Dave Barry's Greatest Hits - Softcover

Barry, Dave

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0449904067 ISBN 13: 9780449904060

Publisher: Ballantine Books, 1989

Synopsis

"Mr. Barry is the funniest man in America and we should encourage him. Buy this book."
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
What Pultizer Prize-winning humorist Dave Barry did for American history in DAVE BARRY SLEPT HERE and for getting older in DAVE BARRY TURNS FORTY, he does for...everything else in America! The rapacious consumer of overpriced real estate, He Man action figures, and homemade beer sounds off on all the things that make life as we know it both ridiculous and sublime.

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Review:

A Greatest Hits package to die for, in which the inimitable, Pulitzer-packing humorist applies himself to taxes, toilets, airbags, baseball, beer commercials, and numerous other American artifacts. A typical bit, from a piece on legalized gambling: "Off-Track Betting parlors are the kinds of places where you never see signs that say, 'Thank You for Not Smoking.' The best you could hope for is, 'Thank You for Not Spitting Pieces of Your Cigar on My Neck.'" Happy? There's plenty more where that came from.

From the Publisher:

When I was a teenager, we used to have a Sunday morning ritual in my family. I'd drag myself out of bed and head downstairs to have my breakfast (which, according to the clock, usually should have been more like lunch). My father would greet me with the excited words "You have to hear Dave Barry today!" What proceeded was nothing less than a milk-spewing laugh-fest as I tried to eat my soggy cereal while my father read Barry's column aloud to me.

I love "Dave Barry's Greatest Hits" because it lets me relive all that spewed milk and those snarfed Rice Krispies.

If you discovered Barry through his column, this book is a great way to revisit those favorites that you haven't read since they first appeared in the paper. And if you've never read any of Dave Barry's work, then consider yourself warned: Do not attempt to read this book and eat at the same time (unless, of course, the idea of snorting your milk in front of others appeals to you).

--Cassie Nylen, Copy Assistant

About this edition

• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0449904067
• ISBN 13: 9780449904060
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304