The Natural Superiority of the Left-Hander

Informative and very funny.

I am a "lefty, lefthander, and south paw". I grew up in the early 1940's , You can figure out about how many times I have taken the Earths ride around the sun. Legend in my family is that one of my grandfathers had the same gene. I learned to live in a right handed world that really made no accommodation for this handicap. The only problem I really faced was one 4th grade teacher who was determined to get me to use my right hand. Her 18' ruler only inflicted pain, not change. My beautiful report card had a beautiful RED "D" for penmanship. Baseball was not fun, because very few of us had gloves. We shared... They shared, I played bare handed. Football, basketball and swimming were more fun Being left handed did not matter.While in high school I requested to be assigned to a music program When the teacher saw me filling out the request form he handed me a double bass ( bass fiddle) I asked why, his answer was when you hold the strings down you will be using your strong hand. You will get better sound. The volume was great, but the pitch was a disaster. My right arm had to move the other essential part of the music the bow. Enough said. The author points with pride at left handers achievements and I applaud his effort and his research across several centuries and into evolution. It is professional and should not be taken lightly I shared my copy with many children in my school. It did help them to view the world from a different perspective. To paraphrase Mr. deKay, "In my heart I know we are right”. Our battle cry sbould be "LEFT ON!!"

Throughout my life, I've spent time trying to find the a set of lefty clubs for golf that weren't an arm and a leg, or a lefty mitt that wasn't terrible... or delt with right handed desks in school, and reading left to right and consequently writing left to right causing my hand to smear the ink/pencil, not to forget scissors, and spiral ring binders (curse you spiral binders)... to power tools... well you get the point. My entire life righty has kept me down!Righty has done so, because he knows I'm better than him. I also think the availability issue another reviewer makes mention of (searching his entire life for the book that undoubtedly saved him from righty as a child) is a conspiracy! Righty doesn't want you to know how much better you are, because that gives you power! Power righty doesn't want you to have!Righty has discriminated against us long enough; lefties it's time to come together and purchase every left handed person you know a copy of this book so we can begin our uprising and take our place in history as the leftful (see what I did there?) rulers of the world!On a more serious note...this book is an awesome gift (gag or otherwise) for any lefty, it might come off as a children's book, but there is some content I wouldn't approve of for that age range... unless of course you're looking for a way to introduce your kids to the term "group sex." But who am I kidding, kids hear worse in school these days... I blame righty.

My gramma got me this book when I was little bcz Im the only lefty in the family.I always notice other left handed people and let them know about this book.

My 8 year old daughter has been frustrated with being the only lefty in her class, so I ordered this book after one review said that it was geared toward a younger person, & thought it would encourage her. I'm really thankful that I read the book before giving it to her!!! There are interesting facts, fun illustrations and captions, but the scene where two men are looking at a brain is TOTALLY inappropriate for a young person!! First man: " Looks like the right cerebral hemisphere to me." Second man: " Either that, or group sex."So I guess if you're looking for a gag-type gift for an adult lefty, it might be okay, but this book is definitely not for children!I would tear out the page, but the opposite page goes into more detail of what each side of the brain does. I may just use white-out, but that would look tacky, too, so I'm not sure whether this will be a gift for her or go in the trash.

This is a 5 minute read. It’s a very interesting but minimal take on left handed people. Very cool though. The illustrations could also double as a coloring book.

I bought the book for my nephew's 15th birthday and he got a big kick out of it, along with his Dad and 13 year old sister who are also "lefties." A very quick read but lots of interesting and fun facts. We all had some good laughs.

First of all this is a book of facts/trivia. Each fact has an accompanying illustration. And there is one fact/trivia item and illustration for every two pages. As an example "They literally think differently, even when solving the same problem as a right-hander. Right-handers adapt comfortably to abstractions. But left-handers tend to translate everything into visual imagery." Those words with two pictures, make up the content of two entire pages. The book is roughly around 100 pages, so figure about 50 statements like the one above. The words of the entire book could be on a handful of pages. But the font is big, the illustrations are big, and so it's close to 100 pages. It takes seconds to read two pages, and the whole book can be read in less than 10 minutes. The facts were interesting, there is just not enough of them for this to really be a book.

This is a completely biased review of a fairly wacky book. It is a series of cartoons about all things left-handed.It has some curiosities such as the Scottish Castle with the spiral staircases the left way round so that the abnormal distribution of left-handers among the clan can easily wield a sword in order to repel would be invaders. There are also some statistics about left-handedness in various professions (when the book was written NASA astronauts were 250% more likely to be left-handed than the general population.It's a fun book which any left-hander in your circle might find amusing. The review title is a quote from the book.

Great. Loved it.

J'avais vu ce livre dans un pub et souhaitais l'ajouter à ma bibliothèque. Le prix est très intéressant et le vendeur parfait. Ravie de mon achat.