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

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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.

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

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.

The book is worth reading. Many of the observations are Dave Barry insightful. Then there are some fillers.

The problem is that most of Dave's best works requires you to go from the perfectly obvious to the unbelievable and believe it. This takes time and skill. This is what the book lacks.

I read this book after reading another of Dave Berry's hoping it would be better. Well, it was not. For one thing, it is very short and only one passage per page. This is the same as some of his others. I would only remcomend it to someone with nothing else to do.

For a more indepth review, see my other Dave Berry review, the books are very similar, so are my thought on his two books.

Have a good one.

Ryan