“Dave Barry lets loose another irreverent book.… Be sure to read the footnotes in this really funny volume.”
—Abilene Reporter-News (TX)
“Barry has run amuck again, and until someone tosses a big net over him he will easily remain one of the funniest fellows writing today. This book is a true original.… You can call it satire, or you can call it pure extravaganza, but it is always boisterously funny. Barry’s bull’s-eye spoofs keep you chuckling—except when the chuckle becomes a loud guffaw.… Barry even succeeds in the improbable task of writing amusing footnotes. This is Barry at his best.”
—Library Journal
“Dave Barry has written more than a score of funny books, a full 69% of them bearing the words ‘Dave Barry’ in the title. Now, maintaining Dave Barry’s high standards, Dave Barry turns political pundit, employing Dave Barry’s firm grip on matters governmental as well as a lot of other foolishness.… There’s some courtroom dialogue worthy of the Marx Brothers.… Dave Barry Is Still At It. Laughing will only encourage him—but that would be okay.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“Satirical, hard-hitting political commentary … Once again the winner is … Dave Barry.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Barry is in fine form.… Definitely good for more than a few laughs.”
—Booklist
Praise for Dave Barry Is Not Taking This Sitting Down!
“One of Barry’s best collections, this book should delight his devoted readers and will surely make the uninitiated sit up and take notice.”
—Associated Press
“Barry is as funny as ever.… A gifted and engaging humorist, Barry never ceases to entertain: no matter what subject, he can always find a side-splitting twist.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Dave Barry fans, unite! … The humor is sometimes silly, sometimes embarrassing, but always vintage Dave Barry.”
—The Sunday Oregonian
“Riffing off TV commercials with his brushes with famous people or his perplexities about women (his wife) and teenagers (his son), Barry flits among inspirations for his subjects, and that expectation of the unexpected is what has kept him popular for years. His fans will enjoy this reprise.”
—Booklist
“One of America’s favorite funny men.”
—The Arizona Republic
“Always good for grins.”
—San Antonio Express-News
Praise for Dave Barry Turns 50
“Riotous … [Barry] can find the humor in pretty much anything. And … he does not intend to go even slightly gently into that good night.… Barry’s light-hearted, Everyman humor and what-me-worry grin have evoked comparisons with Mark Twain and Will Rogers, and earned him the Washington Post designation of America’s Humorist.”
—San Francisco Examiner
“Barry will prompt most baby boomers to laugh out loud.… His chapters on retirement planning and facing mortality are not only funny but right on. ‘Right on’—you remember that phrase, don’t you?”
—The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
“With age comes wisdom, among other ailments. [Barry’s] no longer the happy-go-lucky, long-haired weirdo of his youth. Now the long hair sprouts from his ears. Getting older may be inevitable, but as Barry shows, there’s no reason to take it with a straight face.”
—BookPage
“It’s the look back at TV commercials, politics, inventions, and attitudes that really makes those who have seen it all (much of ‘it’ through trifocals) chortle out loud. It’s not unlike an archaeological dig through an attic, choking from laughter rather than dust, as familiar and forgotten memories are refreshed and taken for a satirical synaptic spin by a master humorist.”
—Publishers Weekly
“Guess you’d better buy this book now while you can still read the print.”
—Library Journal
“A bushel of chuckles for readers.”
—Booklist
Praise for Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus
“These down-to-earth observations on topics as random as men’s fashion, dogsledding, and reincarnation are a hoot.”
—People
“The introduction on how the book got its title is worth the price alone.… You’ll laugh outright.”
—Atlanta Journal-Constitution
“Another winner … I realize how dangerous it is to tell anyone that when you read this book, or see that movie, ‘You’ll laugh out loud.’ Let’s just say, I did.… It’s Barry at his sympathetic best.”
—Arizona Daily Star
“Vintage Dave Barry … If you’re willing, nay eager, to read about the Ultimate Water Gun, Older Male Brain Shrinkage, what knowledge bees may be hiding from humans, and more, this is the book for you.”
—Austin American-Statesman
“Those not fortunate enough to live in cities where Barry’s columns are syndicated have a special treat in this newest collection.… As his fans will expect, the pieces are delightful.… Barry has another success here.”
—Publishers Weekly
“The author writes with ease and whimsicality on almost every subject that chances to catch his fancy.… At a time when so many people are in a chronic state of irritation, suspicion, and mental jaundice, the effect of the book is soothing. It cleans the palate … like a cool sorbet.”
—Library Journal
Praise for Dave Barry Is Not Making this Up
“Hilarious … Might be his best yet.”
—Associated Press
“Truth may or may not be stranger than fiction, but in Dave Barry’s hands, it sure is funnier.”
—The Roanoke Times
“Barry at his best.”
—Baltimore Sun
“Barry goes directly to the funny bone and tickles readers something hilarious with outrageous, near-senseless tales about exploding Pop-tarts and the world’s fastest lawnmower.”
—The Gazette (Montreal)
“He zaps the funny bone.”
—The Cincinnati Post
“Barry is in top form.”
—Publishers Weekly
Praise for Dave Barry’s Only Travel Guide You’ll Ever Need
“Read it and die laughing.”
—New York Daily News
“Goofy, silly, transcendentally churlish … This is a funny book.”
—The Cleveland Plain Dealer
“[Dave Barry is] one of the funniest people ever to tap on a PC. This new book is a riot.”
—The Philadelphia Inquirer
“Read ’em and laugh.… If there’s one thing you can count on from Dave Barry, it’s extreme humor. Nonstop yuks.”
—Dallas News
“Dave Barry is the only living writer who makes me laugh out loud, something he accomplished on virtually every page of his latest collection of craziness—from the introduction to the final page.”
—The Boston Globe
“Have you ever had a vacation where you didn’t lose the car keys or traveler’s checks, get a seat on the plane next to a crying baby or airsick adult, or end up divorced without ever going near Nevada? If so, you probably wouldn’t understand what’s so funny about Dave Barry’s Only Travel Guide You’ll Ever Need. The rest of us, however, would.”
—The Kansas City Star
“For good old belly laughs and delightful play with clichés of the language, there’s Dave Barry’s Only Travel Guide You’ll Ever Need.”
—The Boston Phoenix
These folks just love Dave Barry
“Reading Barry with another person in the room invariably elicits one of two responses: ‘What’s so funny?’ or ‘For God’s sake, shut up.’ ”
—The New York Times
“Quoting Barry is like eating peanuts.… Once you get started it’s awfully hard to stop.”
—The Washington Post
“It may be too soon to declare Dave Barry a national treasure, but it’s never too late to recognize him as a natural phenomenon. His endless inventive string of improbabilities, non sequiturs, and bizarre conclusions, his dependable unpredictablity, surely doesn’t have a rational origin. He is just plain funny.”
—Arizona Daily Star
“I can’t resist this guy. I know, I know. He’s just a really smart fraternity boy. But the adjective is real, in italics, real smart, and with a gift for hyperbole that frequently astounds.… Barry manages, almost always, to pluck something out of the news and turn it into, well, a Sigma Chi laff riot.”
—Minneapolis Star-Tribune