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Summary: The funniest book I've ever read! 9.5!
Review: Mr. Barry's book is, undoubtedly, the funniest book I have ever read. It made me laugh at the ludicrousy of computers, the Internet, and life. I laughed through the entire book and nearly passed out at times from lack of oxygen.The ONLY reason why I would not give this book the 10 it really deserves is because I thought the "adult stuff" was really too much. I would not let anyone read this who was under twelve or thirteen years of age. I think that at least SOME of it could have been taken out and the book would have been just as enjoyable. This is one of those rare books that while reading it, the person sitting next to me had to turn to me and say, in this really concerned voice, "Are you okay?"
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Summary: An excellent reading of a funny book
Review: This unabridged reading is carried off very well by Shadoe Stevens. He has a voice that is pleasant to listen to for 6 hours, and an understanding of Dave Barry's sense of humor. And Dave Barry has an understanding of the deep and underlying sense of how ridiculous computers and the internet really are.
If you are wondering how a web site address or fonts could be read aloud this recording will answer these burning questions. The only downside is that there is no insert or cheat sheet listing the web site. I guess that's what the book is for.
More gentle readers should be warned that there is an occasional reference to sex and sexual organs, but this is done as tastefully as one would expect from Mr. Barry.
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Summary: A book on computers that actually makes sense!!
Review: Whether you are a computer whiz, or someone who wants to learn more about computers-this book if ro you!!
Dave Barry in Cyberspace is the book on computers-it actually makes sense!!
I've never realised that I, as a computer user, can be so typical and my habits can be so common. If you've ever experimented with making a documents look bigger than it is (dave barry tip:fonts), or spent time online and fallen in love-then you will understand this book.
From the funniest man there is-the funniest book-and the greatest book-on computers you will ever read-A MUST HAVE!!
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Summary: A boonie dog salute to Dave Barry!
Review: This is another book review by Wolfie and Kansas, the boonie dogs from Toto, Guam. Dave Barry, who, coincidentally, is the author of "Dave Barry in Cyberspace", once said that dogs "spend the bulk of their free time circling around with other dogs to see which one can sniff the other the most times in the crotch." This might cause one to suspect that we are writing this review in order to pan Mr. Barry's book in retaliation for that comment. This is not the case. The comment does not offend us because it is largely true, and, anyway, Mr. Barry says many similar things about his fellow humans. . . . We are actually reviewing this book because one of our reviews was named runner-up by Amazon.com in the April 1997 Book Reviews Contest. The review that beat us out was a review of a computer book. If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. We decided to review a computer book, and this is the only one we can understand. . . . "Dave Barry in Cyberspace" is a very funny book. Much of it had us LOL (dog-internetese for wagging our tails vigorously.) Some parts of this book had us ROTFL (dog-internetese for gleefully rolling in something very smelly.) However, one of Mr. Barry's predictions was sadly accurate in a way. Writing in mid-1996, he predicted that, by the the time his book reached its readers, some of the web pages he described "may have since gone out of existence for various reasons, such as that their creators were recalled to their home planets." In addition, we were confused by a couple things elsewhere in the book. Mr. Barry referred to the the Wicked Witch of the West holding Toto captive in a bicycle basket. How could our village fit in a bicycle basket? Also, Mr. Barry makes several unexplained references to Booger, who is a boonie dog here on Guam who lives a few miles south of us. . . . Those very minor reservations aside, this book was so much fun that we are willing to forgive and forget the author's earlier comment about crotch sniffing. Mr. Barry, just to prove there are no hard feelings, Wolfie salutes you--with one of his hind legs
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Summary: LOL! LOL!
Review: Great laughs for the hacker, techno-phobic or weenie-wanna-be in all of us. Dave Barry is a master humorist, and gives us a hilarious commentary on our love/hate/fear relationships with computers. His jokes about netiquette are excellent. Computers have never been more fun
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Summary: Buy, borrow or steal it
Review: This book is one of the funniest book about computers I read in a long time. D. Barry manages to take an almost complete tour of all the frustration, common place, clichés and generally bizarre or normal things that can (and most likely will) happen if / when you have a computer. The beginning of the book is my favorite. The tour of web pages is a bit of an anti-climax and what comes after seems more of a (still good) filler to have the mandatory minimum number of pages to put the book in print. The last bit is the reason it doesn't get a 10. But overall a very enjoyable book, I'd say a must read for any non serious computer hobbyist, professional, or passer-by. Since this was my first D. B. book, I'll be most likely reading some more of the same :-)
Thunus F.
Luxemburg
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Summary: A must read for any computer user!
Review: Dave Barry does it again with his wit of humor on real life adventures. I could not put it down and found myself laughing out loud. A definite must for computer users. His description of chat is right on the money, two thumbs up from the Average Guy
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Summary: Spit milk out my nose
Review: I'm a general Barry fan, but this is definitely his funniest book. His descriptions of how things work are so perfectly on target but Douglas-Adams-like, a little warped. One of the funniest bits in the book is when he describes an exchange in a newsgroup with one windows user trying to solve a problem. The reply refers the questioner through a dozen nested dialog boxes, ending with, and that didn't help and that's why I use heroin
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Summary: I finally laughed at the world ... and myself
Review: It's been a long time since I read something this funny.
I guess being as familiar with Dave Barry's subject matter
as I am, and being a long-time anti-fan of Bill Gates, Dave
was bound to tickle my funny bone. My fellow passengers
on the plane must have wondered what I had been smoking.
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Summary: For when you just don't want to take computers seriously
Review: This is good stuff. You can tell that Dave Barry really does know computers and the internet, but he doesn't let that stop him from writing a hilarious introduction to cyberspace for the layperson. Of course, it has been five years since he wrote the book, and anybody who has gotten to the point where he can read this review on Amazon probably knows most of what Dave Barry facetiously imparts here. Still, the book ages pretty well, and I doubt it was intended to help people learn to use computers anyway. (I hope not, at least!) Instead, the reader can laugh along as Dave Barry pokes fun at every aspect of the computer industry. At first I was somewhat surprised to see that so many reviews didn't like the short story at the end, "MsPtato and RayAdverb." I enjoyed it and thought it was very well written. The problem is that it's not very funny (nor do I think it was intended to be as humorous as the rest of the novel), so it seems out of place. On the other hand, the story is certainly on topic, since it's about a woman and mother of three who finds love on line after learning how to use her computer.
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