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Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need by Dave Barry
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Dave Barry's only travel guide you'll ever need

by Dave Barry

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New York: Fawcett Columbine, c1991. xi, 171 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm. 1st ed

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Tags:humor
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I'm generally a fan of Dave Barry, but I wasn't that impressed with this book. It was fairly amusing, but there were only a handful of times I actually laughed out loud. ( )
  kyuuketsukirui | Nov 19, 2008 |
As the title says, this is the only travel guide you'll ever need. If you travel a lot to different countries or even just the US or do roadtrips from time to time, you will see situations you've exprienced in this book.
And how could I not like a book where my country gets described, "When we think of Switzerland, the picturesque image that springs to mind is that of men standing on top of Alps wearing comical shorts and making sounds that can only result from a major hormonal imbalance." And that, "Switzerland doesn't even permit bacteria."
Hilarious all the way through. ( )
  Thalia | Dec 1, 2006 |
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Dave describes the dark side of tourism with such comical precision that you'll wonder why you ever bother to leave the safety of your living room. For my money, nobody has ever produced a better snapshot of the Baggage Carousel, "where passengers traditionally gather at the end of a flight to spend several relaxing hours watching the arrival of luggage from some other flight, which comes randomly spurting out of a mysterious troll-infested tunnel that is apparently connected to another airport, possibly in a different dimension."

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