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    Guy Langman, Crime Scene Procrastinator

    Written by Josh Berk

    Narrated by Jim Meskimen

    3.5/5

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    Guy Langman can't be bothered with much. But when his friend Anoop wants Guy to join the forensics club with him in the (possibly misguided) hopes of impressing some girls, Guy thinks why not.

    They certainly aren't expecting to find a real dead body on the simulated crime scene they're assigned to collect evidence from. But after some girlish, undignified screaming, the two realize it is indeed a body. Which means they have stumbled across a real, dead murder victim.

    Meanwhile, Guy has been looking into the past of his father-a larger-than-life character who recently passed away. He was much older than Guy's mom, and had a whole past Guy never even knew about. Could his father's past and the dead body be linked? Does Guy want to know? He's going to need all his newfound forensics skills to find out . . .

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateMar 13, 2012
    ISBN9780307968456
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    Guy Langman, Crime Scene Procrastinator
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    Josh Berk

    Josh Berk is the author of Camp Murderface, The Dark Days of Hamburger Halpin, and several other books for young readers. He is a librarian and lives in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, with his family.

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    Reviews for Guy Langman, Crime Scene Procrastinator

    3.5/5

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    • 2/5
      This book was on the Collaborative Summer Reading Program bibliography for books with a forensics theme (and I really wanted to like it better). However, the best way to review it is describing it as "the good, the bad and the ugly." THE GOOD: The lead character Guy Langman is likable enough as he is dealing with his father's death (and the author handles a 16-year-old dealing with grief in a realistic manner); the supporting characters are also likable, especially Maureen (who ends up being Guy's unlikely love interest); and the author does make forensics interesting and the mystery is resolved in a manner that is satisfying. THE BAD: I found the stereotyping (although handled with attempted humor)to be distracting--the worst being Guy's jokes about being Jewish and his jokes about Indian best friend Anoop. Also, as it is written from a teenage male's point of view, the female characters are also described more according to their physical appearance (to put it nicely) than their personality traits (although the author does make up for this by the end with Guy's budding relationship with Maureen). THE UGLY: There is a lot of language and sexual slang used so I'd only recommend it to mature teen readers.
    • 3/5
      Cute, funny guy read with well-drawn characters.
    • 3/5
      Guy is still dealing with the loss of his larger-than-life father. When someone breaks into his home and steals the coins his dad discovered as part of a sunken treasure (Really), he and his friends from the forensics club are on the case to try to figure it out. The stakes get higher after they also discover a dead body on a golf course with matching prints! A bit slow at times, but the characters are quirky and likeable.
    • 4/5
      I got this book from netgalley (first book I got from them for which I am truly grateful) and even though I just finished reading it I can't wait to get my hands on a physical copy once it's released (March 2012, can you believe we all have to wait that long?!).

      This book managed to be consistently funny, but in a completely believable way, none of it seemed forced. The dialogue was a thing of beauty. I know it's a weird thing to say when describing teens talking, but that's just it - it was so unfailingly real.

      But what I really loved about this book was its use of humour. The book, as I've said, is funny from beginning to end. Bear in mind I don't usually say this about just any book, humour is one of the few things I take seriously. But it's more than just that. Berk mixes in humorous dialogue or observations with more emotional moments, making them all the more poignant and sweeter. It's rare for an author to successfully use humour like that. Most will just write some jokes for their characters to blab so they can draw a few laughs from their readers, but to use it so well that it draws attention to deeper issues in the plot and the characters' lives and personalities... That is rare! I really hope other readers will take notice of that when they read the book, because this book really deserves to be noticed.

      The plot is tight and never fails to draw the reader in. The characters are believable and well-written.

      Honestly I could spend a long time writing about this book, but it just frustrates me that I'm not a great reviewer who could manage to do it justice.

      That being said, I recommend this book to everyone, I don't see how anyone could dislike it. I may be a bit biased since I was a forensics nerd in high school and later a forensics nerd in university so a lot of it rang true. So if you have some forensics nerd friends, this book will be a solid gift when it comes out.
    • 2/5
      I was a bit disappointed when I read the book. It’s not very bad, but after I read what it was about, I had hoped to see the murder victim and the investigation sooner. The murder victim doesn’t appear until the second half of the book. The first half is very slow and although it is not too boring to see Guy’s everyday life, this could have been written a bit faster.

      The second half of the book, on the other hand, is very interesting to read. We finally see the murder and the investigation has some nice plot twists.

