Best. State. Ever., Dave Barry
Best. State. Ever., Dave Barry
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Best. State. Ever.
A Florida Man Defends His Homeland

Bestseller

Author: Dave Barry

Narrator: Dick Hill

Unabridged: 4 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 09/06/2016

Synopsis

A brilliantly funny exploration of the Sunshine State from the man who knows it best: Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling author Dave Barry. We never know what will happen next in Florida. We know only that, any minute now, something will. Every few months, Dave Barry gets a call from some media person wanting to know, "What the hell is wrong with Florida?" Somehow, the state's acquired an image as a subtropical festival of stupid, and as a loyal Floridian, Dave begs to differ. Sure, there was the 2000 election. And people seem to take their pants off for no good reason. And it has flying insects the size of LeBron James. But it is a great state, and Dave is going to tell you why. Join him as he celebrates Florida from Key West at the bottom to whatever it is that's at the top, from the Sunshine State's earliest history to the fun-fair of weirdness and gunfire ("Our motto: 'Come back! We weren't firing at you!'") that it is today. It's the most hilarious book yet from "the funniest damn writer in the whole country" (Carl Hiaasen, and he should know). By the end, you'll have to admit that whatever else you might think about Florida-you can never say it's boring.

About Dave Barry

Dave Barry is the author of more bestsellers than you can count on two hands, including Swamp Story, Lessons from Lucy, Dave Barry’s Complete Guide to Guys, Dave Barry Turns Forty, and Dave Barry Is Not Making This Up. A wildly popular syndicated columnist best known for his booger jokes, Barry won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for commentary. He lives in Miami.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jennifer on January 22, 2018

"So we have an apparent contradiction: On the one hand, the national consensus is that Florida is a stupid weird insane dysfunctional hellhole that is also – I forgot to mention this earlier – a hurricane zone that is soon going to be largely submerged when global climate change causes the s......more

Goodreads review by Cindy on September 05, 2016

4.5 stars Dave Barry is hilarious. In Best. State. Ever., he focuses his brilliant comedic mind on his home state of thirty years, Florida. In order to write this book, he travels around the state, sometimes alone and at other times with a friend, seeking out Florida’s most interesting locales. As th......more

Goodreads review by Jonathan on November 15, 2022

Having laughed through "Insane City" I'd hoped for a similar experience since the state of FL has been the butt of jokes for years. That plus the fact my best friend moved there years ago and for the life of me, I can't figure out why he remained..go figure. That said, with the exception of the Histo......more

Goodreads review by Monnie on July 14, 2016

From my days as a spring chicken to now, when I'm officially an old hen, one thing has been a constant: I love to laugh. And one person on whom I can count to make me yuck it up - whether via a syndicated newspaper column or one of his books - is Dave Barry. So when the publisher offered me the chan......more

Goodreads review by Craig on September 18, 2016

This may be the best non-fiction book Dave Barry has ever written. No, I am not making that up. And I'm not just saying it because I read it in two days. Barry, who won a Pulitzer for commentary back when he was a Miami Herald columnist, wrote this book to defend the state he's lived in for 30 years......more

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