What Would Macgyver Do?: True Stories of Improvised Genius in Everyday Life Review
MACGYVER IS ONLY AN NON FICTION STORY. DO YOU BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU READ?? ARE YOU FROM ANOTHER PLANET?? COME ON GIVE RICHARD DEAN ANDERSON A CHANCE. HE'S A GREAT ACTOR. HE PLAYED HIS PART WELL. ARE YOU GOING TO PUT STARGATE SG-1 DOWN TOO...NOT.. NOT IN MY LIFETIME!!! ALL THE WAY R.D.A... LOVE YA MACGYVER AND O'NEILL..FOREVER..CAROL D.
What Would Macgyver Do?: True Stories of Improvised Genius in Everyday Life Overview
For anyone who's ever wished they could channel the 1980s action-adventure icon comes this clever collection of forty-five true stories, commemorating the use of improvised genius to solve everyday problems. Inspired by television's Angus MacGyver (played by Richard Dean Anderson), a secret agent who relied on his brains and scientific prowness-not to mention duct tape and a Swiss Army knife-to save the day, the "MacGyverisms" recounted range from the concrete (using Chex Mix to provide taction in an icy parking lot) to the intangible (saving a relationship with the perfect turn of phrase). Edgy, entertaining, and smirk-to-yourself funny, these masterfully told stories reveal that, with a little luck and a lot of ingenuity, you can "MacGyver" yourself out of virtually any predicament..
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Customer Reviews
No MacGuyverisms to be found here! - Adam C Duclos -
I was extremely disappointed in this book. For an author who purports to be a MacGuyver fan of the highest caliber, I find he misses the point in just about every story. Judging from the books taglines, I might expect nifty stories about how people had to fix things in interesting ways. By and large, that was not the case. Also, he had a really annoying writing style, where he would introduce all of the upcoming stories by giving away the plot and ending of each one. Way to ruin the only thing your book had going for it, moron! I get that if you didn't do that, none of the book would actually be written by you, but then I guess you shouldn't have gleaned a bunch of stupid stories from wannabe writers instead of actual MacGuyverism's, then asked them to write them themselves
Spoilers.
There were two stories that I liked. A dude fixed his car in the middle of nowhere using a knitting needle. As I said earlier, I'm not really giving anything away here, since the author spells this out for you before you hear the story. Another guy fixes a dudes tire in a novel way. Okay then!
The rest were awful. A guy's family needs to lift a deck up a few feet so they can reattach it to the house. So they use four car jacks. Imagine that, what genious to use jacks to lift something heavy. Damn it all, they even had one for each corner! How is that a MacGuyverism? That was the exact thing thing they needed, in the exact number they needed!
A guy's apartment is hot, so he tries to make an air conditioner from scratch. All he has is a fan and a bucket. How does he MacGuyver this? He goes to Home Depot and buys all the rest of the stuff he needs. Fail!
Some girl is friends with another girl who is severely asthmatic. She witnesses a severe asthma attack, and takes the girl to to the hospital. Good so far, I guess. Then they go on vacation and the girl has a lesser but still quite bad attack. For some stupid reason she brought her inhaler, but forgot some kind of spacer for it, rendering it useless. (As an aside, why the hell would this thing be in two pieces!) So what do they do? They go out and try to buy the spacer from three different places and fail, and all the while the girl refuses to go to the hospital. They go back to the vacation house, cut the end off of a water bottle and make their own spacer, which works. Here's the thing... They spent hours driving around fruitlessly looking for this damned spacer... Idiot, you are in a car, driving your ailing friend around! Just go to the hospital anyway! Its better than dying, and they probably have a spacer for you! MacGuyver would totally just go to the hospital if he needed to, was near one, and had a car. Ha!
Then the author runs out of stories in any way relating to fixing things, then goes into his 'alcohol' section, his 'love' section, etcetera.
A guy has a band, and they run out of stuff to make martinis. They really need their martinis man! So they steal a bunch of stuff out of a hotel and make some. Stealing?! The story actually has two more parts, each lamer than the last, and it didn't remind me of MacGuyver at all... just the 'Girl Drink Drunk' segment from 'Kids in the Hall'. That was really a good show!
A loose 16 year old girl has sex in a closet with some guy she just met. He rips off her thong, tearing it. So she ties it together agaiin. Really? (Oh, and by way, she couldn't figure that out on the first try... the first time she tried to use a binder clip!)
Another girl dates some guy, then stops dating him. Later, he gets married, so she decides she loves him. She then decides she needs to get over him, so she solicits help from her creative writing group. They fail to help her, and she pines after the guy for five years, when she snapped out of it. Except she didn't even then, because she wrote this story and submitted it to this lame book.
There was a lot more, but I'm tired of writing about this abysmal book. Don't be fooled! If you must read this, I advise you not to encourage this kind of book in a monetary way! Borrow it from your local library...
PS: I just remembered the one about the guy who drank his own pee for no good reason. The way the guy wrote the story, it sounded like he was just looking for an excuse to do so. He knew it wouldn't help his thirst, he wasn't that far from water and he did it anyway. Whatever! This book is terrible.
Beyond Disappointing - M. Wu - New York
This book is plain awful! Near all of the solutions in the book are far from true MacGyverism. The author claims he's unskilled with improvisation, he isn't lying, if he's impressed with the stories people submitted, he can't be a handy guy with quick wits. The only thing good with the book is the title, I was mislead by it and purchased the book.
unique book - Patricia Verdon - pa
This is a very unique book, book was shipped one day after order - amazing. Highly recommend vendor
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