finished it last year but i never put it on here for some reason?? idk all the crazy stunts i had to pull to complete some pages were completely worth it though, i'll probably get another one at some point.
Own it for 2 years I guess, and I don't think I will ever finish it, because I have so many of these kind of things haha. It's a great concept, and it's simply a very cool book to own and be creative in. The only thing I don't like, is that there are a few tasks that are just too nasty to do. Like 'make a drawing with dirty things'. I mean, I'm not gonna draw with poo or mud or food, right? That will be such a mess, and it will smell so bad that after a while you can throw your book trash. So I don't really understand what the meaning of that task is, but I can't imagine that you're supposed to do what I said before, lol.
Someone gave this to me as a birthday present a long time ago. I'm moving out, it's the biggest waste of space in my apartment.
Unfortunately, I hate this book. Yes, maybe it is appealing for bored children, but frankly, it is an obnoxious and expensive waste of paper. A tree died for this? And also, I don't think this book encourages creativity, but rather saturates boredom. To destroy 200 pages in individually different ways, you actually need a lot of motivation and time! I don't want to destroy. I want to destroy what tells me to destroy, like any punk would.
If I'm honest, had I more time, I would have pissed on it or set it on fire before I binned it, to ironically rebel against orders to destroy. To wreck the orders of the journal that orders to be destroyed in a certain way. But the joke wasn't funny enough, and I don't have THAT much time, I must pack my suitcase and it'd probably mess up my apartment somehow. Although seeing how long this review got, maybe I should have done that and been on my way.
You shouldn't need to spend £10 to be told exactly how to destroy each page, to feel good about yourself. Is it really encouraging creativity, or rather enforcing obedience to orders to destroy? I think a great scifi plot would be if something like this book was secretly totalitarian propaganda desensitizing the youth to vandalism. But to its merit, the education system never teaches us to destroy, and that from a Hegelian viewpoint may be an error that books like this provide an outlet and learning experience for.
But, I feel like if you were bored enough to thoroughly wreck the journal you should go outside and talk to people or go outside, it would be a more enriching experience. It bothers me that Penguin would endorse making and selling this over other aspiring storytellers, or printing absolutely any of their existing range of novels — which will be read or sold over and over again. This book will be binned or ruined. This book dies, it is never reread or passed down. Almost 15,000 GoodReads users have contributed to what seems to be a very singular, destructive and meaningless experience to kill time and paper. I understand making novelty gifts and catering to all, but does this book in any way encourage a respect or interest in reading? Does destroying a book by this author make me think this author can write and encourage me to purchase more?
But hey, if anyone enjoys this or gets something out of this who am I to judge? It's definitely thinking outside of the box. I can see the quirky appeal of it and I can see why it would sell well in a gift shop... whether or not it would be read. I can see why it would be fun to someone completely bored and young and free. Like when I was much younger and had to sit at a parent's friend's house, the boredom of being trapped in one space... I can see then how this book could be a day of activities that might help me forget I was trapped. But even still, does it lead anywhere in improving 'creativity'? Doesn't it fail in being unable like any other book might, in leaving some lasting reflection and change us as individuals?
My concern is that we live in a world where this book could not only sell, but sell well.
I'm probably being too serious, and trying to give this 'novelty book' more thought than it deserves or requests, but consider my position. It's just sad that in receiving this as a gift, I have been put in a position where I either directly recycle it without using it, or trash it in a time-consuming and repetitive way that vies against my ecological views and personality. This book should only be those who buy it for themselves. And should those people, not instead, turn their £10 tender into pennies, and find fun things to do with pennies instead? Ideologically, this book bothers me not because of what it is, but what it represents. But if only I was given this when I was preconscious, seven years old again, this would've been on my read shelf, and might've made a weekend afternoon more memorable. Though in honesty, given the choice, I probably would've played video games instead.
Unfortunately, I hate this book. Yes, maybe it is appealing for bored children, but frankly, it is an obnoxious and expensive waste of paper. A tree died for this? And also, I don't think this book encourages creativity, but rather saturates boredom. To destroy 200 pages in individually different ways, you actually need a lot of motivation and time! I don't want to destroy. I want to destroy what tells me to destroy, like any punk would.
If I'm honest, had I more time, I would have pissed on it or set it on fire before I binned it, to ironically rebel against orders to destroy. To wreck the orders of the journal that orders to be destroyed in a certain way. But the joke wasn't funny enough, and I don't have THAT much time, I must pack my suitcase and it'd probably mess up my apartment somehow. Although seeing how long this review got, maybe I should have done that and been on my way.
You shouldn't need to spend £10 to be told exactly how to destroy each page, to feel good about yourself. Is it really encouraging creativity, or rather enforcing obedience to orders to destroy? I think a great scifi plot would be if something like this book was secretly totalitarian propaganda desensitizing the youth to vandalism. But to its merit, the education system never teaches us to destroy, and that from a Hegelian viewpoint may be an error that books like this provide an outlet and learning experience for.
But, I feel like if you were bored enough to thoroughly wreck the journal you should go outside and talk to people or go outside, it would be a more enriching experience. It bothers me that Penguin would endorse making and selling this over other aspiring storytellers, or printing absolutely any of their existing range of novels — which will be read or sold over and over again. This book will be binned or ruined. This book dies, it is never reread or passed down. Almost 15,000 GoodReads users have contributed to what seems to be a very singular, destructive and meaningless experience to kill time and paper. I understand making novelty gifts and catering to all, but does this book in any way encourage a respect or interest in reading? Does destroying a book by this author make me think this author can write and encourage me to purchase more?
But hey, if anyone enjoys this or gets something out of this who am I to judge? It's definitely thinking outside of the box. I can see the quirky appeal of it and I can see why it would sell well in a gift shop... whether or not it would be read. I can see why it would be fun to someone completely bored and young and free. Like when I was much younger and had to sit at a parent's friend's house, the boredom of being trapped in one space... I can see then how this book could be a day of activities that might help me forget I was trapped. But even still, does it lead anywhere in improving 'creativity'? Doesn't it fail in being unable like any other book might, in leaving some lasting reflection and change us as individuals?
My concern is that we live in a world where this book could not only sell, but sell well.
I'm probably being too serious, and trying to give this 'novelty book' more thought than it deserves or requests, but consider my position. It's just sad that in receiving this as a gift, I have been put in a position where I either directly recycle it without using it, or trash it in a time-consuming and repetitive way that vies against my ecological views and personality. This book should only be those who buy it for themselves. And should those people, not instead, turn their £10 tender into pennies, and find fun things to do with pennies instead? Ideologically, this book bothers me not because of what it is, but what it represents. But if only I was given this when I was preconscious, seven years old again, this would've been on my read shelf, and might've made a weekend afternoon more memorable. Though in honesty, given the choice, I probably would've played video games instead.