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djinn_n_juice's review
4.0
This Dave Barry book, titled "Dave Barry Turns 40," was quite funny. I very much enjoyed the booger joke on page 37. Numerous parts, including that part about breakfast cereal, were especially funny! I laughed aloud! Haha!
At the end of the book I was left with the sense that, although I'd just been entertained for an hour and a half, that I'd basically been doing the literary equivalent of shoving peeps up my nose. Peeps the candy, not the slang word for acquaintances.
Dave Barry is exactly as funny here as he was in Dave Barry Turns 40, which means quite a riot! Haha!
You're right, I haven't read this one since I was about 15. How did you know?
At the end of the book I was left with the sense that, although I'd just been entertained for an hour and a half, that I'd basically been doing the literary equivalent of shoving peeps up my nose. Peeps the candy, not the slang word for acquaintances.
Dave Barry is exactly as funny here as he was in Dave Barry Turns 40, which means quite a riot! Haha!
You're right, I haven't read this one since I was about 15. How did you know?
elevetha's review
2.0
I may be 15 but most of the humor is not lost on me, though it's not as applicable to me as it would be to someone older, say my dad.
That being said, it was one of Barry's sub-par collections.
That being said, it was one of Barry's sub-par collections.
katherineep's review
3.0
A little dated but still funny. Dave Barry has a wonderful gift for recognizing the absurd. The chapter on parenting and children's sports was the best and so true!
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