false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171474939m/101021.jpg 101021 4 Dave runs American history through the wringer, and comes up with some wonderfully warped formulations. (The Vikings, for example, "were extremely rugged individuals whose idea of a fun time was to sail over and set fire to England, which in those days was fairly easy to ignite because it had a very high level of thatch, this being the kind of roof favored by the local tribespeople...") Covering pre-Columbian days through the dawn of the Bush administration, <B>Dave Barry Slept Here</B> is the funniest thing to hit this great nation since the Smoot-Hawley Tariff of 1930. 1243323 1989 Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States total:675|5:9|4:8|3:5|2:1|1:0| 675 2704 836 83 101021 0345416600 9780345416605 654 79 4.01 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171474939m/101021.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101021.Dave_Barry_Slept_Here_A_Sort_of_History_of_the_United_States 5 3 false Tue Oct 08 00:00:00 -0700 1991 Wed Oct 08 10:35:16 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 08 10:38:39 -0700 2008
"Something something about buffalo, or bison*, among the planes...





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Wi...more...]]> 101021 0345416600 9780345416605 654 79 4.01 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171474939m/101021.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101021.Dave_Barry_Slept_Here_A_Sort_of_History_of_the_United_States 4 0 false Thu Jan 15 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Sat Feb 21 05:29:45 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 21 05:30:24 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2251373 0449904628 9780449904626 7 2 4.01 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2251373.Dave_Barry_Slept_Here_A_Sort_of_History_of_the_United_States 4 0 false Wed Jul 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jan 31 06:27:50 -0800 2008 Sat Aug 01 04:32:50 -0700 2009 more...]]> 101021 0345416600 9780345416605 654 79 4.01 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171474939m/101021.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101021.Dave_Barry_Slept_Here_A_Sort_of_History_of_the_United_States 1 0 false Wed Sep 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 21 14:08:20 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 30 13:03:58 -0700 2009 ... for about ten or fifteen pages, then it got a little old. It took me about 60 pages to give up on it altogether. There's a reason that SNL skits don't last the whole hour Dave.

I understand Barry is a columnist of some sort so in small chunks his mate...more...]]> 101021 0345416600 9780345416605 654 79 4.01 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171474939m/101021.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101021.Dave_Barry_Slept_Here_A_Sort_of_History_of_the_United_States 5 0 false Fri Oct 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 16 14:14:09 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 16 14:16:23 -0700 2009 1 I'm serious, anyone who knows anything about Dave Barry knows he's funny, but this is still amazing!!
This is, of course, a history of the USA, but it's not like any textbook you will ever have. Dave Barry describes everything with brilliant wit and sarcasm.
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OK It is realy funny, but I have to wonder if some of the humor was induced because I read it piecemeal in the middle of the night. Not life changing, but a fun history review.]]> 101021 0345416600 9780345416605 654 79 4.01 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171474939m/101021.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101021.Dave_Barry_Slept_Here_A_Sort_of_History_of_the_United_States 3 0 false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 29 21:12:21 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 25 20:45:51 -0800 2008 more...]]> 101021 0345416600 9780345416605 654 79 4.01 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171474939m/101021.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101021.Dave_Barry_Slept_Here_A_Sort_of_History_of_the_United_States 5 0 false Sat Jan 17 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 13 06:02:35 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 17 18:24:58 -0800 2009 101021 0345416600 9780345416605 654 79 4.01 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171474939m/101021.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101021.Dave_Barry_Slept_Here_A_Sort_of_History_of_the_United_States 5 0 false Tue Jun 30 10:39:03 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 30 10:40:16 -0700 2009 101021 0345416600 9780345416605 654 79 4.01 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171474939m/101021.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101021.Dave_Barry_Slept_Here_A_Sort_of_History_of_the_United_States 5 0 false Thu May 07 22:09:43 -0700 2009 Thu May 07 22:13:24 -0700 2009 101021 0345416600 9780345416605 654 79 4.01 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171474939m/101021.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101021.Dave_Barry_Slept_Here_A_Sort_of_History_of_the_United_States 5 0 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002 Thu Jan 08 08:04:21 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 09 07:03:45 -0800 2009 8 101021 0345416600 9780345416605 654 79 4.01 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171474939m/101021.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101021.Dave_Barry_Slept_Here_A_Sort_of_History_of_the_United_States 4 0 false Wed Aug 26 14:37:23 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 26 14:38:01 -0700 2009 101021 0345416600 9780345416605 654 79 4.01 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171474939m/101021.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101021.Dave_Barry_Slept_Here_A_Sort_of_History_of_the_United_States 5 0 false Fri Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 1994 Fri Jul 31 11:26:16 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 31 11:31:25 -0700 2009 1254546 039456541X 9780394565415 11 1 4.01 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1254546.Dave_Barry_Slept_Here 4 0 false Wed Feb 25 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 12 05:35:10 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 27 07:10:58 -0800 2009 ...
And, I still did find this to be funny! Not every word out of Dave Barry's pen is comic gold like when I was younger, but definitely still entertaining.

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