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Dave Barry Bad Habits A 100% FactFree Book Dave Barry Books

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Dave Barry Bad Habits A 100% FactFree Book Dave Barry Books

This is a lengthy collection of some very early Barry columns, when Dave was still residing in Pennsylvania. Not surprisingly, they all hold up well over the passage of time. If you are in the market to buy one Dave Barry book that is not one of his novels, I would heartily recommend this one.


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Dave Barry Bad Habits A 100% FactFree Book Dave Barry Books Reviews

If this book does not bring a smile to the reader, I will hand over a promissory note of nineteen quad-glop-a zillion.

Notice I did not specify in what. Could be in lime-green, bug-eyed clams, or could be in three-legged chairs.
By small coincidence this is also the number of lethal microbes in a tub of outdated chicken salad left on the kitchen counter for a week and a half. In July. With no air conditioning.

At any rate, open to any one of the 290 pages and you will get a chuckle, a chortle. Maybe even a bag of BBQ chips. Well, probably not the chips.

Dave Barry's collection of essays from the 1980's is a mirthful literary tap-dance of thoughts and insight from every angle of life as we know it (or possibly thought we knew). Government absurdities, the sports world, growing up, vacations, health habits, doctors, education, it's all here.

This book will make your day brighter. If laughter is the best medicine, then everyone on the planet should have a copy. But then again, doctors would have to find another occupation.
I put this one down on my Christmas list as I was looking for humor and odd fact sort of books. Prior to reading Bad Habits, I'd never heard of Dave Barry but was definitely intrigued by the "100% fact-free book" quote and it peaked my interest.

Barry looks at a plethora of issues that faced America in the 1980's and pokes fun at the Reagan Administration, the economy, government jobs, taxes, health habits, pop culture, the solution for kids to stop smoking (skip the 10th grade of course), attempts to communicate with alien life, family vacations/traveling, and of course no book is complete without commentary on our sports. Among my favorites is easily the air traffic controller dialogue D

Pilot This is Flight 274, requesting landing instructions
Controller Well, if it was me, I would put the wheels down first, but don't quote me on that.
Pilot No, I already know how to land, I was hoping you could tell me which runway I should land on.
Controller Ah. Let me just turn on the little screen here and -- There we are. Say, is that you about to plow into the mountain?
Pilot No.
Controller Oh. That must be one of Bob's. (Yelling to another controller) Bob, could you turn your screen on for a second? One of your planes is about to -- Wait, forget it.
Pilot Um, look, we're running out of fuel here, so I'd really appreciate if you could possibly --
Controller Hey, lighten up, will you? Do you want to make me tense and crazy so Reagen can fire me? (Yelling to other controllers.) Hey guys! I think I got a Republican here! (Laughter in background, shouts of "Steer him into the mountain!")
Pilot Look please --
Controller Hey, no sweat. We're just having some fun. I'll get back to you with a runway right after my break.
Pilot But -- , Controller (Click.)

Equally as interesting is Barry's synposis of popular classics and poems. Such as Moby Dick's central theme, "Don't mess around with large whales, because they symbolize nature and will kill you", as well as A Tale of Two Cities with "French people are crazy". I give this book four stars though because some of the parts were just too corny. Kind of I guess pg-13 humor and with my warped sense of humor, I want something a little more adult/darker I suppose ).

All in all, not a bad book and seeing as how a lot of Barry's books on here are fairly cheap, I'll definitely be looking to pick up a few more in the near future.

-Travis
My brother gave me a copy of "Bad Habits" some time ago, and I started reading it before I fell asleep each night, but almost every time I cracked the book open I'd start reading and then laughing...as much to myself as possible, because my wife was trying to sleep. But I'd laugh, the bed would shake and she'd roll over and ask "What in the world is going on!?" It's Dave Barry. Being an adult she'd roll her eyes at me, tell me to cut it out, and then ask me to turn off the reading light and go to sleep.

So I had to finish the rest of the book in the light of day...and sure enough, Barry made me laugh out loud again and again, sometimes making me laugh so hard I'd cry so hard that I couldn't see the page.

My wife was a good sport though, and paid me the courtesy of putting down the newspaper again and again while I read her particularly good bits...after which she would roll her eyes again (but I think she secretly loved it) and went back to the newspaper.

Make sure that when you read it you have a willing sounding board, someone who will humor you as you humor them.

Anyway, Dave Barry is a master of boiling down important issues into understandable drivel that anyone would benefit from reading...well, it won't help you understand the issues any better, but it will make you feel a LOT better about not understanding them.

5 stars!
I didn't like this book at all. I got to page 32 and laughed only twice. I guess I don't get his humor.
As good as any of Dave Barry's works. My brother kept giving me dirty looks while I was reading this because I kept laughing out loud.
I hardly think Dave Barry needs yet another "He rocks!" review. It's fairly clear that Dave Barry is the wittiest writer to come along in a generation (if not longer). However, will stalk me until I write this review so here it is - This book is hysterical. It's vintage Barry and a wonderful collection to have laying about the house for when you need a "hit" of Dave. I highly recommend it.
True Dave Barry! If you are a fan of Barry's add this book to your collection. If you have never read Dave Barry this is a good place to start. Dave Barry helps me see humor in a world that is often way to depressing.
This is a lengthy collection of some very early Barry columns, when Dave was still residing in Pennsylvania. Not surprisingly, they all hold up well over the passage of time. If you are in the market to buy one Dave Barry book that is not one of his novels, I would heartily recommend this one.