You Wouldn’t Want To… Series

BOOK NAME: You Wouldn’t Want To…Series
AUTHORS: Various

In the You Wouldn’t Want To… series, there are a lot of different kinds of books, like You Wouldn’t Want to Sail on the Mayflower and You Wouldn’t Want to be a Pyramid Builder. The ones I’ve read are You Wouldn’t Want to Sail with Christopher Columbus, You Wouldn’t Want to be in a Medieval Dungeon, You Wouldn’t Want to be a Civil War Soldier, You Wouldn’t Want to be a Roman Gladiator, and You Wouldn’t Want to be an Egyptian Mummy.

In You Wouldn’t Want to be an Egyptian Mummy, the mummies are treated like they’re alive. They’re buried with famous jewels. If a thief steals one, they’d be able to sell it for a lot of money. But most of the thieves are caught, and if they are, they’re killed.

In You Wouldn’t Want to be in a Medieval Dungeon, the book shows you all kinds of different prisons, and how you could even be sent to one. It even shows what it would be like in the prisons. There are lots of bugs and diseases, it’s dirty, it’s cold, there’s nowhere to sleep. If you have to go the bathroom, then just find a corner of your dungeon.

In You Wouldn’t Want to be a Roman Gladiator, there’s barely anything good to eat, and you have to fight to the death! You’d love this one. It was my favorite.

These are cool books because they’re funny and weird. I would recommend them to maybe 5-year-olds to 12-year-olds. My brother Reed (who’s also a DogEared blogger) loves them. And so does my Dad. They have really cool pictures. It’s good because it’s written from the point of view as if you were there.

Comments

sonny
October 25, 2010, 2:04 pm

wow that was actullly very nice and useful info I bet you dont get that alot.!
sonny
October 25, 2010, 2:16 pm

I honestly have to say that ive never read this book but ill look it up where can i find it!?!
Skimp27
October 25, 2010, 5:43 pm

I’ve read “you wouldn’t want to be a doctor in the middle ages.” I agree, they are pretty good books packed with cool facts.
KIPPBOY
October 25, 2010, 8:48 pm

I like your book i should read it some time .Can you find it in a libray.
KIPPBOY
October 25, 2010, 8:50 pm

I like your book so much it is so awsome to me. IS it in a libray
zoenightshade12
October 26, 2010, 7:35 am

this is a REALLY funny book! my old social studies teacher left last year:(
but she LOVED this series, and this was the 2nd book in this series that she read to us!!!!!!
I:)

~Zoe Nightshade
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Liena
October 27, 2010, 8:36 am

It looks like a cool book I will seartch 4 it!
lulurulz454
October 27, 2010, 7:24 pm

so cool
moongoddess_60
October 31, 2010, 1:30 pm

A lot of people in my class read these series. its not my fav. I have not read it. Is it good.

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pageturner
November 1, 2010, 6:02 pm

I have read these books… my little brother loves them. I recommend the one called You Wouldn’t Want to Be An Assyrian Soldier!. It is so funny! You all should read it! My mom even laughs.
Kushite
November 5, 2010, 4:07 pm

I love this series. I really like the you wouldn’t want to be an aztec sacrifice, that was so funny. I want to buy these books!!!!!!
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
November 14, 2010, 6:47 pm

fabulous!great!#1!
where did you get it?hope it’s CA!
grrrrrr8!
zoenightshade12
November 16, 2010, 4:22 pm

#1:
moongoddess60:
This is a great series, and it’s hilarious and is educational, too! Let me know if you want to know more about it; I’m open to ANY questions about books. I8^) (now the unibrow smiley has a nose!)

#2:
Just to let all of you know, The Neverending Story, by Michael Ende, is now on my top 10 list of favorite books. It would be really cool if that could be the book of the month sometime! It’s a somewhat confusing book, but once you get into it, you won’t be able to put if down. It’s almost like Inkheart, by Cornelia Funke, and I think that might be where she got the idea to write her triology, because Michael Ende wrote it in 1980-something, and he was German just like Cornelia Funke! Both of them are magnificent authors. I also heard that the movie is good, but I doubt any movie could be better than this book.

#3:
Kushite:
I saw a movie in Spanish class that talks about Aztecs. I remember a little about it. I think that there was a ball game where the winner gave up his life (it was considered an honor in that game to be sacrificed to the gods.) I also remember that the women would drill holes in their teeth and place diamonds and precious jewels in them. Well, let’s just say that isn’t…er… really my, uh, style!

Thanks for the great review, Braden!
I8^)

~Zoe Nightshade >>>—–>
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Mclainak
December 22, 2010, 5:31 pm

i read these books from time to time the’re pretty funny
sembalion
March 12, 2011, 1:38 pm

i already read the one with a roman gladiator,very good.
sembalion
March 15, 2011, 1:55 pm

P.S: zoenightshade,thanks for the info!!!
Leofrost
March 15, 2011, 2:02 pm

hey,its sembalion heer,just diffrent account.
U2 Lover
July 1, 2011, 11:03 am

I NEED to read this!!!! It looks really good. I have a book kinda like this only it’s called “Oh Yikes!”….it is a really funny book.
Nicki
June 16, 2012, 11:21 pm

I’ve read the you wouldn’t want to be a Shakespearean actor! It’s quite funny!
pancake300
July 24, 2012, 6:32 pm

i read one of these it was good
Marceline
August 7, 2012, 1:50 am

Hey, Braden!

That sounds reeeeaaaaally coool!

I’ve read the Titanic and the Mummmy books in the series!

It has wacky illustrations and awesome facts!!!

I hope I can read other books in the series!!!

-Marceline