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A review by smart_as_paint
Spanking Shakespeare by Jake Wizner
4.0
Too Long; Didn't Read (TL; DR): Give this book as a Christmass gift to your teenage nephew. Read the first chapter before you wrap it. You might have to buy another copy. Then again, you might not.
Do you know what it's like to be a socially outcast teenage boy? Jake Wizner sure does. Spanking Shakespeare is filled to the brim with musings and conversations that feel plagiarized from my own awkward High School experience. Wizner brilliantly crafts a high School life so chalk full of awkwardness and flawed logic; it's painful. The pain makes me smile
"I remember what it was like to feel like that"
Another painful aspect of the book is the humor. I say painful because It permeates every section and is basically inescapable. Most of the jokes fall into the stereotypical male, age 13-26 category of humor. Often dark and self-deprecating, if you laugh at Your Mother jokes or when someone says the word 'Scrotum' out loud, you'll probably like this book.
If you find that type of humor, juvenile, gross, and/or misogynistic, you'll probably NOT like this book.
Spanking Shakespeare is a very divisive text. I'm not surprised some people don't like it. But if you're looking for a book to recommend to a high school boy who claims
"I just don't like reading"
I cannot recommend it highly enough.
Do you know what it's like to be a socially outcast teenage boy? Jake Wizner sure does. Spanking Shakespeare is filled to the brim with musings and conversations that feel plagiarized from my own awkward High School experience. Wizner brilliantly crafts a high School life so chalk full of awkwardness and flawed logic; it's painful. The pain makes me smile
"I remember what it was like to feel like that"
Another painful aspect of the book is the humor. I say painful because It permeates every section and is basically inescapable. Most of the jokes fall into the stereotypical male, age 13-26 category of humor. Often dark and self-deprecating, if you laugh at Your Mother jokes or when someone says the word 'Scrotum' out loud, you'll probably like this book.
If you find that type of humor, juvenile, gross, and/or misogynistic, you'll probably NOT like this book.
Spanking Shakespeare is a very divisive text. I'm not surprised some people don't like it. But if you're looking for a book to recommend to a high school boy who claims
"I just don't like reading"
I cannot recommend it highly enough.