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Dave Barry - Big Trouble
 
   

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61 out of 61 people found this review helpful.

Big Trouble in Little Miami

Date of Review:  Nov 11, 2000
Review: I did not fall out of my chair while reading Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Dave Barry?s first novel, ?Big Trouble.?

I mention this only because, according to the jacket blurbs, this rather odd mishap mishappened to Stephen King. But...
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  4.0

by: martineden
Recommended to buy: Yes

Pros
Funny, easy read
Cons
That's as far as it goes
 
36 out of 36 people found this review helpful.

Big Trouble: Barry's first attempt at a novel.

Date of Review:  Jan 24, 2002
The Bottom Line: Overall, Dave Barry's first novel comes out better than you might think.
Review: Dave Barry is one of those writers whose work I enjoy, even though he does start getting predictable after a while. I've read most of his books and I make it a habit of logging on to the Miami Herald Website each Sunday morning to read his column...
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  4.0

by: jeff_wilder78
Recommended to buy: Yes

Pros
Funny characters and dialogue.
Cons
Lightweight
 
24 out of 24 people found this review helpful.

Motley Ship of Fools

Date of Review:  Oct 27, 1999
Review: An earlier epinion focused on the fact that this first novel by Dave Barry was more or less a collection of some of his essays combined into a single narrative. I had never read any of Barry's previous essays nor seen him speak or perform, prior to...
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  5.0

by: David
Recommended to buy: Yes

Pros
Extremely humorous and clever, Easy...
Cons
Wish it were longer, A bit predictable
 
23 out of 23 people found this review helpful.

Big Trouble: For Once, Dave Barry Admits He IS Making This Up.

Date of Review:  Mar 7, 2001
The Bottom Line: It's a $6 book...you really can't go wrong with picking it up. Pretty entertaining, although a bit confusing.
Review: I've been a big fan of Dave Barry's since I borrowed one of his book from a friend while in High School. It was the first time I'd ever read anything that just made me burst out laughing. So I went on to read all the rest of his stuff I could find...
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  4.0

by: Alkaiser
Recommended to buy: Yes

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Pretty funny, amusing cast of...
Cons
Bit short of a read, all the events...
 
22 out of 22 people found this review helpful.

Barry easily lives up to Hiaasen's standards

Date of Review:  Sep 5, 2000
Review: Well, for those of you who may have doubted Dave Barry's ability to write a good novel, you're in for a big surprise, because "Big Trouble" is great.

I know, because I just read it last night. In 2 hours. I simply couldn't put it down. It...
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  5.0

by: sheila18
Recommended to buy: Yes

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Funny, compelling, a quick read,...
Cons
He hasn't yet written another.
 
21 out of 21 people found this review helpful.

Dogs and Frogs and Goats, Oh My!

Date of Review:  Jun 26, 2001
The Bottom Line: The best you can do is to not drink much before you read Big Trouble, because you will wet yourself eventually.
Review: During the Election Heard (and subsequently Laughed About) 'Round The World last winter, Dave Barry made a rare television appearance on Larry King Live as part of a humorist panel's view on the election. And for a few precious minutes, Larry King...
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  5.0

by: Afterglow34
Recommended to buy: Yes

Pros
Relentless laughs; Barry's wicked...
Cons
Won't strain your brain.
 
17 out of 17 people found this review helpful.

Big Trouble is Big Laughter

Date of Review:  Jul 8, 2002
The Bottom Line: Good reading if you want to catch some laughs before bedtime or in the tub.
Review: This as-matter-of-fact tale told by the cynically observant Dave Barry involves a splurge of random characters from Miami, or visiting Miami.

Barry's first novel begins with the account and background of Puggy, a stocky but strong bum who...
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  4.0

by: bluefishie
Recommended to buy: Yes

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easy to read, quick read, Barry's...
Cons
similar jokes might get old
 
14 out of 14 people found this review helpful.

Heatstroke from the Florida sunshine

Date of Review:  Nov 6, 2001
The Bottom Line: Dave Barry makes his novelistic debut with an enjoyable but facile Carl Hiaasen-like tale of generic south Florida lunacy.
Review: This is the first novel from Miami-based humor columnist Dave Barry, and also, perversely, the first of Barry's 20 or so books that I've happened to have read. It gained my interest by having been filmed as a major motion picture whose September...
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  4.0

by: Cassady
Recommended to buy: Yes

Pros
Adroit plot, humor, readability.
Cons
Chronically stupid characters. A little...
 
14 out of 14 people found this review helpful.

Dave Barry's Big Trouble is a big surprise.

Date of Review:  Jul 26, 2001
The Bottom Line: This should defenitley be a fun read for the late teenage and adult group. Pick it up if you fall into that category, just don't expect everything to be humorous.
Review: I ordered Big Trouble from Amazon.com because I had recently become addicted to Dave Barry--plus, the upcoming movie piqued my interest. Today, at around 1:00 PM, I got it from UPS. An hour ago, at around 10:45 PM, I had gone through all 317 pages...
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  5.0

by: John_McKeenan
Recommended to buy: Yes

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WOW! This book perfectly mixes a simple...
Cons
I wish a few characters got a lot more...
 
13 out of 13 people found this review helpful.

Dave Barry's first novel isn't half bad

Date of Review:  Feb 28, 2000
Review: I feel about Dave Barry the way I do about Madonna. You could never take either of them seriously, but both of them in the mid '80s were the best at what they did. And both of them, in the interminable decade-and-a-half since, have stretched...
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  3.0

by: Andrew_Hicks
Recommended to buy: Yes

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First 75 pages sizzle with terrific...
Cons
Overblown, overlong Hollywood-style...
 

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