Abbie Hoffman - Steal This Book: Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Facsimile Edition

Pros: Some good advice
Cons: Bombmaking information might be dangerous if the wrong people read it

Abbie Hoffman's "Steal This Book" used to be a useful counterculture handbook. But it's changed over the years; now, it's easy to look back and laugh while reading this book.

"Steal This Book" is great because it's so...

Pros: Well written, funny and interesting.
Cons: Teaches you how to break the law and hurt people.

The first thing that came to my mind when I read the title was: don't mind if I do! Actually, I didn't steal this book (haha), but I followed the law and bought it. Once I was in a safe environment, I opened it and immediately wished I lived during ...

Pros: It has some fun things in it to do when you're bored.
Cons: It is mostly outdated.

Steal This Book, by Abbie Hoffman, in a nut shell, is a much softer Anarchist Cookbook; the primary difference is that Steal this Book focuses chiefly on street survival skills, and ways to rip off restaurants. Don’t get me wrong though, the book ...

Pros: brilliant
Cons: out-dated, but still excellent

Viva la Revolution! It was said that this book would end free speech! Abbie Hoffman compiled a handbook for yippies to live by in Amerika during his era, and now some of it is outdated. But, in its day this book was the ultimate survival handbook for how...

Pros: You can get products free.There are things in the book that are still legal.
Cons: There are things in the book that you could possibly get into trouble doing.

This book came out when I was a child hanging around with my brother, who was my best friend. He already knew a lot of what was in there. One of our friends stole this book. What I liked about it is I have seen friends do exactly what Abby had told us we could do, and get away with it. It had a bit of everything including getting stuff free,including food and products legally and illegally. I would appreciate if anyone out there could tell me where I could find one. I would love to give them out to favorite friends for holidays.