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

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