"The Greatest Invention In The History Of Mankind Is Beer" And Other Manly Insights From Dave Barry [Hardcover]

Dave Barry (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 15, 2001

Everyone loves Dave Barry. His hilarious and irreverent syndicated newspaper column and numerous best-selling books incite universal laughter. In "The Greatest Invention In The History Of Mankind Is Beer" and Other Manly Insights From Dave Barry, Dave goes on a testosterone riff, enlightening all about the intricacies of being male.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 112 pages
• Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing; First Edition edition (March 15, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0740715259
• ISBN-13: 978-0740715259
• Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 5.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #199,294 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

The New York Times has pronounced Dave Barry "the funniest man in America." But of course that could have been on a slow news day when there wasn't much else fit to print. True, his bestselling collections of columns are legendary, but it is his wholly original books that reveal him as an American icon. Dave Barry Slept Here was his version of American history. Dave Barry Does Japan was a contribution to international peace and understanding from which Japan has not yet fully recovered. Dave Barry's Complete Guide to Guys is among the best-read volumes in rehab centers and prisons. Raised in a suburb of New York, educated in a suburb of Philadelphia, he lives now in a suburb of Miami. He is not, as he often puts it so poetically, making this up.

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23 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Dave Barry's "The Greatest Invention" is not that great, April 26, 2001

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Gordon L. Brumm (Lakewood, OH United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: "The Greatest Invention In The History Of Mankind Is Beer" And Other Manly Insights From Dave Barry (Hardcover)

This little book is a big disappointment. Most or all of Barry's other books are his column or column-length pieces, in which he piles one incongruity on another to hilarious effect. This book is merely a collection of cute paragraphs. Dave Barry is Dave Barry. He's not Henny Youngman.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars A Waste, February 13, 2009

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This review is from: "The Greatest Invention In The History Of Mankind Is Beer" And Other Manly Insights From Dave Barry (Hardcover)

There is nothing to this book. A sentence or two on each page. More like a booklet than a book.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Cute, amusing, not worth paying list price for., July 16, 2008

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James Yanni (Bellefontaine Neighbors, Mo. USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: "The Greatest Invention In The History Of Mankind Is Beer" And Other Manly Insights From Dave Barry (Hardcover)

But since it no longer seems to be available for list price, what the heck. It's worth a quick read if you can get it cheap. Not nearly as good as a full-length Dave Barry book, though.