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You Can Date Boys When Youre Forty: Dave Barry on Parenting and Other Topics He Knows Very Little About Audiobook, by Dave Barry Play Audiobook Sample

You Can Date Boys When You're Forty: Dave Barry on Parenting and Other Topics He Knows Very Little About Audiobook

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Read By: Dave Barry Publisher: Penguin Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 2.17 hours at 1.5x Speed 1.63 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: March 2014 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9780698149977

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

22

Longest Chapter Length:

25:04 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

01:35 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

09:11 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

15

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Publisher Description

If there’s one thing that New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Dave Barry is an expert on, it’s raising a daughter. …which means he’s not an expert on much considering the breadth of his knowledge on that subject fills only a single chapter of a book. However, what Dave Barry is good at is giving unsolicited advice on topics he’s definitively not an expert on. In fact, he now has an entire book filled with guidance on things he knows nothing about, including: surviving in the wild, wooing women, cremation, maintaining a scintillating conversation, Justin Bieber, the U.S. Postal Service, enduring the TSA, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and, most obviously, being a professional author. With trademark wit and unmatched insight into the insanity of everyday life, Dave Barry presents a series of hilarious, never-before-published essays on the trials and tribulations of living and laughing in the modern age.

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“Award-winning humor author DaveBarry dishes up an assortment of ripe essays exposing the ridiculous sides oflife through his classic style of dry and sardonic humor. This entertaininglisten provides Barry’s observations on parenting, funeral planning, batmitzvahs, relationships, and contemporary culture. Listeners are also treatedto an amusing travelogue depicting a family vacation in Israel. Barry’s nasaltone and unpolished cadence may diminish the performance for listenersaccustomed to more skilled narrators. However, with Barry as the narrator ofhis own work, the essays take on the quality of a stand-up comedy monologuewith impeccable comedic pauses. Barry’s conversational diction and near perfectdelivery of cheeky humor make up for his periodic bungling of pronunciations.Overall, Barry delivers another collection of hilariously entertaining essays.”

— AudioFile

Quotes

  • “If you were on that clichéd desert island and could follow only one sage’s advice, it would have to be Dave Barry’s.”

    — New York Times
  • “‘Grammar, sex, camels, women, brain surgery, sex with women, how to become a professional author, airlines, Justin Bieber, and death’ is how Dave Barry described the subjects of his new book, but even that hodge-podge lineup renders only an imperfect snapshot of this humor book’s weird diversity. Indefatigable as ever, this shrewd humorist has made a career of stumbling into subjects like a visitor from a distant planet. In this case, Fifty Shades of Grey and being the Baby Boomer father of a teenage daughter serve as spurs to hilarious, yet strangely wise riffs. Sometimes laughter is the best parenting therapy.”

    — Barnes&Noble.com, editorial review
  • “[A] hilarious collection…Barry is particularly sidesplitting when describing his role as the sixty-five-year-old dad of a thirteen-year-old daughter. His description of taking his teen to a Justin Bieber concert is brilliantly funn…Parents and nonparents alike will find plenty of laughs.”

    — Publishers Weekly
  • “Humorous take on life…Barry offers a baby-boomer perspective on a faster-paced life of electronic gadgetry and the Internet and ponders the aging process, including getting mail marketing Medicare and watching Viagra commercials in the company of your children.”

    — Booklist 
  • “[A] wide-ranging collection of funny essays…even those who don’t have children and have never lived in Miami or searched for a Wi-Fi connection in the Israeli desert will appreciate Barry’s lighthearted absurdity.”

    — Kirkus Reviews

Awards

  • Nominated for the 2015 Audie Award for Humor

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About Dave Barry

Dave Barry is the author of more bestsellers than you can count on two hands, including Lessons from Lucy, Dave Barry’s Complete Guide to Guys, Dave Barry Turns 40, and Dave Barry Is Not Making This Up. A wildly popular syndicated columnist, he won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for commentary.