Book 10: Boogers are my Beat: More Lies but some Actual Journalism from Dave Barry

I love Dave Barry. I read his column regularly, I appreciate his sense of humor, and I look forward every time I go to the bookstore because inevitably there’s some new book by him I can pick up to read.

This book is a collection of Barry’s most recent columns. It starts out with a few political pieces, then moves to some random columns on a variety of topics, such as North Dakota, Windows XP, the Loan Ranger, etc. He closes the collection with a couple of essays regarding September 11.

As column collections go, the humor is there, and I did laugh in parts. But there wasn’t really anything new here. Barry’s humor is, for me, just a little bit predictable because he makes the same kinds of jokes about the same kinds of things. But still, I enjoyed this book. Probably not enough to keep from selling it back to the local used book store once my mom finishes reading it, but I enjoyed it nonetheless.