Dave Barry Talks Back - SFBA Book Club

Paperback, 285 pages

English language

Published Dec. 24, 1991 by Crown Trade Paperbacks.

ISBN:: 978-0-517-58868-0
OCLC Number:: 26136018

(1 review)

When Dave Barry writes funny, you write back. And when you write funny. Dave Barry talks back! Besides being a best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize—winning writer, Dave Barry gets more reaction from readers like you than any other columnist in the United States. Whether he's soliciting your suggestions for cutting the federal deficit ("rent the Stealth bomber out for proms"), heading up the reader-inspired Exploding Animal Institute, or conducting the Official National Insect Bug-off, Dave Barry talks back!

And now the absolute best of Dave Barry is available in paperback. complete with those items sent in by people like you—Dave's legion of Alert Readers all across the country who have escaped their ward atten- dants long enough to warn Dave of the dangers of exploding cows. toilets, snails, whales, human stomachs, and politicians.

Dave Barry is not just the funniest writer in America. he's the most interactive. Complete with a …

When Dave Barry writes funny, you write back. And when you write funny. Dave Barry talks back! Besides being a best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize—winning writer, Dave Barry gets more reaction from readers like you than any other columnist in the United States. Whether he's soliciting your suggestions for cutting the federal deficit ("rent the Stealth bomber out for proms"), heading up the reader-inspired Exploding Animal Institute, or conducting the Official National Insect Bug-off, Dave Barry talks back!

And now the absolute best of Dave Barry is available in paperback. complete with those items sent in by people like you—Dave's legion of Alert Readers all across the country who have escaped their ward atten- dants long enough to warn Dave of the dangers of exploding cows. toilets, snails, whales, human stomachs, and politicians.

Dave Barry is not just the funniest writer in America. he's the most interactive. Complete with a new introduction. notes on the columns that his readers have liked best, and illustrated by famed cartoonist Jeff MacNelly of "Shoe" fame, Dave Barry Talks Back is a very funny, quintessen- tially Barry book that talks back to everybody, including your mom.

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5 stars

(Crossposted from my blog: daariga.wordpress.com/2015/12/07/dave-barry-talks-back/)

One of the gems that I discovered when I first started surfing the Internet was Dave Barry. Countless hours of my life have been spent reading the archives of his hilarious Florida articles written for the Miami Herald. Considering the amount of pure happiness (and tummy ache) his writing has given me, those were probably the most well-spent hours of my life. When I recently discovered that he has many books to his credit I had to get started on it!

Dave Barry Talks Back is a collection of 63 old articles, from before 1992. I was pleased to discover that I had not previously read any of these. They sample all the zaniness on this planet, ranging from relationships to family to pets to government to politics. Since these were written for a newspaper with a strict word limit, each of them …

(Crossposted from my blog: daariga.wordpress.com/2015/12/07/dave-barry-talks-back/)

One of the gems that I discovered when I first started surfing the Internet was Dave Barry. Countless hours of my life have been spent reading the archives of his hilarious Florida articles written for the Miami Herald. Considering the amount of pure happiness (and tummy ache) his writing has given me, those were probably the most well-spent hours of my life. When I recently discovered that he has many books to his credit I had to get started on it!

Dave Barry Talks Back is a collection of 63 old articles, from before 1992. I was pleased to discover that I had not previously read any of these. They sample all the zaniness on this planet, ranging from relationships to family to pets to government to politics. Since these were written for a newspaper with a strict word limit, each of them is just 3 pages long. You can get shots of the funnies all through the day by picking up this book!

Dave Barry is the real deal because the observations he makes about us are genuine. Something else clearly stood out: the world of 1980s was just as insane as our world today. The same ineptness and bungling by government departments, the same weaselly politicians and most importantly, the same crazy real-life events involving the common man that keep happening around the world!

Except for a couple of dull pieces at the beginning and at the end, it is hard to find fault in this collection. As an icing, each article has a pertinent cartoon, drawn by Jeff MacNelly, another of my favorites. Much like Calvin and Hobbes or Seinfeld, to me Dave Barry’s writings are epic. Beware of where you read this book cause you will not be able to control your snickering and giggling. This is a fantastic mood lifter from probably the funniest writer in USA.

Subjects

American wit and humor.
Newspapers -- Sections, columns, etc. -- Humor.