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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 818.5402
EAN: 9780786296538
Format: Large Print
ISBN: 0786296534
Label: Thorndike Pr (Largeprint)
Manufacturer: Thorndike Pr (Largeprint)
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 261
Publication Date: September 17, 2007
Publisher: Thorndike Pr (Largeprint)
Studio: Thorndike Pr (Largeprint)

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
A brilliantly funny exploration of the tumultuous recent past from the Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist.




Rating: - I'm not making this up: Dave Barry's style is not aging well
"History of the Millennium (So Far)" collects Dave Barry's end-of year comic analyses from the year 1999 to the present. As he has with his more recent works, he trots out his overly familiar litany of non-sequiturs and recurring jokes. There is little humor in this work and little insight. Truth be told, I often was unclear on what Barry was lampooning. His 2000 piece -- full of references to citrus canker and Elian Gonzales -- might have been funnier at the time. But the canker references were ... Read More

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Rating: - Typically amusing Dave Barry book!
THis is a collection of Dave Barry's end-of-year roundup stories for his Florida newspaper. It's especially amusing if you remember (vaguely) most of the events he mocks, teases, winks at, and satirizes in classic Dave Barry ways. I found it very amusing and read thru it in no time. Like eating sherbert.

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Rating: - Kept me laughing
This was a pleasure to read. He kept me laughing throughout the book. I especially liked the way he would unexpectedly make an allusion to some modern personality while writing about a historical event or person. To appreciate Barry's humor, one has to have a basic knowledge of history and current events.

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Rating: - Not as Good as Barry's Other Work, and Ludicrous That 2001 isn't Covered at All!
Unlike his fiction novels which are all brilliant Dave Barry's non fiction books do vary in quality. Most are great but some seem to be filling contract obligations with not much effort put in. History of the Millennium (So Far) is one of those weaker efforts.

For starters 2001 is not covered at all (technically the starting year of the millennium). Ridiculous! How can you have a history of the Millennium without the most media covered year of the human race's history to date included. ... Read More

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Rating: - Absolutely Freaking Hilarious
With Dave Barry I admit I do laugh out loud quite often and this book is no exception. Granted I had not read this year in review columns for these past few years so I don't know if these were just rehashes of what was printed there but honestly they were all just so funny that I read through this book in record time.

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