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Boogers Are My Beat Boogers Are My Beat Boogers Are My Beat
by
Dave Barry
The New York Times calls him "the funniest man in America," and his legions of fans agree, laughing and snorting as they put his books on bestseller lists nationwide.
InBoogers Are My Beat, Dave gives us the real scoop on:
- The scientific search for the world's funniest joke (you can bet it includes the word"weasel")
- RV camping in the Wal-Mart parking lot
- Outwitting "sm...more
InBoogers Are My Beat, Dave gives us the real scoop on:
- The scientific search for the world's funniest joke (you can bet it includes the word"weasel")
- RV camping in the Wal-Mart parking lot
- Outwitting "sm...more
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Published
September 23rd 2003
by Crown Publishing Group (NY)
(first published May 27th 2003)
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Dave Barry is one of the few authors who can consistently make me laugh out loud, even when I'd rather not (as when I'm reading in a public place-the looks some people give you when you laugh out loud while reading a book, it's as if the very idea of the written word being that funny is inconceivable). As a political junkie, I especially enjoyed the columns concerning the 2000 elections, but there wasn't a bad one in the bunch. To echo what others have said, I found the final column in the coll...more
Here is my review in my Spanish Blog: http://bit.ly/OO5X0S
Journalist Dave Barry discusses matters just as the winter Olympics the cold weather at the cities of Dakota; and the way Florida people use euphemisms to make cockroaches look cool; just by re baptizing them Palm Bugs. I laughed a lot with this book; but also cried a little because the author decided to close it by including to very serious and heartbreaking columns about his impressions on 9/11. He described how Gettysburg has been conv...more
Journalist Dave Barry discusses matters just as the winter Olympics the cold weather at the cities of Dakota; and the way Florida people use euphemisms to make cockroaches look cool; just by re baptizing them Palm Bugs. I laughed a lot with this book; but also cried a little because the author decided to close it by including to very serious and heartbreaking columns about his impressions on 9/11. He described how Gettysburg has been conv...more
It's been a long time since I read a Dave Barry book. I read a bunch in the early 90s (note to self: add those books here when you get a chance) when I was an adolescent. I thought he was hilarious. I still think he's hilarious but maybe not quite as hilarious as I remember from when I was a kid. This collection is a bit dated, the columns on the 2000 election and the conventions were likely funnier at the time. But I love the columns on random stuff that baffles him (and the rest of us, too). I...more
An above average compilation of Dave Barry's Miami Herald humor columns. I write this review only to strongly advise against hearing the book via audio. I concur with Lynn Lusson Magil's review; the narrator, Dick Hill, severely messed up his delivery of Dave Barry's style of humor - reliant on puns at the end of a sentence that aren't conducive to Hill's one-trick staccato pronunciation of them. Read the book instead.
Begins with daily columns he wrote about the 2000 political conventions and the 2002 Winter Olympics, follows with some regular columns and ends with two serious pieces about 9/11. Some of his shtick has worn thin, at least with me, but there's funny stuff, such as his visit to North Dakota, where a sewer lift station was named in his honor.
Feb 05, 2013
Scott Wright
rated it
5 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Shelves:
2013,
re-read-later
This was often laugh out loud funny. It's satire and at times heart felt. Weasals chomping on my privates to a beautiful essay on the horrific events in September of 2001. I would reccomend this to people that aren't looking for a story, but want some funny moments in history. Some are dated because...well they are dated.
I recently read Barry's "Dave Barry Slept Here," and I really enjoyed it, but I liked this so much better. "Boogers are My Beat" is a collection of his collumns, and I must say that I enjoy reading his collumns better than his other works.
As I read, I laughed out loud several times, and it made me happy to see some of his collumns which I remember having read in the newspaper.
Dave Barry pretty much cracks me up.
As I read, I laughed out loud several times, and it made me happy to see some of his collumns which I remember having read in the newspaper.
Dave Barry pretty much cracks me up.
