John Long's Campfire Howlers: Stories to Amuse and Entertain [Paperback]

John Long (Editor)

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Ics Books (October 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1570340005
• ISBN-13: 978-1570340000
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,464,936 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars John Long's Campfire Howlers is not for the young, September 4, 1998

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Ed Henderson - See all my reviews

This review is from: John Long's Campfire Howlers: Stories to Amuse and Entertain (Paperback)

Never judge a book by its cover! On first glance this is a delightful book. The cover shows a cartoon of a young person totally engrossed in a book with a kind of shocked & somewhat frightened look while colerful animals creep up around him in order to see what he is reading. By all apperances, a great book for Scouts and Summer Camps.

Most of the stories, nearly all of them, are great too (there is one near the end of the about a traveler at the turn of the Century and his bizarre coorespondences with a hotel front desk over the matter of those complimentary bars of soap that is a riot. Really funny.

UNFORTUNATELY, for whatever reason John Long decided to toss in a "deer camp" story that would be more appropriate in the pages of an X rated magazine. No doubt there are some scouts who might really get into this kind of campfire story but I doubt their parents & Scoutleaders would find the story very amusing.

ICS / Globe Peaquot, the Press that offers this book has several other great titles (all available from Amazon) including another by John Long called Campfire Tales that are far better for leaders looking for a new book of tales for the next campout.

I really hope that future editions of this book might consider the potential market and audience that this book is likely to attract by its cover and insure that the content is appropriate.

JOHN LONG...What were you thinking when you added that one story? Without the porn story, this book would get 4 1/2 out of five stars on the Amazon scale from me. Youth group leaders might still want to get it, but they need to know the contents and Be Prepared to deal with that one story.