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Title: Dave Barry Hits Below the Beltway by Dave Barry, Dick Hill ISBN: 1-58788-846-7 Publisher: Brilliance Audio Pub. Date: 02 October, 2001 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 4 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.05 (19 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Hysterical
Comment: As a loyal reader of Dave Barry's column in The Miami Herald, I am familiar with Dave's humor and how he examines things and makes these things seem like the funniest thing in the world. This was actually my first non fiction book by Dave, and in this book he continues with the same comedy that can be found in his columns.
"Dave Barry Hits Below the Beltway" is a book about the American government and includes things on American history and comes all the way to today's politics. The first chapter is about the origins of government, and starts with the cavemen and continues to people like the Romans and Greeks. In this chapter Barry shows how government originated by introducing some very funny concepts. Chapter two is about the United States of America being born and includes things on colonial life. In this chapter you read the Constitution according to Dave, which is hilarious. Next, in chapter three, Dave Barry describes today's government and talks about the departments that make up the government. His views on the United States departments are very funny. Chapter four gives a tour of the U.S. Capital, Washington, D.C. This is one of the funniest parts of the book. The fifth chapter describes the presidential election process. Chapter six is a funny chapter that shows what a political campaign is like by showing how the candidates trash one another and how elections can be corrupt. Chapters seven and eight tell about the year 2000 election and then go into telling about South Florida. The parts about South Florida were especially funny since I read about how corrupt the area that I live in is.
As the title suggests, Dave Barry hits below the beltway with his humor. It is great to read about how he views the United States government and then giving ideas that may be rational to him on everything. Dave Barry's opinions on America's politicians and lawyers are funny as he informs you in a funny way about how corrupt they are. The last two chapters, which are mainly on South Florida, are hysterical as Barry tells what a corrupt area of the country this is. For people that have never been to South Florida what is stated here is exceptionally funny.
All of the jokes in the book, with the exception of the zucchini ones, will have you laughing. I will definitely will be reading more books by Dave Barry, who indeed is "the funniest man in America." For plenty of laughs in a fast read, this is the book to read.
Happy Reading!
Rating: 5
Summary: What happens when you mix a Libertarian and Satire?
Comment: What happens when you mix a true Libertarian with generous helpings of Satire? You get an extremely entertaining book that uses great wit to lampoon the anointed elite known as "our leaders". Dave Barry understands Government better than most of the politicians do and certainly better than the general public (most folks don't actually understand the line "I'm from the Government and I'm here to help" as being funny). The best part of this book is that although he uses satire, there is no exaggeration on his part regarding the inner workings of the Beltway. I'm glad that Dave Barry is a Libertarian and his sense of the absurd is fantastic. Nothing combats evil and pompous people better than humor. Groucho Marx made a career of it. Dave Barry takes it to the next level.
I was surprised that the last line of this book wasn't "I'm not making this up".
Enjoy the book; it's one of the best since P. J. O'Rourke's "Parliament of Whores".
Rating: 4
Summary: Dave Barry's take on politics and government
Comment: Dave Barry is one of the best humor writers in the world today. This book is his entry into the latest round of political/humor books that folks like Al Franken and Roger Moore have been putting out of late. Barry is more of a political moderate, where as Franken and Moore are liberals who in turn as responding to Right-Wingers like Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, and others.
Barry does make his moderate beliefs funny, which is something that writers normally find difficult to do. The left and right normally are able to be funny by making fun of the other side. Barry does it by mocking both, and neither at the same time.
However, his heart does not really appear to be in it. I think this book is some publisher's idea of a direction for Barry to go in, in order to ride the latest fashionable book wave and make a little money. Sure, the book is funny, but not as funny as you would normally expect from Dave Barry. Because of that the book is somewhat short, and has a lot of bad jokes... I didn't think all the zucchini jokes worked.
However, it is still Dave Barry here and the book is still better than most others written in this particular category.
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Title: Dave Barry Is Not Taking This Sitting Down by Dave Barry ISBN: 0345444094 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 30 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Boogers Are My Beat : More Lies, but Some Actual Journalism by DAVE BARRY ISBN: 1400047579 Publisher: Crown Pub. Date: 23 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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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: 01 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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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 Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States by Dave Barry ISBN: 0345416600 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 29 October, 1997 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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