The Bridge to Never Land is by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson. It is book five of the Peter Pan and the Starcatchers’ series. Unlike the others, it takes place in America as well as London and Neverland. It lacks an edge that the others had; but it is still a fantastic book. I highly recommen...
My second real venture into the world of audio books (The Harry Potter books don't count because I had already read them). We will see how it goes. Again, I don't want something too heavy or thought provoking, but I still have to like it enough to not get bored and keep going... Just some basic, ...
Very entertaining. Dave Barry has a form of humor that is not common anymore in our society. I found myself laughing out loud while I waited at the mechanic's reading "I'll Mature When I'm Dead". The chapters I didn't enjoy as much were the 24 parody and the Twilight parody, though to be fair ...
Peter and the Sword of Mercy is a continuation of the Peter and the Starcatchers series. It is book four. The books are by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson. They wrote this series together beginning at an attempt to answer questions their children had about Peter Pan. Interestingly, they wrote t...
Dave Barry is a comic genius, and this book, written together with the co-author of Peter and the Shadow Thieves, is a laugh-out-loud masterpiece. It all centers around a science fair in a middle school where the rich, spoiled-rotten kids who always get their way, normally win the prize. This t...
Number five in the Peter Pan books. But not as compelling as the others. I have read the other books and just loved them! I thought this was great too.
SM Fifth book in the star catcher series. Fantasy/adventure genre. upper grade levels
Pohoda, smích, zábava. Oddech. Pretty funny, esp. marriage/parenting stuff. Have to support a Haverfordian, too! :)
I've loved Dave Barry for a long time and read a ton of his work, including the Starcatchers/Peter Pan series. As a teenager, I went straight to his articles in the newspaper, and I received books of his work for Christmas-not many teens would do that! I snatched this up at the library and read i...
Picked this up because I thought it would be funny. I had read his articles in the past which were mildly smirkable but this is not funny. I think it feels dated even though it is new. His observations or stories sound like jokes from the 1980s or 90s which might have been his prime. Comedy can b...
I'd never read Dave Barry except for an except on a medical procedure that made my flesh crawl but I'd heard that he is funny. I picked this book on tape between fiction choices and it was hilarious. Barry makes light of Justin Bieber, Male/Female differences, Fifty Shades of Gray and Viagra comm...
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http://iandbooks.wordpress.com/This is one of the craziest books I have ever read. Dave Barry is an American author and satirist. His humor and satire is really over the top. If he gets after somebody then God help that person or country. I have read some of his books earlier but “Dave Barry Slep...
Dave Barry’s Money Secrets is like a Fantasyland ride through all the stuff that bugs us most in the real world: finances, the economy, work and the corporate environment, sending kids to college, marital arguments, dubious infomercials, buying a car and retirement. Celebrity value is added with ...
It has been awhile since I read this, but I recall it being sooo funny. I think this is my favorite passage:Let's say a guy named Roger is attracted to a woman named Elaine. He asks her out to a movie; she accepts; they have a pretty good time. A few nights later he asks her out to dinner, and ag...
No book can guarantee you a long and happy relationship, even if the author didn't know about your secret hygiene problem. But the cover of a book is no place to discuss that. In Dave Barry's Guide to Marriage and/or Sex, one of America's most beloved writers turns his keen, if somewhat rheumy, e...
When funnyman Dave Barry asked readers about their least favorite tunes, he thought he was penning just another installment of his weekly syndicated humor column. But the witty writer was flabbergasted by the response when over 10,000 readers voted. "I have never written a column that got a bigge...
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, bestselling author, and Wheel of Fortune contestant Dave Barry exposes the shattering truth. Whether he's splashing with the U.S. sychronized swim team ("Picture a bunch of elegant swans swimming with a flailing sea cow") or reliving the Pilgrims' first Thanksgi...
It’s warped. It pokes outrageous fun at the stupidity in all of us—especially the ‘us’ who live in Florida (not me—those other people), and it uses adult language like I hear it used in the street all the time. It also has all the good stuff we like in a novel: murder, sex, drugs, violence, hijac...
Barry is like a male Erma Bombeck. He discuss the pains and complexities of a 'married with children' lifestyle. While Barry is not hilarious, he is funny in a dark-humor kind of way, which is my favorite kind of humor. He also reminds me of a Ray Romano-type comic.Honestly, though, Barry's hu...
So it's October, 2002, and I have just touched down in Moscow on a business trip. In the morning, I will be touring the city with Alexey Pajitnov, the creator of Tetris; but guess what, I have the worst case of jet lag I have ever had.Let me set the scene. Moscow was in a state of turmoil at th...
Honestly, it is almost like shooting fish in a barrel to write a humor book about the process of selling your home, buying a new one, and moving. It's a process rife with annoyances and such annoyances are a great basis for humor.That said, this book is very brief. It has some funny, laugh out lo...
Really funny, until the book started going on about how fibromyalgia suffers were just "sissies" who faked a disease because they feel a little "icky-doody." Maybe talk to someone who actually has the disease instead of mocking the support group that wouldn't let you sit in because they're sensit...
This story, Peter and the Starcatchers, by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson, is the first book of the Peter and the Starcatchers series. In this teenage version of Peter Pan, orphaned Peter and 4 other orphan boys (James, Prentiss, Thomas, and Tubby Ted) set out on a journey from the dusty streets ...
Finally! Finished! This was a really funny book! Dave Barry is an excellent author, and knows exactly how to make you laugh. Here are a few of my fav quotes:In a major upset at the Academy Awards, the Oscars for Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor and Actress, AND Best Supportin...
Up ahead we could see the Capitol and a bunch of other Washington-y stuff. Mr. Barto got on the bus P.A. microphone and started pointing out historic things, but since he’s Mr. Barto he kept getting them wrong. Like he’d say, “Over here to the left you can see the Lincoln Memorial,” and Miss Rect...
Old houses, which used to be good, because they were built back when they built them the way they used to, but which today, as a result of being old, are crap. So whichever kind of house you own, it’s going to be some variety of crap, which means sooner or later everything...
For one thing, childbirth has a definite end to it. The baby comes out, looking like a vaseline-smeared ferret, and the parents get to beam at it joyfully, and that is that. Whereas the average move goes on forever. You take Couple A, who just had a baby, and Couple B, who just moved their househ...
OUTCOME You Must Crush Your Opponent Like an Insect LET’S SAY TWO MEN—call them Bob and John* 34—both want to buy a new car. They go to the same dealership on the same day and order the same model of car, with exactly the same options. Yet John pays $3,500 less for the car than Bob does. Why? Sim...
This time was called “the 1950s.” I was a child then, and it was horrible. There were only three TV channels, and at any given moment at least two of them were showing men playing the accordion in black and white. There was no remote control, so if you wanted to change the channel, you had to yel...
The theme of the show was: “Women Who Cannot Correctly Spell Their Own Names.” No, seriously, the theme was: “Superstars of the Diet Wars.” This was a debate among top diet experts, who felt so strongly about the correct way to lose weight that at times they came close to whacking each other over...