I finished Dave Barry’s Only Travel Guide You’ll Ever Need in 24.5 hours. The brevity of the book, and the lack of finals to study for, contributed to my rapid completion of the tome. I thought it was pretty good.
“Pretty good! That’s all! But this is Dave Barry, greatest humorist of our time!” I hear you scream. Yeah, yeah, I know the hype. I even link to his blog and read his column religiously. But Travel Guide was just not as laugh-out-loud funny as his columns. Maybe it’s the length, but it just wasn’t the spectacular success I expected. Maybe it’s the subject, and Hits Below the Beltway will be better (Barry 2004!), but I won’t know that for a couple of books.
The next project is Cannonball!. I expect it will be interesting; details on quality to come after I read it.
- (Current Book)Cannonball! World’s Greatest Outlaw Road Race, Brock Yates
- To Engineer is Human, Henry Petroski
- Dave Barry Hits Below the Beltway
- Life of Pi, Yann Martel
- Restoring the Lost Constitution, Randy Barnett
- Candide, Voltaire
