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Title: Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus by Dave Barry ISBN: 0345425782 Publisher: Ballantine Books (Trd Pap) Pub. Date: 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.77
Rating: 5
Summary: One of Barry's best
Comment: Some of my favorite Dave Barry books are his collections of columns, particularly because I never seem to be able to keep up with his weekly column in the Sunday paper. This is one of those collections of columns, and one of the things I like about it is that he put in a lot of columns along with the columns he wrote about the responses he got from those columns. And believe me, this guy gets some very interesting people writing him nasty letters and sending him newspaper articles. Read this book, you'll love it!
Rating: 5
Summary: This book is hilarious of course because Dave Barry wrote it
Comment: This book had me laughing out loud. I especially liked the bit on consumer packaging. If you've never read any of Dave Barry's works, this is a good place to start.
Rating: 5
Summary: ...and he is also the best one from the Earth!
Comment: For starters, this could easily be the best Dave Barry's collection of columns ever.
His account on the Very First Thanksgiving, his solution to the Drug Problem (thru the use of modern packaging) and his depiction of the fears that bees inflict upon him, are just some of the bits that really make this one of his best books.
Dave Barry is the master of humor synthesis. And in "...from Venus and Mars" he demonstrates it again and again. He also goes back to the typical use of hyperboles (the closing of an article re-taking a priorly referred subject) and also is great again on his "mind" and "I.Q." level comparisons.
His keen (real keen) sense of observation it's poured easily and with grace on these pages. You cannot avoid laughter. But it's a laughter with a sense of "familiarity": I'm laughing at this, yes. But, oh, my gosh, this is also SO TRUE!.
If you don't know the works of Dave Barry you are just missing the works of (as the New York Times once put it) "the funniest man alive". Read this book. It's a great start for a great addiction. And, in the end, you'll be experiencing the same consequence than me: mainly, the need to have, read. and re-read ALL of his books.
By the way, a piece of advice on the picture that appears on page 143. The person shown on the left IS Stephen King, and it's not a fake picture. The caption in this picture is funny, as the rest of the captions in the other black and white Dave's pictures that appear randomly thru the book. It's great to see a younger Dave Barry (and to see even a photograph of his Catholic Confirmation certificate) to feel closer to the life and circumstances of one of the finest humor brains ever: the brain of the author of "...from venus AND Mars", Mr. Dave Barry.
Believe me. It's impossible (absolutely IMPOSSIBLE) not to laugh reading him! Get this book and ...enjoy!
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Title: Dave Barry's Complete Guide to Guys by Dave Barry ISBN: 0345440633 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 05 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need by Dave Barry ISBN: 0345431138 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 1999 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Dave Barry's Greatest Hits by Dave Barry ISBN: 0345419995 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 1997 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Dave Barry's Homes and Other Black Holes by Dave Barry ISBN: 0345394402 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 1995 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Dave Barry's Bad Habits a 100% Fact-Free Book by Dave Barry ISBN: 0805029648 Publisher: Henry Holt (Paper) Pub. Date: 1993 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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