false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171665653m/113014.jpg 113014 3 "Many bad things happen when you turn 50. You can't see; you can't hear; you can read the entire <I>Oxford English Dictionary</I> in the time it takes you to go to the bathroom; and you keep meeting people <I>your own age</I> who look like Grandpa Walton (and those are the <I>women</I>)." Yep, Dave Barry is getting old, and the King of Humor may soon become the King Lear of Humor, but fear not, because Dave is <I>not</I> going quietly. <I>Dave Barry Turns 50</I> is Barry at his best, mainly because it succeeds in being more than simply a collection of his newspaper columns. He examines the development of the baby boomer, from youth in the '50s ("an age so innocent that there could be a TV show featuring a main character called 'The Beaver'") to maturity in the '70s ("We ... basked in the reflected glory of Woodward and Bernstein: we were inspired by them; we kept a sharp eye out for any hint of corruption in the way our local school board purchased clarinets for the marching band"), before providing a self-help guide for those entering their second half century.<p> Barry could squeeze laughs out of a prostate exam (eventually he may have to, although the cover of this book proudly states that he refuses to even <I>mention</I> the word <I>prostate</I>), and <I>Dave Barry Turns 50</I> provides him with ample opportunities to demonstrate the agile wit that has endeared him to millions of fans. Even in the final chapters, when he faces the inevitability of death, he manages to keep chuckling--after all, he is only 50, and this, he points out, "...is our glory time, this last decade or so before our powers decline and we start showing up for work with our pants on backwards." Let's hope that <I>we'll</I> be around for <I>Dave Barry Turns 90</I>. <I>--Simon Leake</I> 108817 1998 Dave Barry Turns 50 total:384|5:77|4:144|3:138|2:24|1:1| 384 1424 439 17 113014 0345431693 9780345431691 379 16 3.71 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171665653m/113014.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/113014.Dave_Barry_Turns_50 4 1 false Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1999 Mon Jul 07 16:15:48 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 28 10:40:35 -0700 2009 "#6. Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.
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Actually, unless you are about 60 years old, a lot of...more...]]> 113014 0345431693 9780345431691 379 16 3.71 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171665653m/113014.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/113014.Dave_Barry_Turns_50 3 0 false Thu May 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed May 27 21:12:50 -0700 2009 Wed May 27 21:16:27 -0700 2009 more...]]> 113014 0345431693 9780345431691 379 16 3.71 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171665653m/113014.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/113014.Dave_Barry_Turns_50 4 0 false Sun Jun 21 18:15:16 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 07 20:39:07 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 21 18:15:16 -0700 2009 Ok, not Dave's best, but there were some laugh outloud moments. It would be especially funny...more...]]> 113014 0345431693 9780345431691 379 16 3.71 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171665653m/113014.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/113014.Dave_Barry_Turns_50 4 0 false Tue Feb 24 18:38:45 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 24 18:40:25 -0800 2009 3603182 0375704183 9780375704185 1 1 3.71 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3603182.Dave_Barry_Turns_50 5 0 false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2000 Thu Jul 10 12:09:51 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 10 12:17:37 -0700 2008
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