"Live Right and Find Happiness (Although Beer Is Much Faster)" by Dave Barry G.P.Putnam's 225 pages $26.95
An absurdist (to me) is someone that can take ordinary items and quickly make you peal with laughter with their use/presentation in a sentence or paragraph. Example: Barry on women's bathing suits on Rio beaches - the size of eye patches for mice.
During a delve into why Americans hate soccer, he delivers the following:
"Despite the fact that nothing ever happens, the fans spend the entire game jumping up and down like prairie dogs on cocaine..."
The players are foreign and "They sport haircuts that were apparently administered by a blind heroin addict in the mens' room of a Bulgarian disco in 1978."
Still laughing? Me, too, and I had to type it! There is no shortage of Barry books to amuse you - I think this one is number 26 or 27. At the bookstore buy two - one to read now (such as this one) and one against a rainy winter day.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment