Thread: Sharp Practice: The real man's guide to shaving

Based on a review over at B&B, I ordered a copy of the book titled, Sharp Practice: The real man's guide to shaving by Anders Larsen, 2006, Bantam Press.

The book is a mixture of honest to goodness instruction on shaving mixed with tons of shaving history and stories from the author's life. Luckily, he's a well traveled man and his stories are far better than mine.He spends a good deal of time explaining how shaving came to be what it is, his experiences with shaving and his reasoning for writing the book. At times it has a 'Around the world with...' nostalgic feel and at other times, a total modern outlook. He notes that he screwed up his blade once and went panicking to a web forum for help on how to get it back into shape (hmm.... I wonder if it was SRP?).

It's a fast and informative read. You could easily finish it on a 2-3 hour flight, and it's pretty funny as well. I highly recommend it.

It cost me $23 shipped from the UK. In fact, it is only available on Amazon UK. I'll recycle it if anyone is interested. $20 shipped within the US.

- thx John