Dave Barry Turns Forty

by Dave Barry

Book Overview

"Just the ticket for the '90s." SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE If you're too young for a nursing home yet too old to be a rock star, if your marriage is as exciting as scraping grass off the lawnmower blades, then this hilarious book by Pulitzer-Prize-winning columnist and author is for you. Put on your protective eyewear and take a probing look inside your increasingly Spam-like body at: The Midlife (Yawn) Marriage; Wise Financial Planning for Irresponsible Scum Such as Yourself; Sex After 40 (or, Sex? After 40?), and other harsh, but amusing realities that leave you laughing, crying and drooling.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 044990587X
• ISBN13: 9780449905876
• Release Date: May 1991
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Hilarious!

Easily the most enjyable Barry book I have read. Coincidentally, it was my first as well.Barry is a master at comedy, and this only proves it further.Highly recommended!

One of the best of Dave's many hysterically funny books.

Maybe it was just that I'm very nearly at the age Dave was when he wrote this book. Maybe it's just that my son is currently the same age that his son was then. Maybe the book just "spoke" to me. Maybe it just "resonated". Maybe I'm just rambling.But then again, maybe the book is just hysterically funny, and WAY, WAY, too true.In any case, it's definitely a must-read.

TOO FUNNY

having read a great number of dave barry books, emphasis on the word "great," i can assure you this is a rollicking good read. a word of note for the dave addicts out there who haven't read this book: it contains one of the saddest, most poignant passages dave's ever committed to paper. a must read, for that alone.

The First and Best Dave Barry book I read.

One could say I was having a Midlife Crisis when I read this book- but,then, I read it when I was nine, so that would put my life span at about 18. All right, I was a downright precocious child, but it sure did give me a few more reasons to laugh at my parents. I laughed, and cried. Laughed hysterically at all the jokes (even the ones I didn't get) and cried when my mother took the book away after I asked, "What's a sex life?".

Dave Barry is one of the the most gifted humorists today.

This book is no exception. His wit never fails to keep you rolling with laughter. My friends start to get mad at me when I laugh out loud on car trips. I own almost all of his books, and this is on of his best.