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    You Can Date Boys When You're Forty: Dave Barry on Parenting and Other Topics He Knows Very Little About
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    You Can Date Boys When You're Forty: Dave Barry on Parenting and Other Topics He Knows Very Little About
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    You Can Date Boys When You're Forty: Dave Barry on Parenting and Other Topics He Knows Very Little About
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    You Can Date Boys When You're Forty: Dave Barry on Parenting and Other Topics He Knows Very Little About

    Published by Penguin Random House Audio

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    About this audiobook

    If there's one thing that New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Dave Barry is an expert on, it's raising a daughter.

    …which means he's not an expert on much considering the breadth of his knowledge on that subject fills only a single chapter of a book. However, what Dave Barry is good at is giving unsolicited advice on topics he's definitively not an expert on. In fact, he now has an entire book filled with guidance on things he knows nothing about, including: surviving in the wild, wooing women, cremation, maintaining a scintillating conversation, Justin Bieber, the U.S. Postal Service, enduring the TSA, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and, most obviously, being a professional author.

    With trademark wit and unmatched insight into the insanity of everyday life, Dave Barry presents a series of hilarious, never-before-published essays on the trials and tribulations of living and laughing in the modern age.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateMar 4, 2014
    ISBN9780698149977
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    You Can Date Boys When You're Forty: Dave Barry on Parenting and Other Topics He Knows Very Little About

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    • 2/5
      If it wasn't so short, it probably would have ended up on my dnf list.
    • 4/5
      This hilarious monologue by Dave Barry touches on a number of topics including parenting, airplanes, aging, Viagra, Fifty Shades of Gray, a family trip to Israel, how to become a published writer, and the necessary elements for plots in successful books. I listened to the audio version of this book, read by the author, and his narration was perfect.Evaluation: Even when Dave Barry is not being funny (and no one can be funny every single second), he never fails to be interesting and entertaining. And listening to the book gives you the added bonus of having everyone in the cars around you wondering what kind of weirdo laughs out loud to herself while in the car alone.
    • 4/5
      Don't let the title fool you; parenting is not the main focus of this book. In fact, there is no main focus. It's just a random collection of humorous essays, but, as Barry says in the introduction, the publisher for some reason wouldn't let him call it Dave Barry's Vague General Book of Humor Topics.As is always the case with Barry, it's funny stuff. OK, none of it left me in rolling on the floor unable to breathe through the laughter, but I was chuckling by the time I'd finished the first page of the introduction, and with satisfying regularity after that. Barry does rely a little too much on gender-stereotype-based humor, which I tend to find annoying in that it's-not-funny-because-it's-not-true kind of way. (At least, I never recognize myself or the men and women I know in comedians' caricatures.) But it says something impressive about Barry that he can make even humor that basically boils down to "Ha, ha, women like scented candles and men don't talk about their feelings!" funny to me. His "Grammar FAQ" is way, way funnier, though. Heck, that one's probably enough to make the book worthwhile all by itself.
    • 4/5
      Laugh out loud funny, and at times surprisingly bawdy. Readable and fun, a quick enjoyable look at modern life.
    • 3/5
      Yes, three stars is the max. Humor books, the best ones as "You Can Date..." is, are funny, very funny. Everything is funny. Funny, funny, funny. The jokes just keep coming, and coming, and coming......Until you just get numb. Has no one ever explained to these humorists that sometimes less is more? YCD is not my first humor book, but maybe it's my last. I've tried a number of books by authors that I see on TV all the time, the top-notch ones. Matter of fact what turned me on to this book was hearing author Barry interviewed on the Tony Kornheiser radio show. Now Mr. Tony is also a very witty, very funny guy, and that day they were both spot-on, trading one liners, feeding on each other, and promoting Barry's book. I decided to read it, paying no attention to the little angel on my shoulder who kept reminding me that I had read a number of Barry's essays in the Washington Post magazine and never thought they were all that funny. Oh, and it's not all about parenting a teen age girl either, that's only about 10-20 percent of the book. Actually, my favorite piece was a long one about a recent trip to Israel. Oh, and that reminds me, in that piece he really picked on his wife for shopping all the time, no matter where. Shop, shop, shop, shop, shop. Again the less is more thing. Do I not have a sense of humor you might be wondering? Let me recommend a funny book. Try "Where'd you go, Bernadette?" by Semple. It is not a joke book. It is a contemporary novel about a family living in Seattle in the shade of Microsoft. I laughed out loud at that one a number of times, something I never did for any humor book
    • 3/5
      The usual Dave Barry humor. Not much depth to it - there are a few insightful barbs, but they are few and far between.
    • 2/5
      When I was in High school I really like Dave Barry. So when I saw this audio book at the public library I decided I had to pick it up. One of two things is true, either my tastes have changed completely, or Dave Barry has gotten less funny over the years, I believe its the alter and probably why he doesn’t have a indicated column any more. This collection of short stories is supposed to show the humor found in the author's everday life. In fact is only highlights how boring the life of a 65 year old author who fathers a teenage girl is. You could tell he was trying to be funny, but that was it. The story about taking his daughter to a Justin Beiber concert was the only laugh I had in the whole book. Almost a whole disc was taken up on their trip to the Holy Land and the family's search for free wi-fi there in. We get it, tourists are dumb and your wife loves to shop, its not funny. The last part about "how to become a professional author" was so bad if it wasn't the last story I wouldn’t have finished the book, your sarcasm just makes me mad. All in all, skip this book and pick up one of Barry's early works, to see if my recollection is correct.
    • 3/5
      This is, at the time of this writing, Dave Barry’s latest book of hitherto unpublished essays, based on the fact that it was published in 2014 and it’s only April. The title, naturally, is misleading and has been chosen from one line in the book because it’s funny. Or at least I thought it was funny, and it makes me look good because I—stay with me here—want my kids to hold off on dating until they are twenty-five when their brains have fully matured, biologically speaking. Not that anyone else in my house agrees with me, and one of my daughters has had two boyfriends already and she hasn’t even finished high school (I know, you’re shocked). In this book Dave, tells us about his trip to a Justin Bieber concert with his 13 year old daughter, Sophie, manliness, what women want (that essay could just as easily be titled “a review of 50 Shades of Grey,” and I’m sure I enjoyed it far more than I would ever enjoy the book, which, like his wife, I haven’t read), and so on. This book is about more than just laughs, however, for example, in one essay he learns you real good grammar.So why only three stars, even though my 15 year old yelled at me for laughing too loud when she was trying to fall asleep on a school night? I’ll tell you:1.not all the essays are equally funny2.sometimes he uses language offensive to me (but perhaps not to you)3.He is sporting, and I’m not making this up, a haircut that looks a lot like what some of the boys I went to high school wore—in the 1970s.4.No other reasons that I can think of.