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Summary: Tricky Business, This Review
Review: CMOT (of afdb fame -- that's me) read this book and liked it despite its lukewarm reception by the literary reviews I've read. I was entertained, amused, and almost did a spit take whilst reading it on a flight from LAS to MIA. Any book that makes you an in-flight nuisance is well worth it.It is funny and more of a book than Big Trouble -- but it's not like the Dave you all know and love from his columns.
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Summary: Very Funny and Entertaining
Review: This was one of the funniest audio books I have listened to in a long time. Dave Barry is wonderful and the reader Dick Hill does a wonderful job with the different characters.
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Summary: I Laughed and Laughed
Review: In Tricky Business author Dave Barry treats readers to a rocking good time with the looney cast and crew aboard the good (?) ship "Extravaganza of the Seas" a South Florida Casino Ship with a Drug Smuggling/money laundering sideline about to go horribly (and hilariously) awry. Cautions about the content should be heeded: if you are offended by violent, scatalogical or just plain gross content this book is not for you -- they say you should write what you know and clearly Dave Barry knows a LOT about vomit. But he also knows what's funny -- from the octogenarian nursing home escapees to the mobster wannabe in his clam suit costume to the aging potheads in the band and the flatulent waitress (okay another thing he knows WAY too much about)Dave Barry loves the inane and the absurd among us. In Tricky Business, the ridiculous meets the criminal and the result is the most fun since Gilligan set sail.
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Summary: A bit TOO much!
Review: I am a very, very, very, big fan of Dave Barry. But, this book underminds his intellegent writing. I loved Big Trouble. It had a wonderful but simple plot. I mean it HAD a plot! Tricky Business lacks that one important detail you need in a book. It seems this book just tries to pull us along by American Pie gross-out humor. There was no thought put into they way people acted or killed each other. Just cut the balls off, and get it over with. Compared to Tim Dorsey or Hiassan, who think of funny invetive ways to kill people. The characters are too sterotypical. I found myself not caring for any of the characters if they died or lived, it made no difference to me. This book was just churned out of the factory like a really bad movie sequel.
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Summary: its......alright.
Review: this book is a very entertaining read.....it kept me pretty intrested...but seemed very unbelievable in some parts like.....how the news crew kept dying......barry was probably making a joke about the media or something.....but he took it to far and made it unbeliveable. i dont think this will be on any classic novel list anytime soon, but if you've already read everything thats meaningful and your bored .........go for it.
peace.
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Summary: Good, not up to standard set in Big Trouble
Review: Dave Barry has written another entertaining book, but not even close to the quality of his debut novel, Big Trouble. This is a quick read, but I would wait for the paperback to buy this one. To be honest, it almost seemed like Mr. Barry was trying to write a novel from which you could make a movie. There is a lot of fast flowing dialogue but the descriptions leave a little to be desired. There is something to be said for focusing on conversation between characters, but it made the book light. I do love Barry's humour and the way that things mentioned in page 2 always show up in page 150, when you are least expecting it.
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Summary: Good but his comedy work is better
Review: Dave is stretching and it isn't as good as his first book, but I did like it. There is a warning in the front of the book that this one contains bad language, and he isn't kidding. I'm a fan of murder mysteries and there is some mystery here, but not a lot. I like those werid Floridain mobster kill/sex/drugs books, and there are a number of them but this one is better than those. At least the comdeic elements can make you laugh, although if this were to really happen, no one would be laughing. So if you liked Big Trouble you'll like this one.
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Summary: Say it ain't so, Dave.
Review: I'm a big fan of Dave Barry's work. I never miss a column, and I enjoyed his first novel, Big Trouble. But this second novel was a Big Disappointment. It has too many characters, some of them indistinguishable, some of them cliches. The plot drags. Worst of all, it doesn't offer more than a couple of laughs. The humor seems to be aimed at 14-year-olds. So does the stomach-twisting violence. And how many vomit scenes do we really need?
Read something else of Barry's; don't bother with this.
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Summary: Maybe alittle to much Tricky Business
Review: I like Dave Barry, the man is so funny. I though Big Trouble was (and still is) the funniest book I've ever read. Yesterday I finished Tricky Business. There were parts in it that were really funny. I loved Johnnys version of 'My Funny Valentine'. I didn't like how some of the peoples history had to do with cheating and how about half the people in the book got killed. Most of them got killed by the same guy too. One dude got his nose and balls cut off by him. Didn't expect that one. This book was ok in some respects but I hope the next Book Dave puts out is a little less on the violence and stupid people cheating on each other.
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Summary: Sophomore slump?
Review: I enjoyed Big Trouble a lot, but this one didn't grab me as much. Well, I guess it still GRABBED me, as the plot kept motoring along and I wanted to know what would happen next... but I didn't enjoy it as much. And I think the main reason was the gratuitous violence. There really is too much of it, and it's too graphic. Stomach-churning, literally. The old farts from the nursing home are a riot, however. (And they're not involved in any of the violence!)
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