I love listening to Dave Barry on tape. He is lots of fun, but I would probably use my reading time for another genre of books. Anyway, he is so funny discussing feng shui, home repair, taxes, "smart" appliances, and the 2000 presidential election. He also had serious thoughts on the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
I enjoy the works of Dave Barry, and Boogers are My Beat is a nice collection of his columns from the first half of the decade, starting with the 2000 Presidential Elections and moving on to some pretty sad topics to end it all.
A good quick read for people who like disjointed humor columns.
A good quick read for people who like disjointed humor columns.
The book includes Dave Barry's reports from the 2002 Winter Olympics, meaning his take on Salt Lake City and the Mormons. It also includes two excellent, serious essays, one written after 9/11 and one written for the one-year anniversary of 9/11.
I'm not ashamed to own that I've loved this guy since I was a teenager. Okay, maybe I am just a little. But who can resist a book that makes them laugh aloud every few minutes and insist on reading passages to busy and slightly annoyed spouses?
I'd heard that Dave Barry was funny, but this is the first time I've read one of his collections.
Can't write more now. Off to buy all the others....
(And the two serious pieces at the end, on 9/11, were worth the whole book price on their own.)
Can't write more now. Off to buy all the others....
(And the two serious pieces at the end, on 9/11, were worth the whole book price on their own.)
A great read. A few of the assembled articles in this book were serious. Most were funny and full of Dave's classic wit. A glorious few were hilarious and will make you spew milk out of your nose. You have been warned.
I actually listened to this book on tape. There were some good funny parts, especially the ones about his 3 year old daughter. The parts about North Dakota were funny at first but got a bit repetitive.
Some really funny stuff. Some great stuff even. And some stuff that was not so funny. I was surprised about his 9.11 essays and thought they were good. It's the only serious stuff I know of him writing.
I most enjoyed the last two articles, which are serious in tone and deal with the terrorist attacks of 9/11. They are a touching link to what I saw and who I felt and what I thought that day.
This is the second Dave Barry book that I've tried to read, and later abandoned. Part of the problem is that these jokes are dated. Still, I'm not going to bother reading another.
this was the best Dave Barry book I read in a really long time, if ever. I found myself laughing out loud throughout this book – really cool things like the mountain of garbage and all the other great essays that were so funny. I love Dave Barry's humor most of the time, and this was him at his best. He also had two articles about 9/11 that were very moving and brought tears to my eyes. The book made me laugh and cry.
holy moly! this is a big one! i found this at the bottom of the sea and was at the clouds when i was finished! the clowns are more splitting that the pages though...
I was not a huge fan of this book. At times, I had difficulty deciphering between facts and jokes. Maybe I should read the newspaper more often. Additionally, this book is slightly outdated.
Okay I know, not exactly quality literature but I love Dave Barry's humor. This wasn't one of my favorites but it was still good for a few laughs.
This was my introduction to Dave Barry...I laughed so hard I snorted at times, then immediately went out and bought many more of his books!
Very funny book. He closes with two very thought provoking and serious essays on the 9/11 tragedy that are so lovely that every American should read them.
Laugh out loud hilarious. My teenage son would follow me around the house reading it outloud to me so we could laugh together.
Dave Barry always gets me laughing out loud. There's not a bad one in the book and his essays on 9/11 and flight 23 are fantastically good.
A must-read if you are already a fan, and if you missed some of his columns in the Miami Herald.
Apr 06, 2013
Alexandria
rated it
3 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Shelves:
adult,
non-fiction
3.5 stars. In addition to his funny articles, there are also two beautiful essays written about September 11th.
You just can't beat Dave Barry for laugh-out-loud good reading!
Classic Barry, even with two serious and poignant columns about 9/11
Dave Barry is my go-to guy for some mood lifting. He makes me laugh out loud.
I especially liked the chapter about Humvees.
I especially liked the chapter about Humvees.
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Dave Barry is a humor columnist. For 25 years he was a syndicated columnist whose work appeared in more than 500 newspapers in the United States and abroad. In 1988 he won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary. Many people are still trying to figure out how this happened.
Dave has also written a total of 30 books, although virtually none of them contain useful information. Two of his books were used as...more
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“I love the Olympics, because they enable people from all over the world to come together and--regardless of their political or cultural differences--accuse each other of cheating.”
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