      The story is narrated in first person by Guy. As the book starts with the burial of Guy’s father, we don’t know much about Guy previous to that and how or if his behaviour changed much after it. Although he can be witty and funny, most of the time his jokes are silly. Jokes about sex and the male anatomy are not funny if they are repeated all the time (or they are not funny at all). You only have to imagine all the things you don’t like about teenage boys and put them in one person and you have Guy. He’s not all bad and can be good if he really needs to, but most of the time he behaves like a spoilt ten year old.

      This doesn’t change until he finds the murdered boy. As the boy looks like him and he has reasons to believe somebody is after him, Guy thinks he was murdered by mistake and that the real murder victim was meant to be himself. This forces him to grow up, so that the Guy we see in the second half of the book is much more mature.

      If you like criminal mysteries and can make it through the first part of this book, you’ll enjoy the rest.
    • 4/5
      What a fun book! (Although it does perhaps give a little too much information about the thought process of teenage boys for those of us who aren't and never have been one to feel totally comfortable with. Especially if you work in close proximity to them every day and/or happen to live with one.) I didn't go into it expecting a big crime mystery (he is the crime scene procrastinator, after all) so I wasn't at all disappointed that the actual crime was such a small part of the book. Instead it was a witty, funny (again, teenage boy-style witty and funny, but still...) book about a boy who lost his father and is trying to figure out both his place in the world and how to cope with his mother's and his own grief. It had me laughing out loud one minute, cringing at his truly bad and tasteless jokes the next. I think every high school class out there has at least one Guy Langman in it, so anyone who's ever been to high school can identify with this book at least a little. Crime drama it isn't. Looking for a quirky coming-of-age story, though? Case closed.

      Though, honestly, do teenage boys really toss around all those "your mother" jokes? As the mother of a teenage boy, it's more than a little disconcerting....
    • 3/5
      Guy Langman's father was really old; Guy is the child of a second marriage late in life for his dad. When his dad dies, Guy begins keeping a journal for his grief (in reality it's for his bawdy, inappropriately crude humor) at the request of his psychologist. The book is the journal entries. At school, his friend Anup drags him to a new forensics club in hopes of getting to know girls better. However, when a real-life murder takes place, Guy and his club members decide it's up to them to solve the mystery.The novel is written at about a third or fourth grade level, but the incessant locker room language, plus a little of the subject matter, put this one off limits for most students likely until 8th grade. Essentially, it's a high interest low level novel that might find traction with some reluctant readers. I was a bit turned off by the stupid puns and the incessent locker room talk, but that might be what draws some readers to the book more than the CSI angle.
    • 5/5
      Book review by Carlos A., posted by CA Library:"Guy Langman Crime Scene Procrastinator by Josh Beck is a realistic fiction that is told in 3rd person. The protagonist of the book is a teenage boy named Guy Langman. The setting of the story is in North Ridge, New JerseyGuy Langman is a normal high school kid with high school problems until his dad dies. When his father passes, it is very hard for Guy. He is told to join the forensics squad in school.Guy joins the forensics squad and they will be responsible for working together to find their (fake) murder victim and weapons etc., when Guy comes across a very real dead corpse.Although not done with the book, I was fully satisfied with Josh Beck’s phenomenal writing. He had me pulled in right from the start of the book. If I had to give the book a rating out of 5 stars it would be 4.5 I would rate the book that because it lost me in points of the book, it made me lose focus. I would recommend this book to people 10 or older also for people that enjoy a good read."
    • 2/5
      This is very definitely fiction for "guys". I didn't appreciate the humor, but it wasn't written for readers like me. I can see some of my more reluctant readers totally getting the humor .
    • 4/5
      Review:Guy Langman, Crime Scene by Procrastinator Josh Berk 4 STARSGuy Langman is in high school. He is still reeling from his fathers death. He has gone to some counceling. his father was over 20 years older than his mom. Guy is known for being lazy.Anoop Chattopadhyay is best friend and has talked him into joining the forensic club after school. also drives Guy around because no license or car.Guy decides he is going to write a book about his dad. All the sayings he said.Guy realized their was a lot he did not know about his dad. One secret is he has a older brother. With the lessons he learned from picture that his mom lied. The guy in the picture was his dads son.They are dealing with high school issues,plus morning and trying to solve a real crime.I was enjoying the ebook I was given the ebook to review the book from Netgalley.03/13/2012 PUB Random House Children's Books Alfred A. Knopf BFYR