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

    Written by Dave Barry

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    An uproariously funny examination of what one generation can teach to another-or not-from the Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling author of You Can Date Boys When You're Forty and Insane City. During the course of living (mumble, mumble) years, Dave Barry has gained much wisdom* (*actual wisdom not guaranteed) and he is eager to pass it on-to the next generation, the generation after that, and to those idiots who make driving to the grocery store in Florida a death-defying experience. In brilliant, brand-new, never-before-published pieces, Dave passes on home truths to his new grandson and to his daughter, Sophie (who will be getting her learner's permit in 2015, the thought of which scares Dave silly). He explores the hometown of his youth, when all the men went to the city in suits and hats but still seemed to be having un-Mad Men-like fun, and how they turned into the neurotic hover-parents of today. He dives into everything from Google Glass (bottom line: "You feel like an idiot") to why men hate birthdays and anniversaries; from How to Speak Spanish to firsthand accounts of the soccer craziness of Brazil and the just-plain-crazy craziness of Putin's Russia, and a lot more besides. By the end, if you do not feel wiser, richer in knowledge, and more attuned to the universe.it wouldn't be surprising. But you'll have had a lot to laugh about!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateMar 3, 2015
    ISBN9781490656175
    Live Right and Find Happiness (Although Beer is Much Faster): Life Lessons and Other Ravings from Dave Barry
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    Dave Barry

    DAVE BARRY is a Pulitzer Prize-winning humor writer and bestselling author whose work has appeared in hundreds of newspapers.

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    • 4/5
      Another collection of essays by humorist Dave Barry. I've always enjoyed Barry's work, though I didn't find this one quite as laugh-out-loud funny as some of his earlier works. Still, I definitely chuckled several times. I think the essay about his trip to Russia was my favorite in this book.
    • 4/5
      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 adults.
    • 5/5
      Comtaims some hilarious stuff, as usual, but I also enjoyed the semi-serious material about his goodwill trip to Russia.
    • 4/5
      This latest collection of humorous essays by Dave Barry features, among other things, accounts of trips to Russia for a lecture tour and to Brazil for the World Cup, a review of Google Glass, and open letters to his daughter (who is about to get her learner's permit) and his infant grandson. That last one really rather touching, as well as amusing, and contains some genuine good advice.Some of these pieces are funnier than others, and I wouldn't call this his best-ever collection, but overall, Dave Barry's still got it. You'd think I might be tired of his goofy, slightly gimmicky writing style by now, but apparently that's never going to happen. Even he, however, is never going to convince me that I should be interested in soccer.
    • 3/5
      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 pleasantly surprised and would definitely pick up his other writings in anticipation of some quick reads and laughs.
    • 4/5
      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 funny with witty observations, hyperbole, sarcasm, and Barry’s trademark self-deprecating humor. Even activities that most of us will never experience such as meeting David Beckham or traveling to Russia become personal and all too human with Barry’s ability to relate them to every man. Sometimes Barry is even poignant in the midst of being zany. I recommend Live Right and Find Happiness as I do any Dave Barry book. He is consistently observant, funny, topical and relevant. Always a joy to read.
    • 3/5
      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 most enjoyed four of the essays:-- two of which felt like classic Dave Barry (one a comparison of his (below?)-average looks with (above!)-average men (specifically, David Beckham) that made me laugh out loud; the other about the frustrations of home ownership that actually spurred me to complete a repair I'd been putting off); and-- two longer essays on non-US cultures that felt noticeably deeper (one on his World Cup soccer experience in Brazil, which is fun prep for next year's Olympics there; the other a sort of cold-war-reminiscent writer's tour to Russia).Serious Dave Barry fans will splurge on this book, but I'd borrow it from the library and (like Dave himself might) put the money toward a beverage-of-choice that would take longer to consume :)(Review based on an advance reading copy provided by the publisher.)