Live right and find happiness (although beer is much faster)
Subtitle: life lessons and other ravings from Dave Barry
By: Dave Barry
Edition: Large print edition.
Series: Thorndike Press large print core; Thorndike Press large print core series
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9781410475084
Subjects: Humor; Life; Families
Description: In brand-new, never-before-published pieces, Dave passes on home truths to his new grandson and to his daughter Sophie, who will be getting her learner's permit in 2015 ("So you're about to start driving! How exciting! I'm going to kill myself."). He explores the hometown of his youth, where the grown-ups were supposed to be uptight fifties conformists, but seemed to have a lot of un-Mad Men-like fun, unlike Dave's own Baby Boomer generation, which was supposed to be wild and crazy, but somehow turned into neurotic hover-parents. He dives into everything from the inanity of cable news and the benefits of Google Glass ("You will look like a douchebag") to the loneliness of high school nerds ("You will never hear a high school girl say about a boy, in a dreamy voice, 'He's so sarcastic!'"), from the perils of home repair to first-hand accounts of the soccer craziness of Brazil and the just plain crazy craziness of Vladimir Putin's Russia ("He stares at the camera with the expression of a man who relaxes by strangling small furry animals"), and a lot more besides.
Notes: Originally published: New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2015.
Table of contents: title: Bite me, David Beckham; title: A letter to my daughter as she becomes eligible for a Florida learner's permit (unless I can get the law changed); title: The real Mad Men; title: In which we learn to love Brazil, and try to hate Belgium; title: Cable news is on it; title: Everything I know about home ownership I learned from Johnny Carson; title: Google Glass: A review. I have seen the future, but I had trouble reading it; title: To Russia with Ridley: The adventures of cloak and dagger; title: A letter to my grandson.