Book #72 of 2023: Swamp Story by Dave Barry This comic novel fits squarely in the ‘zany Florida’ genre popularized by writers like Carl Hiaasen, Tim Dorsey, or indeed, author Dave Barry himself. If you like such stories of madcap plots colliding against a backdrop of alligators, rednecks, treasure hunters, corrupt politicians, and other Sunshine …
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Book Review: Best. State. Ever.: A Florida Man Defends His Homeland by Dave Barry
Book #23 of 2021: Best. State. Ever.: A Florida Man Defends His Homeland by Dave Barry Humorist Dave Barry seems more hit-or-miss for me the older we each get, and this 2016 title has some definite issues with Baby Boomer sexism, transphobic implications, lazy jokes about Native American place names, and so on. But the …
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Book Review: I’ll Mature When I’m Dead: Dave Barry’s Amazing Tales of Adulthood by Dave Barry
Book #76 of 2019: I’ll Mature When I’m Dead: Dave Barry’s Amazing Tales of Adulthood by Dave Barry Is Dave Barry’s new(er) material objectively less funny than what I read of his while growing up? Have my own tastes changed? Is our current cultural moment just vastly different than when this book was written in …
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