Dave Barry Turns 40 Author:Dave Barry "Just the ticket for the '90s." — SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE — If you're too young for a nursing home yet too old to be a rock star, if your marriage is as exciting as scraping grass off the lawnmower blades, then this hilarious book by Pulitzer-Prize-winning columnist and author is for you. Put on your protective eyewear and take a probing look insi... more »de your increasingly Spam-like body at: The Midlife (Yawn) Marriage; Wise Financial Planning for Irresponsible Scum Such as Yourself; Sex After 40 (or, Sex? After 40?), and other harsh, but amusing realities that leave you laughing, crying and drooling.« less
Dave Barry is brilliantly funny, but only if you read these columns spaced over time. To read his humor columns back to back is deprive them of their quirks and twists - very quickly, you identify the "formula" he uses to construct his columns and then the glee goes out of them.
There is a column on his mother near the middle of the book, however, that is not to be missed.