Live Right and Find Happiness (Although Beer is Much Faster): Life Lessons and Other Ravings from Dave Barry, (Paperback)

from mandersj73

Humorist Dave Barry offers us a series of random essays about his life and the "wisdom" he's accumulated over his 67 years. I didn't really know of Barry before I won this book via First Reads, but I have to say he had me laughing out loud a few times over the course of reading this book. I was p...

from DetailMuse

I always look forward to Dave Barry's end-of-year summaries and I've also enjoyed his book-length works (though haven't tried his fiction). This book is a very short collection (200+ pages with wide margins and lots of white space) of nine essays that reads very fast and is largely forgettable. I...

from sgrame

Life's lessons from the point of view of an American writer, who lived through high school as a nerdy kind of guy, his daughter learning to drive in Florida, his wife interviewing handsome sports figures, a trip to Russia and the circumcision of his grandson. Good humor acceptable for most all ad...

from TheLoopyLibrarian

While it may be a stretch to correlate the chapters of this book under it's given title, each was entertaining in its own right. It's fair to say (and Barry admitted as much in his presentation) that the title is more tongue in cheek than definitive. Nevertheless, the book was laugh-out-loud funn...

from bness2

Comtaims some hilarious stuff, as usual, but I also enjoyed the semi-serious material about his goodwill trip to Russia.