

Tricky Business
Author: Dave Barry
Narrator: Dick Hill
Unabridged: 8 hr 11 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 05/16/2017
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction
Author: Dave Barry
Narrator: Dick Hill
Unabridged: 8 hr 11 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 05/16/2017
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction
Dave Barry has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for commentary. His columns for the Miami Herald were syndicated worldwide, and he is the author of a number of bestselling books, including the recently published Peter and the Starcatchers with Ridley Pearson. He lives in Miami, where he drives very nervously.
Dumb and Dumber meets the Mafia in a story that fails miserably where humor is concerned. Having laughed out loud through ALL of "Insane City", reading this was drudgery. Underwhelming is the best description I can provide. Here's the recipe: a sleazy business man buys a Miami casino ship that's a fr......more
Dave Barry’s 2002 novel “Tricky Business” is Carl Hiaasen as directed by Mel Brooks. How and why this was never made into a movie is beyond me. It has summer blockbuster comedy written all over it. I decided to cast this movie-that-was-never-made, so bear with me. (Also keep in mind that this movie w......more
It’s warped. It pokes outrageous fun at the stupidity in all of us—especially the ‘us’ who live in Florida (not me—those other people), and it uses adult language like I hear it used in the street all the time. It also has all the good stuff we like in a novel: murder, sex, drugs, violence, hijackin......more
ReedIII Quick Review: This book pokes fun at a wacky collection of characters. It is sweet, outrageous adult humor full of wit and satire. The crazy comical individual stories intertwine beautifully.......more
I love Dave Barry, both as a hillarious columnist and as a fiction writer. This book starts out very funny, formulaic but funny. Ok, it is a familair formula (similar to another Florida humorist Carl Hiassen, whom I also follow and enjoy): bad rich developers, bad drug dealers, washed out pothead ba......more