Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus Book

Normally I would give 5 stars to a Nobel prize-winning book or some classic like Don Quixote. Dave Barry is that much of a genius. In this audio edition, read gamely by ex-American Top 40 countdown host Shadoe Stevens, Barry expounds on seemingly everything in modern society that has ever annoyed me, like loud Harley riders and public cigar smokers who "smell like an arm pit on fire". He also rails against boredom, against activities like golf ("It's not all boring - just the part where you hit the little white ball around. The parts with the cart are fun.") and fishing ("...which is boring, unless you actually catch a fish. Then it's just disgusting."). Barry always lets you know he's human, too, like when he heavily criticizes Phillip Morris for trying to give a new brand of cigarettes the casual name "Dave's". Maybe during the commercials "Dave" can "hock up a folksy chunk of trachea. Maybe we can call one of the by-products of smoking a nice-sounding disease like 'Jeffrey's Leukemia'". I must say I found myself listening to many parts of book many times and also slowing down on the way home so I could hear more of it, laughing out loud as mildly annoyed drivers passed by. Barry is creative, vivid, opinionated and always on the side of the average human trying to make his or her way through an increasingly complex world.