Mark Twain is supposed to have said something about pretty much everything, which is why people quote him so often. It also makes those quotes hard to verify. But because I like it so much, I'm going to use this anyway:"Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't."
I would also argue that truth tends to be much funnier than fiction, which is why if I had to pick my favorite Dave Barry book, it would be this one. Interestingly, this book also contains a couple of fairly serious pieces, which work just as well for me. And of course, his most popular column EVER: the Bad Song Survey. Along with my time in customer service, the survey emphasizes for me that most profound and universal human condition: people don't always talk much about stuff that makes them happy. But they WILL go on at great length, volume and eloquence about things they HATE. I myself am proof of that more than I care to admit.
But not here, and not now. Here I talk about books, and books are what I love. Reading makes me happy, and reading Dave Barry makes me laugh. Huzzah for humor! (Words make me happy too, and people don't say things like "Huzzah!" enough. I'm changing that.)
Author: Dave Barry
Potentially objectionable content: No more than is ever present with his books
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