false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179252822m/893731.jpg 893731 18 Dave Barry, the only newsman to win a Pulitzer for exemplary use of words like <I>booger</I>, will please humor and crime-fiction fans alike with this racy debut novel. The scene is Miami. In ritzy Coconut Grove, the teen son of Eliot, a newsman turned adman, sneaks up to spritz a cute girl with a Squirtmaster 9000 to win a high school game called Killer. Meanwhile, two hit men sneak up to kill the girl's abusive stepdad, Arthur. Arthur cheated his bosses at corrupt Penultimate, Inc., which equipped a Florida jail with automatic garage-opener gates that accidentally freed prisoners in a lightning storm. <p> Farcical confusion ensues, witnessed by a saintly bum named Puggy, camped in a tree in Arthur's yard. Puggy works at the Jolly Jackal Bar & Grill, which has no grill and actually sells guns and bombs to an offshoot of the Crips and Bloods called the Cruds, and to Penultimate (which plans to conquer Cuba). But when dim thugs Eddie and Snake rob the Jolly Jackal and Arthur tells them it's a Russian mob front selling bombs, the proprietor snorts, "<I>Bombs, pfft!</I> No bombs! Is bar."<p> Can Snake and Eddie spirit a suitcase nuke through Miami, "where most motorists obeyed the traffic and customs of their individual countries of origin"? Can Eliot and cop Monica Rodriguez save the day? And how do the 300-pound hallucinogenic Enemy Toad, the 13-foot-long python Daphne, highway goats, and the Denture Adventure seniors' theme park fit in? Everything fits perfectly, including a few dark passages new to Barry's work. But one warning: if you read this book while drinking milk, at some point it will spurt out of your nostrils. <I>--Tim Appelo</I> 1807862 1999 Big Trouble total:1441|5:314|4:506|3:416|2:168|1:37| 1441 5215 1721 196 893731 0425178102 9780425178102 1321 177 3.62 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179252822m/893731.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/893731.Big_Trouble 5 2 false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Nov 20 13:35:07 -0800 2007 Tue Nov 20 13:46:20 -0800 2007 more...]]> 126030 0425184129 9780425184127 46 8 3.62 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171908583m/126030.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/126030.Big_Trouble_Movie_Tie_In 4 1 false Wed Dec 20 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Thu Jan 31 06:27:29 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 09 05:42:47 -0800 2008
And yet it can. And it is. And it's awesome.

One of the major themes in Barry's newspaper column is that South Florida is insane. Things happen in Florida that...more...]]> 126030 0425184129 9780425184127 46 8 3.62 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171908583m/126030.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/126030.Big_Trouble_Movie_Tie_In 4 1 false Wed Mar 21 15:49:30 -0700 2007 Wed Mar 21 15:56:51 -0700 2007 more...]]> 893731 0425178102 9780425178102 1321 177 3.62 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179252822m/893731.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/893731.Big_Trouble 4 1 false Thu Oct 03 00:00:00 -0700 2002 Tue Feb 17 20:56:56 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 17 21:11:34 -0800 2009 Tetris; but guess what, I have the worst case of jet lag I have ever had.

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Let me just start by saying that I love anything Dave Barry writes. Ever since I read one of his humor columns in the Chicago Tribune when I was 16 and laughed until I peed myself, he has been my hero. Since then I have largely mimicked h...more...]]> 893731 0425178102 9780425178102 1321 177 3.62 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179252822m/893731.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/893731.Big_Trouble 3 0 false Fri Jul 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 25 00:45:10 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 31 16:02:20 -0700 2009
So much of the screenplay was pul...more...]]> 893731 0425178102 9780425178102 1321 177 3.62 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179252822m/893731.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/893731.Big_Trouble 5 1 false Sat Oct 13 11:35:44 -0700 2007 Sat Oct 13 11:39:47 -0700 2007 more...]]> 893731 0425178102 9780425178102 1321 177 3.62 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179252822m/893731.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/893731.Big_Trouble 4 0 false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2001 Thu Jul 02 12:13:05 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 02 12:44:57 -0700 2009 everything. Forget what you saw and just focus on the scenes laid out in the story (which are so, so much funnier and more interesting than what Hollywood offered up). I must admit to being a fan of ...more...]]> 893731 0425178102 9780425178102 1321 177 3.62 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179252822m/893731.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/893731.Big_Trouble 4 0 false Sat Dec 27 11:33:40 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 27 11:34:36 -0800 2008 more...]]> 893731 0425178102 9780425178102 1321 177 3.62 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179252822m/893731.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/893731.Big_Trouble 5 0 false Sun Jun 21 22:26:28 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 21 22:30:35 -0700 2009 more...]]> 893731 0425178102 9780425178102 1321 177 3.62 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179252822m/893731.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/893731.Big_Trouble 4 1 false Thu Jul 26 10:58:35 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 26 11:00:26 -0700 2007 893731 0425178102 9780425178102 1321 177 3.62 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179252822m/893731.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/893731.Big_Trouble 4 0 false Mon Jul 07 08:45:38 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 29 19:01:25 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 07 08:45:38 -0700 2008
I didn’t find it hilarious but it was a fun novel with slapstick-like situations. I would consider it a crime novel but it isn’t hard-boiled or anything like that. I guess it’s sort of like a light Elmore Leonard or a fast-paced Carl Hiaasen nove...more...]]> 1135284 0399145672 9780399145674 60 9 3.62 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223631079m/1135284.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1135284.Big_Trouble 4 0 false Sun Jun 29 11:37:40 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 22 14:00:35 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1135284 0399145672 9780399145674 60 9 3.62 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223631079m/1135284.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1135284.Big_Trouble 5 0 false Wed Jun 18 18:02:44 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 18 18:02:50 -0700 2008 more...]]> 893731 0425178102 9780425178102 1321 177 3.62 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179252822m/893731.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/893731.Big_Trouble 5 0 false Sun Dec 28 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 07 11:51:37 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 07 11:55:35 -0800 2009 more...]]> 893731 0425178102 9780425178102 1321 177 3.62 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179252822m/893731.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/893731.Big_Trouble 3 0 false Sat Apr 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 29 14:32:31 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 29 14:37:55 -0700 2009 more...]]> 126030 0425184129 9780425184127 46 8 3.62 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171908583m/126030.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/126030.Big_Trouble_Movie_Tie_In 4 0 false Wed Dec 31 21:03:04 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 31 21:15:29 -0800 2008 more...]]> 893731 0425178102 9780425178102 1321 177 3.62 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179252822m/893731.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/893731.Big_Trouble 3 0 false Fri Dec 26 12:48:21 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 26 12:49:56 -0800 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=893731