Insane City

from MaureenCean

I won this through First Reads, I was surprised and pleased to come across it. Usually I listen to Dave Barry on cd - if you are going to laugh out loud, it's easier to be in your car alone. And I did laugh out loud reading this one too. A very clever, very funny story, that moves right along and...

from muddyboy

I am sure that most Dave Barry fans will just love this book but it was all a little too much for me. There were just way too many zany complications and addled confusions that I wanted to scream "uncle" by the end. The book is based totally on Murphy's Law. It involves the days leading up to the...

from Unreachableshelf

Dave Barry produces another absurd, hillarious, action-packed triller. I'd rank it it above Tricky Business, his previous solo novel, as the plot threads come together very early in the book and it feels much more cohesive. I'm not sure it's quite as good as Big Trouble, but it could just be that...

from Rosa.Mill

When I picked up the book I thought it was going to be one of Dave Barry's nonfiction books and was caught a little off guard by what was clearly fiction. That being said while it came across as kind of dumb at first it was actually very funny. Some of the end results relationship wise were predi...

from Rosa.Mill

When I picked up the book I thought it was going to be one of Dave Barry's nonfiction books and was caught a little off guard by what was clearly fiction. That being said while it came across as kind of dumb at first it was actually very funny. Some of the end results relationship wise were predi...