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Dave Barry's Complete Guide to Guys
Dave Barry's Complete Guide to Guys
Author: Dave Barry
ISBN-13: 9780345440631
ISBN-10: 0345440633
Publication Date: 9/5/2000
Pages: 272
Rating:
  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
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3.9 stars, based on 37 ratings
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Book Type: Paperback
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reviewed Dave Barry's Complete Guide to Guys on + 17 more book reviews
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Absoultely hilarious. Both guys and girls will find this book amusing. Read it!!!
indygo88 avatar reviewed Dave Barry's Complete Guide to Guys on + 8 more book reviews
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I think this book just basically reinforces all those qualities about men that we, as women (I guess I'm speaking to the women readers here), have always known. At times I thought Dave Barry got almost a little too sarcastic or was trying too hard to be funny, but it was still an overall good read. And I guess I had to pause & think, and then totally agree, that he does have a good point in that almost every single act of violence in the world is instigated by someone of the male species. Women just generally aren't very violent, are they? But men seem to have this underlying drive to be such. Makes you think.
reviewed Dave Barry's Complete Guide to Guys on + 30 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
There are also some passages that are so eerily realistic, and so intimate, in their depiction of the guy psyche, that they read more like a documentary than a humorous editorial. You can almost imagine David Attenborough crouching down in the corner of the men's room, whispering, "Here we see the males of the species gathering to dispense of liquid waste at a row of urinals, but if you think their choice of urinal location is careless, you'd be wrong...." There really is a detailed explanation of urinal etiquette that is dead on the mark for accuracy.

As always, the foibles are presented in a good-natured way which both the guilty and innocent should equally enjoy. This book can also be a good ego booster, since every man should be able to find at least one passage where he can say "At least I never did that!"
bookluver-in-sc avatar reviewed Dave Barry's Complete Guide to Guys on + 229 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Real funny book by Dave Barry. Will make you laugh out loud.
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Light humor. Reads very quickly. Very funny to most women.
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A fun book by syndicated newspaper columnist Dave Barry. Hilarious and enjoyable
reviewed Dave Barry's Complete Guide to Guys on + 60 more book reviews
very FUNNY!
reviewed Dave Barry's Complete Guide to Guys on + 41 more book reviews
Hilarious!
reviewed Dave Barry's Complete Guide to Guys on + 6 more book reviews
A must for any man or any woman who wants to understand her man. It's very humourous and explains a lot of things. My husband says it hits "guyhood" right on the head.
reviewed Dave Barry's Complete Guide to Guys on + 113 more book reviews
Hilarious. Natch: Dave Barry always is. Here you will learn all about guys. Why guys prefer to believe there is no such thing as a "prostate." Why guys cannot simultaneously think and look at breasts. And what is it with that scratching?
reviewed Dave Barry's Complete Guide to Guys on + 7 more book reviews
Too funny that Dave Berry!
constant-reader avatar reviewed Dave Barry's Complete Guide to Guys on + 130 more book reviews
Classic Dave, what more can