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- From: sueba@pogo.wv.tek.com (Sue Bartlett)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.dave_barry
- Subject: Re: People Magazine Worst Books
- Message-ID: <14304@pogo.wv.tek.com>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 22:46:48 GMT
- References: <C1ABts.Ly3@moscow.uidaho.edu> <C1ExJK.32v@sdf.lonestar.org>
- Reply-To: sueba@pogo.wv.tek.com
- Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Wilsonville, OR.
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- In article <C1ExJK.32v@sdf.lonestar.org> labamba@sdf.lonestar.org (Peter Steiger) writes:
- >> I've read other Dave Barry books I like better (Dave Barry
- >> Turns 40, Dave Barry's Bad Habits, Dave Barry's Greatest Hits)
- >> but I liked Dave Barry Does Japan.
- >
- >What I've noticed is that his "theme" books aren't as good as his collections
- >of articles. Even after all the other books, _Bad Habits_ remains my
- >favorite.
-
- I'm not sure I should admit this, but the Japan book is still sitting on
- the floor by my bed waiting to be read. (more patient than a dog...)
-
- I have to say that the book that got me started on this road to ruin is
- "Babies and Other Hazards of Sex, or what you can do in just nine months
- with tools you probably have around the house". I picked it up one day
- in a book store and fell immediately to the aisle in laughter. I judged
- that they'd probably make me pay for it anyway, so I bought it. I now
- feel it is a requisite gift to all new parents although I find that it
- is parents that now have older kids (and are properly distanced from
- infants) who appreciate it the best. None have hit me quite like that one
- and I don't even have kids. Maybe that's why. could be marketed as a
- birth control product....
-
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