You Can Date Boys When You're Forty: Dave Barry On Parenting And Other Topics He Knows Very Little About (2014) - Plot & Excerpts
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 commercials. He may not appeal to everybody but this book spoke to me! So if you love Bieber, "male enhancement products" and "Fifty Shades" give this one a pass but I plan to read more of his humor. I admit to being predisposed to liking anything written by Dave Barry. Basically, I want to be Dave Barry when or if I grow up. Or maybe it is the opposite – I hardly think that going from “lawyer/litigator” to “humor writer” could be called growing up. Anyway, I really did like this book.Aside from the whole humor writer thing, my life parallels Dave Barry’s in some ways, or rather, his life parallels my family’s. In his family, he is in his 60s and yet has a young daughter and an adult son from a previous marriage. His wife is younger and Jewish, and he is not Jewish. In my family, my husband is in his 60s, and we have young kids about Dave’s daughter’s age, he has an adult son from a previous marriage. I am much younger than my husband, and I am Jewish, and my husband is Not. So there was a lot for me to relate to – about parenting children the age of my children, about being so much older than the other kids parents, about Bat Mitzvah prep, and even the final chapter about being a writer. Given that, it is possible that I liked this book more than other people would.Still, whether you relate personally to what is going on or not, no one can argue that Dave Barry is just flat out, hands down, inarguably hilarious. Hilarious like don’t drink anything when you are reading him or you will spit it across the room. Hilarious like don’t read him in the waiting room of a doctor’s office or the other patients and family’s of patients will look at you like you are a psycho. Don’t read him on your iPad or phone while you are sitting through some boring meeting/class/lecture or you will be quickly found out.
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There WERE some truly laugh out loud moments in the book, but it wasn't a fave.
—gracecwalters
