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Summary: A hilariously funny book
Review: Dave Barry is one of the cleverest men alive. His ability to come up with these funny books is simply amazing. To completely appreciate this book, you should review some old songs from the 60's through the 80's. My personal favorite joke in the book was when he took the song "Timothy" and the song "Yummy, Yummy, Yummy I got love in my Tummy" and made it "Yummy, Yummy, Yummy I got Tim in my Tummy (if you know the lyrics to both songs, you would get the joke)". Or when he took the song "There Ain't No Woman Like the One I Got" and made it "There Ain't no Woman Like the One-eyed Gott." Well, I don't want to give the whole book away, but those are just a few of the jokes in the book.
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Summary: Teenage Death Songs, Weenie Songs, etc....
Review: Dave delights (& horrifies) us once again with hilarious commentary on materials collected over the years from his Alert Readers. The subject: a long list of Really Bad Songs that will take up space in your brain that could otherwise be put to good use.No genre of music is spared. Neither are we. We are treated to reminders of Country, Rock `n' Roll, and all sorts of well-known "popular" selections in between that we would have rather forgotten and which will now be playing in the backs of our brains all night. The compensation is that we will get to laugh first. If you generally find yourself snickering, chortling or otherwise guffawing as you read Dave Barry, this book will be no exception. I especially recommend the Audio version to listen to as you embark on a long road trip.
-Andrea, aka Merribelle
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Summary: Teenage Death Songs, Weenie Songs, etc....
Review: Dave delights (& horrifies) us once again with hilarious commentary on materials collected over the years from his Alert Readers. The subject: a long list of Really Bad Songs that will take up space in your brain that could otherwise be put to good use. No genre of music is spared. Neither are we. We are treated to reminders of Country, Rock 'n' Roll, and all sorts of well-known "popular" selections in between that we would have rather forgotten and which will now be playing in the backs of our brains all night. The compensation is that we will get to laugh first. If you generally find yourself snickering, chortling or otherwise guffawing as you read Dave Barry, this book will be no exception. I especially recommend the Audio version to listen to as you embark on a long road trip.
-Andrea, aka Merribelle
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Summary: Be Forewarned -- Audio Version is Awful!
Review: Even to a longstanding Barry fan, the audiotape version of this book is not worth a nickle. He's great on paper, but not on Memorex.
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Summary: only writer who can get away with the word "booger"
Review: Funny, funny, funny, funny....
Barry is truly one of the best satirical writers of modern times. He thinks of things that make you go "oh yeah! I never thought of it that way before!"
Anna(edwin@ridgecrest.ca.us)
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Summary: Knock 3 Times
Review: I bought this book because I do enjoy Dave Barry. I took it with me to read while I ate a quick dinner at a sushi bar. I ended up laughing so hard I was crying and I could not hold my chopsticks. The chefs were just staring. I tried to explain the book to them and we ended up singing Knock 3 Times together, 3 Korean sushi chefs, 1 Malaysian waiter and 1 DIvinity School student. I read parts of the book over the phone to all my friends, until they were annoyed because I couldn't finish a sentence for laughing so hard. Every time I read this book, I cry and cry because I can't stop giggling. Buy and read it! Buy and share it! Buy and write to Dave for a further edition!!
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Summary: who needs an abdominizer when you have this hilarious book?
Review: I bought this book on sight, and on the way home started reading it aloud for the benefit of the driver of the car. After a while, I was laughing so hard I could barely keep reading and my abdomen was aching from laughter. Not long after that, the driver pulled over because he was laughing, too. This book will do your heart good (well, unless you're a Neil Diamond fan); seeing all those wretched songs dealt with as they deserve is a joy; the anecdotes from survey respondents are great, too. This book also gives me hope for the future of America, in view of Dave Berry's report that the antiperistaltic "In the Year 2525" gave rise to the most intense hatred of any song in the Bad Song Survey.
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Summary: PLEASE Dave, do another!!!
Review: I bought this book, and my husband and I literally hurt our sides laughing. I loaned it to a friend, and she told me that she was sick in bed and was in agony laughing, as she already wasn't feeling well and it made her sides hurt even worse. Her daughter visited, and read the book, and was in hysterics, and when the daughter returned to St Louis, she bought copies for herself and HER friends. True story!
Warning: If you're under 30 you may not get all of it, it's made for people who are familiar with music from the 60s-70s. Laugh at Dave making fun of Neil Diamond-style lyrics such as, "No one heard, not even the chair." Enjoy Dave going after Paul McCartney's "Wo Wo Wo Wo." We howled at Dave pointing out something odd in The Captain and Tennille's "Do That To Me One More Time." She sings that once is never enough with a man like him. Is this an insult??
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Summary: I can't believe he got them all!
Review: I felt as though I was enduring a coast to coast auto trip with my car's AM radio permanently tuned to a station that played every song I ever hated. As usual, Dave hits the nail on the head as only he can.
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Summary: MacArthur park
Review: I hate this song and like this book.
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