Dave Barry - Dave Barry Hits Below the Beltway

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. Barrys bulls-eye spoofs keep you chucklingexcept 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 Barrys high standards, Dave Barry turns political pundit, employing Dave Barrys firm grip on matters governmental as well as a lot of other foolishness. Theres some courtroom dialogue worthy of the Marx Brothers. Dave Barry Is Still At It. Laughing will only encourage himbut 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 forDave Barry Is Not Taking This Sitting Down!

One of Barrys 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 Americas favorite funny men.

The Arizona Republic

Always good for grins.

San Antonio Express-News

Praise forDave 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. Barrys 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 Americas 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 onyou remember that phrase, dont you?

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

With age comes wisdom, among other ailments. [Barrys] 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, theres no reason to take it with a straight face.

BookPage

Its 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. Its 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 youd better buy this book now while you can still read the print.

Library Journal

A bushel of chuckles for readers.

Booklist

Praise forDave Barry Is from Mars and Venus

These down-to-earth observations on topics as random as mens fashion, dogsledding, and reincarnation are a hoot.

People

The introduction on how the book got its title is worth the price alone. Youll 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, Youll laugh out loud. Lets just say, I did. Its Barry at his sympathetic best.

Arizona Daily Star

Vintage Dave Barry If youre 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 Barrys 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 forDave Barry IsNotMaking this Up

Hilarious Might be his best yet.

Associated Press

Truth may or may not be stranger than fiction, but in Dave Barrys 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 worlds fastest lawnmower.

The Gazette (Montreal)

He zaps the funny bone.

The Cincinnati Post

Barry is in top form.

Publishers Weekly

Praise forDave Barrys Only Travel Guide Youll 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 theres one thing you can count on from Dave Barry, its 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 crazinessfrom the introduction to the final page.

The Boston Globe

Have you ever had a vacation where you didnt lose the car keys or travelers 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 wouldnt understand whats so funny about Dave Barrys Only Travel Guide Youll Ever Need. The rest of us, however, would.

The Kansas City Star

For good old belly laughs and delightful play with clichs of the language, theres Dave Barrys Only Travel Guide Youll 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: Whats so funny? or For Gods sake, shut up.