Dave Barry's Complete Guide to Guys
by Dave Barry
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Author: Dave BarryEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2000-09-05
ISBN: 0345440633
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: Ballantine Books
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- ISBN13: 9780345440631
- Condition: New
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Book Reviews of Dave Barry's Complete Guide to Guys
Book Review: Loaded with laughs - and several home truths as well!
Summary: 5 Stars
I am stunned to find that only 36 readers have cared to review this book in the past decade that it has been in print. Dave Barry's Guide to Guys is one of my all time favourites, guaranteed to have me helplessly laughing each time I open it. Barry is of course well known as a humorist, one who can pick out a stray incident or event and then extract every last ounce of laughs from it. More importantly, he has an excellent eye for human interaction and underlying all his digs is a keen mind that observes people.
Though ostensibly a Guide for non-guys (read women), this book will be enjoyed by both genders. I can easily recognize myself and several of my fellow guys in this book - in fact it is uncanny how Barry seems to have been looking over my shoulder. I suspect most guys would similarly recognize themselves in these pages. For that matter, I can recognize some of my lady friends in these pages as well! I have gifted copies of the Guide to several of my lady friends, all of whom loved it. It helps them understand just how simple-minded and uncomplicated we chaps really are - and how to manage us!!
It probably helps if you read the book in the order of its pages, but frankly Barry's brand of mayhem does not require it. You can read it in any order and any number of times, with two outcomes guaranteed. One, you will find yourself nodding and saying, hey, Barry is dead right. Second, you will fall out of your chair laughing hysterically. For the latter reason, it is probably dangerous to read this book in a public place lest someone call the police to report you as crazy!
A great book to own, an even better book to gift to a friend (of either gender), a patient recovering from illness or anyone whom you wish to cheer up. I guarantee nobody can read this with a straight face.
Summary of Dave Barry's Complete Guide to Guys
For thousands of years, women have asked themselves: What is the deal with guys, anyway? What are they thinking? The answer, of course, is: virtually nothing. But that has not stopped Dave Barry from writing an entire book about them, dealing frankly and semi-thoroughly with such important guy issues as:- Scratching
- Why the average guy can remember who won the 1960 World Series but
not necessarily the names of all his children
- Why guys cannot simultaneously think and look at breasts
- Secret guy orgasm-delaying techniques, including the Margaret Thatcher
Method
- Why guys prefer to believe that there is no such thing as a "prostate"
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