Dave Barry in Cyberspace

by Dave Barry

Book Overview

"RELENTLESSLY FUNNY . . . BARRY SHINES." --People A self-professed computer geek who actually does Windows 95, bestselling humorist Dave Barry takes us on a hilarious hard drive via the information... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0449912302
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 0.5" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

ROTFL :---)

This book is rip-roaring, side-splitting, and downright howlarious! Oh my god. I read it cover to cover as though I were taking the bar exam except that every other minute I was literally rolling on the carpet howling as though someone was performing the "Tunisian Tickle Torture" on me. And I'm not even exaggerating.The first few chapters are incredibly funny, and as you get accustomed to his kind of humor you start to want more and more of it and you eventually start laughing in preparation for his jokes!Coming to the actual content of this book - it is an extremely comically cynical look at computers and how they affect everyone everyday. The guffaws begin with his description of evidence of computer usage in the stone ages, continue through to his tips on selecting a computer to buy, persist with his description of software and its purpose and culminate with a tongue-in-cheek description of the "information superhighway", internet and chat rooms. My personal favorite is his definition of "electricity" - it should appear in all physics text books.Somewhere towards the end, there is also a somewhat touching story about a couple that meet in a chat room. I wonder if it landed up in this book as a mistaken cut-and-paste operation. Nice to read all the same.All in all, if you are ever bored, forget TV and everything else - pick up this book and do yourself a favor. You never thought you could laugh so much.

A classic! Dave Barry advances to new tecnology!

Any situation he comes across, Dave Barry can make it funny. And its all true. I think the funniest bits are about the Windows operation system version 1.0 (C:), and the question and answer bit about the internet. I dont know how you do it, Dave, but dont stop! Any true Dave Barry fan, get this book or I'll kill this dog! PS His best book, which I would give 6 stars if possible, is "Dave Barry Slept Here", the history book.

The funniest book I've ever read.

This book is easily the funniest piece of literature ever written. Everything he says is true and we've all had many of the same observations as he writes about, but nobody could make it as funny as Dave Barry did in this book. On a couple occasions, I almost got heartburn and suffocated from laughing so hard. This is a must-read for every literate person in the digitalized world. Five stars was not nearly enough!

Revenge of the sub-nerds

What other author could sum up Jerry Pournelle in one sentence, make jokes about the Radio Shack TRS-80, tell an enticing tale about a cyber romance, and still manage to work the word "booger" in at least once per chapter? Updike couldn't do it. Mailer certainly couldn't do it. Only Dave Barry can do it.

the internet was never so funny

Dave Barry has, yet again, made somthing that is usually a serious matter funny. From a detailed look on how he doesn't know exactly what makes a computer work (and then you send your child back for the premium dipping sauce.....) to emoticons that you will never in a million years know how to make (unless of course, you have an italic animal section on your keyboard) Dave Barry makes you wish you had the knowledge to use the Internet (but the book is also for people under the age where you can only remember when technolegy was limited to the color telivison) all in all, a great book.