Dave Barry Is Not Taking This Sitting Down

Name: Dave Barry Is Not Taking This Sitting Down
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)
Author: Dave Barry
ISBN: 9781543611144

Author: Dave Barry

Narrator: Dick Hill

Unabridged: 6 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Published: 05/16/2017

Categories: Nonfiction, Humor

Synopsis

Following the bestselling success of Dave's novel, Big Trouble, here is a hilarious new collection of columns from the writer critics have called "the funniest man in America."What's been getting Dave Barry all worked up lately? What can possibly induce him to rise up—yes, actually out of his chair—in indignation? Well, lots of things. For instance…The plague of low-flow toilets
Day trading and other careers that never require you to take off your bathrobe
The parent-misery quotient of school science fairs
Pine-sap transfusions for tired Christmas trees
The real skinny on the IRS, Donald Trump, the airlines, and so much more.…

About Dave Barry

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by James on January 14, 2013

A collection of columns. I injured my throat laughing at one of them, so I don't know if I should recommend it or not. [F]or a moment I was afraid that they were just regular beans, and that I was being ripped off. Then I thought: What kind of world is this when you worry that people might be ripping......more

Goodreads review by C. Adam on July 04, 2012

Since Dave Barry is best in column-sized doses, collections of his columns like this one make excellent bathroom reading. Admittedly, it's possible I'm being subconsciously influenced by the cover.......more

Goodreads review by Derrick on January 26, 2013

Humor columnist Dave Barry doing what Dave Barry does. He was one of my favorite writers when I was in high school, and this is a great collection of his essays.......more

Goodreads review by Eric on November 14, 2008

Dave Barry is so good at what he does that I found it frustrating to laugh so hard and then fail so miserably when trying to retell his stuff to my wife.......more

Goodreads review by Clive Hazell on March 27, 2020

A good laugh This is good funny stuff. It definitely cheers me up. He has a real gift for the amusing metaphor or hyperbole.......more