Review: Canada's Dave Barry. Enjoyable, Humorous Reading About the Other Real World
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 29, 2012
In my review of Kirkland's "When My Mind Wanders," I said that he was Canada's answer to Dave Barry. I used to read Dave Barry daily, then on Sundays when our paper stopped carrying him on a regular basis. I looked forward to that column as a respite in my day or week. Well, if Gordon Kirkland was published in our papers locally (not likely if they have to pay him), that would be the first column I'd turn to.Kirkland is the modern day P. G. Wodehouse or Mark Twain and could easily have been part of the Algonquin Roundtable. If none of them are familiar, then not only are you in for a treat with Kirkland's "I'm Having One of Those Decades," but you can go back 70 years and have fun with the last century's humorists.