Book review: K Is For Knifeball

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+title = "K is for Knifeball: An Alphabet of Terrible Advice -  Avery Monsen, Jory John"
+date = 2020-02-19
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+tags = ["books", "reviews", "fun", "avery monsen", "jory john"]
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+[GoodReads Summary](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14553581-k-is-for-knifeball)
+From the authors of the breakout bestseller All my friends are dead. (more
+than 175,000 copies sold) and in the humorous vein of Go the F**k to Sleep
+comes a laugh-out-loud collection of bad advice that turns the children's
+alphabet book on its head. Adorable illustrated characters lead readers down a
+path of poor decision-making, and alphabetical, rhyming couplets offer
+terrible life lessons in which O is for opening things with your teeth, F is
+for setting Daddy's wallet on fire, and R is for Raccoon (but definitely not
+for rabies). With plenty of playfully disastrous choices lurking around every
+corner, this compendium of black humor may be terrible for actual children,
+but it's perfect for the common-senseless child in all adults.
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+What would happen if you mix "Please Go To Fucking Sleep" with an ABC book? "K
+is for Knifeball".
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+It's a "for-kids-but-not-kids" kinda of book: For example, "D is for Drifter,
+which you should call to get in when your parents aren't at home" and "F is
+Food, which you should give for the drifter living under your bed" (or
+something around those lines)... Pretty much what "Go To Fucking Sleep" does.
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+Surely one wouldn't recite the book to a kid anyway, and being really short,
+I'm not sure about the re-readability of it. Still, it is somewhat amusing.