Spanking Shakespeare

TOP TEN REASONS TO READ SPANKING SHAKESPEARE10. Your spouse will look at you like your crazy when he/she walks into the room and you are laughing hysterically by yourself with only a book.9. You will secretly know you are not crazy, just reading something refreshing and side-splitting funny at times. You may even find yourself crying; you are laughing so hard.8. It is well written and witty.7. Anything with the title including Spanking should be mandatory reading.6. You want to get inside a teenage boys head and be appalled at the frequency they think about sex and masturbation.5. This is not your usual type of story you read and you want to revamp your love for reading by going on a very different adventure.4. If you are female: You want to see what high school was like for a boy. If you are male: You want to relive your high school years.3. You want to laugh at someone else's pain.2. You think bowel movements are amusing, even if you don't want to admit it.1. It's a freaking good book.Well done, Jake Wizner.Reviewer's note: Those who know me know that I'm not a fan of the lewd and sometimes I can be downright conservative, so it makes no sense whatsoever that I liked this book so much. Seriously, I had a great time reading it. I felt like I had front row tickets to a comedy show.

this is an extremely creative and fun young adult book about a 17 year-old guy who is very gifted at writing, but not much else. he's struggling through his senior year in a creative writing program where he has to write a memoir about his life. so the chapters in the book jump back and forth between his actual memoir chapters and his reflections about them and life.that said, it's another one of the YA (young adult) books that are a good read, but would be difficult for me to recommend to actual teenagers, due to its obsession with masturbation, sex, drug-use and alcohol, and other (very real) stuff. not that i'm a prude who thinks kids should only read christianized (read: sanitized) fiction with falsely scrubbed kids having bible studies.seeing the author's bio, and that he teaches 8th grade english as his day job, i was instantly a fan. but i kept thinking, as i read, that his book would be somewhat over-the-line for the kids he teaches (let alone the parents of those kids!).

Spanking Shakespeare has the perfect 1st person narrator in the form of Shakespeare Shapiro. S. Shapiro's voice fits perfectly for a teenage boy. Shakespeare, much like the real Bard says what might be embarrassing to some, but says what it is raw, true and real.There are very few protagonists that capture the essence of being a teenage boy in the way that Spanking Shakespeare does. I have never laughed out loud so much in my life.If you are looking for a book for a reluctant teenage reader, then this is the book to suggest. Reading this on the Kindle, I got to the end so fast, I didn't even realize I had read the whole book.Awesome read, unique voice, great YA novel!

Spanking Shakespeare was an exceptionally fun read that I breezed through in just a few hours. 1st person narrator, Shakespeare Shapiro is hysterically funny, while at times lewd and raw; he is extremely creative and perpetually self-deprecating.. as so, he is very believable as an awkward 17 year old boy and highly entertaining.Jake Wizner did a brilliant job capturing the true voice and feelings of adolescents that many will relate to.. and even if you cant relate to anything in this book, you will still laugh wildly through it.

Fast delivery. I got this book to get my preteen back into a longer book for school. Most of the subject matter was advanced for his age (11) but it definitely held his interest. If you are willing to discuss teen sexual terminology and some drug references then it's a gripping book.

The book looked like it was just hand typed on printer paper...all the words are there it's just not a very a nice book

This is without question one of the funniest YA stories I've ever read. I was laughing-out-loud while reading this hilarious romp through the daily activities, teen angst, and many sexual situations and behaviour of teenage boys. The unusual title of this book is just the beginning of the fun. The authors ability to use current teen vernacular and his realistic portrayal of YA boys thought processes will have you rolling in the aisles. A wonderful story...

Shakespeare Shapiro is a witty senior in high school who has a lot to say about himself, his family, and his friends. I laughed out loud while I was reading. There are touching moments too, which round out the book nicely.Shakespeare is writing a memoir, in which he muses about his (unfortunate?) name, his crazy family, and his social ineptitude.As a former teacher, I can say that this book will appeal to teen girls and boys, and (open minded) parents.