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I'll Mature When I'm Dead: Dave…
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I'll Mature When I'm Dead: Dave Barry's Amazing Tales of Adulthood (editie 2011)

door Dave Barry (Auteur)

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Essays. Family & Relationships. Nonfiction. Humor (Nonfiction.) HTML:A brilliantly funny exploration of the treacherous state of adulthood by a Pulitzer Prize–winning humorist.
 
In eighteen hilarious pieces, Dave Barry tackles everything from fatherhood, new fatherhood (“Over the next five years, you will spend roughly 45 minutes, total, listening to songs you like, and roughly 127,000 hours listening to songs exploring topics such as how the horn on the bus goes”), self-image, the battle of the sexes, celebrity, and technology (“In the old days, the closest you could get to Twitter would be to mail dozens of postcards a day to everybody you know, each with a brief message like, ‘Just had a caramel frappuccino. Yum!’”), to parenting styles, reality shows, certain medical procedures (“There is absolutely no reason to be afraid of a vasectomy”), and the ultimate adult, Jack “Damn it, Chloe, there’s no time!” Bauer.
In all, it is an audiobook of pure delight from the man one newspaper said “could become the most important American humorist since Mark Twain” (South Florida Sun-Sentinel).
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Titel:I'll Mature When I'm Dead: Dave Barry's Amazing Tales of Adulthood
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Info:G.P. Putnam's Sons (2011), Edition: Illustrated, 288 pages
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humorous essays
  ritaer | Aug 24, 2021 |
Reading this really slowly. In the bathroom. Of which I think Dave Barry would approve.

***

The vampire chapter was good. Yay Twilight snark. ( )
  beautifulshell | Aug 27, 2020 |
Dave Barry basically formed my sense of humor, I've been a fan since I could read. I just crack open anything written by him and proceed to laugh like an idiot.

The fact that I met him and got my picture taken with him the day I bought this book makes it extra special to me. :) ( )
  AngeH | Jan 2, 2020 |
As with most of Dave Barry's books, some of his essays were funnier than others. Two of his essays really spoke truth to me. His essay on Dance Recitals hit close to home since I just sat through three dance recitals within the last two months. Definitely made me smile. I also appreciated his essay about getting a colonoscopy. My favorite essay, however, was his parody of the Twilight series. I was laughing so hard, I'm sure I was snorting. That essay alone earned 4 stars. ( )
  jguidry | Jul 17, 2019 |
I loved listening to Dave Barry's humor as I was doing the Wii game 'Walk it Out.' I lost track of time and took many more steps than I usually do. And I heard most of the jokes, because Dave Barry writes as he speaks, and reads as he writes, which is a good thing in this case.

Some original insights, a lot of clever phrases, a really neat piece on the need of politicians and other people to feel like VIPs at the Republican Convention - good - and a lot of stale 'men are ruled by their dicks' & other jokes that rely on lame stereotypes - not so good -. Overall, I probably would *not* have liked this in a dead tree edition, as it was mostly too insubstantial & pointless for me.

Btw, I have never seen an episode of '24' and have no interest in that genre, have never read 'Twilight' and have no interest in vampires or dark romance, and have never owned nor wished to own a dog. But I still enjoyed all those parodies. Barry does have talent in that he made me laugh even at these. ( )
  Cheryl_in_CC_NV | Jun 6, 2016 |
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The book presents 18 essays on topics like dance recitals, the health-care crisis, youth sports (a "festival of grimness"), the TV show "24" and being the father of the bride. It's new material, except for a reprint of his 2008 newspaper column on getting a colonoscopy. That piece was "one of those rare instances when I wrote something with an actual point," which was to urge people to get the test.
 

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Essays. Family & Relationships. Nonfiction. Humor (Nonfiction.) HTML:A brilliantly funny exploration of the treacherous state of adulthood by a Pulitzer Prize–winning humorist.
 
In eighteen hilarious pieces, Dave Barry tackles everything from fatherhood, new fatherhood (“Over the next five years, you will spend roughly 45 minutes, total, listening to songs you like, and roughly 127,000 hours listening to songs exploring topics such as how the horn on the bus goes”), self-image, the battle of the sexes, celebrity, and technology (“In the old days, the closest you could get to Twitter would be to mail dozens of postcards a day to everybody you know, each with a brief message like, ‘Just had a caramel frappuccino. Yum!’”), to parenting styles, reality shows, certain medical procedures (“There is absolutely no reason to be afraid of a vasectomy”), and the ultimate adult, Jack “Damn it, Chloe, there’s no time!” Bauer.
In all, it is an audiobook of pure delight from the man one newspaper said “could become the most important American humorist since Mark Twain” (South Florida Sun-Sentinel).

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