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Summary: Another Great Collection
Review: Although you're not going to miss much if you're an avid reader, Dave Barry's newest collection of columns is hilarious and well worth it whether you've read them all before or not. It has all the great features a book by Dave needs:1. Dave's name on the front. 2. A toilet. So, if you know Dave, you know what to do. But if you're new to Dave, this is a great book to start with.
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Summary: You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll laugh again
Review: Dave Barry himself deserves six stars at least. This is his latest hilarious collection of columns from papers across the nation. Mr. Barry is as gut-wrenchingly funny as ever. (And he got a toilet on the cover of the book) Among the intense, serious topics discussed in this are: *"Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" and their questioning system ("You call your mother DURING THE X-FILES??") *The new toilets and why we hate them so much. ("They stink. Literally") *The return of Mr. Language Person! ("I Lost 40 Lbs. in Two Months! Call For Free Samples!") *Titanic II: The Sequel (Starring Leonardo DeDweebio and Demi Moore) *Luwak coffee, which is so disgusting that I probably wouldn't get this review posted if I told you what it is and how it's *ahem* processed. *Childbirth classes ("...when the woman in the movie makes a noise identical to what you'd hear if a live yak went through a garlic press...") And many more. Mr. Barry thrives on the absurdity of real life in his own warped universe, and the scariest thing is that he makes a great deal of sense. He also has an endearing way of creating a perfectly normal sentence, and then ending it with something bizarre like "weasel boogers." With the help of alert (or possibly insane) readers across the world, Mr. Barry brings the weekly belly-laugh to American doors. And this fantastic (or possibly insane) volume is every ounce as good as the previous ones.
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Summary: Laughed myself to tears
Review: Dave Barry is just too funny. It's not just what he says, it's his tempo, which makes him an excellent---and fast---read. I bought this book last night at an airport and laughed so hard I cried right in front of everyone on the plane. Each chapter is 3-4 pages long, about everyday events in classic style. You won't be able to turn the pages fast enough.
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Summary: Hilarity for everyone on every topic
Review: Dave Barry who can make a prison lifer laugh until his internal organs burst, meaning that he can make someone laugh about...anything. This is the first Dave Barry book I have read and it has put me on a diet of his humor for a long time. His essays/columns are the perfect length for any subject. I admit that I have had quite a few natural laughing highs since reading his words. I highly suggest this book for anyone.
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Summary: The Issues That America Cares About (TM)
Review: Dave Barry's the best humorist ever to grace the newspapers. How he manages is to make his stuff consistently funny, only he knows. Not to mention the way he works the phrase Weasel Boogers in. While this isn't as funny as my favorite of his, Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs, this is one of the better column collections. There's topics ranging from American Airlines' "Bistro" style food ("A lot better than saying 'a sack of inedible objects'"), Who Wants To Be A Millionaire ("The dramatic hit quiz show that has all of America wondering, how, exactly I [Regis] became famous in the first place."); not to mention colleges, low-flow toilets (his idea for that solution is to declare war on Canada), Online stock trading ("You should try to pick a broker with a good TV commercial"), taxes, lots of stuff on Airlines, The Rolling Stones, and, my personal favorite, Mr. Language Person ("You got a question for Mr. Language Person? He does not care"). Oh, and The Low Flow Millionaires would make a great name for a rock band.
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Summary: Hilarity for everyone on every topic
Review: Huge S.U.Vs, hormonal-pregnant women, teen-age sons and rock music...nothing is safe from Dave Barry's sarcastic wit and humor. Dave asserts that all the cool rock bands were the Rolling Stones and the Beach boys and the stuff his son listens to is garbage (he also asserts that his son listens to bands with names such as "Heave" and "Squatting Turnips"). This just goes to show you that Dave is old, but he doesn't mind making fun of the fact that he's old. Dave appeals to the government, insisting that we declare war on Canada for reasons that escape me at the moment. Oh, and by the way, I wouldn't drink that Luwak coffee if I were you.
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Summary: Another classic from Dave Barry!
Review: Huge S.U.Vs, hormonal-pregnant women, teen-age sons and rock music...nothing is safe from Dave Barry's sarcastic wit and humor. Dave asserts that all the cool rock bands were the Rolling Stones and the Beach boys and the stuff his son listens to is garbage (he also asserts that his son listens to bands with names such as "Heave" and "Squatting Turnips"). This just goes to show you that Dave is old, but he doesn't mind making fun of the fact that he's old. Dave appeals to the government, insisting that we declare war on Canada for reasons that escape me at the moment. Oh, and by the way, I wouldn't drink that Luwak coffee if I were you.
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Summary: READ THE BOOK, SKIP THE AUDIO VERSION!
Review: I am reviewing the audio version of the book. I would give this zero stars if I could, only because of the narration. As usualy, Dave Barry is very funny, but it doesn't come through in this version because it's impossible to get past the narrator's reading. In a word, he is AWFUL. He sounds like a combination between a bad Paul Harvey impersonator and the adult voice of Ralphie in "A Christmas Story." His timing and inflection are totally wrong for the material and he completely ruins the whole book. I couldn't get through one of the five CDs before I wanted to throw the thing out the window. It would have been great if they had used someone like Harry Anderson (who played a fictionalized version of Dave on TV a few years ago) to read this, and then perhaps Barry's humor would have come through. If you like Dave Barry, skip the audio book and read the paper version.
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Summary: Still the best humorist in the world
Review: I have read everything by Barry and, after almost two decades, I am still amazed by his ability to put intelligent humor sentence by sentence in his essays. No matter how many humorist writers I try, no one match even half of Barry's wit. Here are some examples of the themes discussed by Barry in this book: * Public art (I'm the type of person who will stand in front of a certified modern masterpiece painting that looks, to the layperson, like a big black square, and quietly think: "Maybe the actual painting is on the other side") * Who wants to be a millionaire (For $100, which of the following is NOT really a letter? (A) "A"; (B) "B"; (C) "C"; or (D) The Grand Canyon) * Road rage (...researchers for the National Institute of Traffic Safety recently did a study in which they drove on the interstate highway system in a specially equipped observation van. By the third day, they were deliberately running other motorists off the road. "These people are MORONS!" was there official report) You will find also the solution to the mystery of the Blair Witch project, the history of diets, excerpts of the screenplay for "Titanic 2", the problems with new toilets, his adventures as team mascot, and many more. Expect the usual lack of correct facts, the participation of Alert Readers, mottos, Mr. Language Person and, of course, nice names for rock bands. Highly recommended.
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Summary: I agree with Everett -- the audio version is terrible
Review: I wish I had followed Everett Logan's advice and skipped this cassette. You can tell that the material itself is great, but the narrator is terrible, terrible, terrible. He dumbs down the text. I bought this to give to someone recuperating from surgery, but decided to listen to it myself first. I'm glad I did -- I would have been embarrassed to give this to anyone.
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