Laugh out loud funny tales of the idiotic stunts Gary Paulsen and his buddies tried to pull off as 12 and 13 year old boys. Read it in a day!

This is a great book about how Gary Pauslsen and his friends did crazy and extreme stunts in their teenage years. If you like funny books, I would highly recommend reading this book. Some of the things the boys in this book are very daring. They almost all wind-up killing themselves at least once or twice in the book. This Quote from the book sums up the main point of what the boys were thinking when they try all these daredevil stunts. "We were dumber then, and there was no safety gear." All in all, one of the best and most hilarious books that I have ever read.

This was ok. The humor was ehh. The whole sports theme is definitely not for me so I have to give this 2.5 stars.

HILARIOUS!! This book was pure entertainment the made me laugh out loud. The author has an amazing way of weaving a story so you feel like you could have been there. I had tears roll down my cheeks more than once and my daughter loved it just as much.

This book was a very funny and good read. It's a nonfiction account on the stunts that Paulsen and his friends did while they were teenagers. The stunts range from latching onto car bumpers and riding homemade skateboards, to wrestling a bear to impress girls. It was a really good book and I would recommend it as a goofy read to guys. I thought it was just hilarious at all the stunts that a successful author would do as a boy. It made me wish that I had done some of the stunts, and it also got me to think before I would try any of the stunts Paulsen and his crew did.

Laugh out loud funny! I read this out loud to my husband while we were traveling over the weekend. We both split a gut. There were times I was laughing so hard I couldn't keep reading for the tears. It reminds me of sitting around listening to my dad and uncles swapping stories about when they were young and stupid and relating some of the crazy things they did to keep entertained. My husband could also relate, and I'm sure my son could too.

I recently read an article where the author talked of the best biographies and autobiographies of all time. Number one on his list was "How Angel Peterson Got His Name" by Gary Paulsen. I had seen this book on the shelf in our library many times but had never picked it up. I am so glad that I did! This short masterpiece has been one of my favorite reads of the summer! It is a treasure to be sure.

I read it in one sitting (actually one standing on the treadmill at the gym) and immediately ordered a copy for all of the men on my Christmas list! I pictured my brothers over and over again as I read Paulsen's recollections about being thirteen and all of the crazy things he and his friends did in the name of "science." He tells of boys peeing on electric fences, pulling a friend on skis behind a car going over eighty miles an hour, going over a waterfall in a barrel, and on and on. This is uproariously funny and poignant! I remember my own brothers getting in a big refrigerator box with the two neighbor boys and rolling around in the hay loft, only to roll right over the edge and on to the cement floor far below - resulting in a couple of serious concussions. The remarkable thing is that Paulsen and his friends all survive, and my brothers and their friends survived as well. Testing their own limits, the limits of nature, and the limits of their relationships was part of growing up and makes for great storytelling. And who better than a master storyteller like Paulsen to tell those tales! I can't wait for the stories that will come out when I give the men I know this book! Highly recommended for all!

Crazy, true adventures of author Gary Paulsen when he was 13-year-old. Makes me a bit grateful my own 12-year-olds aren't nearly as adventurous as the kids in this book.

Frankly one of the best knee-slappers I've read with an adult's perspective on what it is to remember being a kid who's had to say, "It seemed like a good idea at the time." I gave it to my 85 year old dad to read, and he got as big a kick out of it (and a trek down memory lane) as I did.

This is a more obscure Paulsen book, but it was recommended by another ELA teacher. Charming and cute, this will be right up many middle school boys' alley. Ben loved it!

this book was easy. so easy that it took me 2 hours. i Thought that this book was hilarious. I recommend it for people who want a very easy read or to laugh.

The book How Angel Peterson Got His Name by Gary Paulsen is about how the main character Carl Peterson got his nickname Angel Peterson. The book is intended for teens and preteens.

Carl and his friends got to the theater to watch a movie about giant ants. After the movie the group are all talking about how they would handle the ants. In the middle of all this Carl brings up that he could break the world record for the fastest speed on a pair of skis. At first his friends are questioning his statement because they live in Minnesota where all around the landscape is flat. But then Carl says that they can use there friend Archie's car and tie himself to the bumper and he could pull him until he beat the record.

I think this is a good book and I would recommend this book to anyone. I liked this book overall and I liked the highlighted points. I also liked that it was easy to read. But I think it was supposed to be funny and it wasn't.