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Title details for Dave Barry's History of the Millennium (So Far) by Dave Barry - Available

Dave Barry's History of the Millennium (So Far)

by Dave Barry
Patrick Frederic
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A brilliantly funny look at the tumultuous recent past from the Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist.
Remember when everything was going to go to hell when Y2K struck?
That didn’t happen. Right?
But what did happen? To provide a little perspective on a really messed-up millennium (so far), the one and only Dave Barry slips into his historian’s robe (it’s plush terrycloth) and revisits the defining moments in our country’s recent history. As an added bonus, Barry quickly—we’re busy here—tosses in the complete history of the last millennium, covering crucial turning points such as the invention of the pizza by Leonardo da Vinci and the computer by Charles Babbage (who died in 1871 still waiting to talk to tech support).
Fellow Americans, the time has come to bone up with Barry as he puts the hysterical in history.

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  • Release date

    September 17, 2007

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781101928868
      • File size: 129467 KB
      • Duration: 04:29:43

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Dave Barry is at his best when he's short and sweet, which is one reason to enjoy DAVE BARRY'S HISTORY OF THE MILLENNIUM (SO FAR). Patrick Frederick is the latest in a line of readers of Barry's work, and perhaps the closest to Barry's tone. Frederick lets the humor flow naturally. This is an irreverent, deliberately misinformed history of civilization, unless Peter Minuit really did purchase Manhattan for $64 plus $167,000 a month in maintenance fees. Barry is brutal in his assessment of the Bush administration(s), all of them. But he doesn't spare the Democrats either. This is a perfect dose of Barry's oddball humor, which is great in small doses, say a couple hundred years at a time. M.S. (c) AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      May 28, 2007
      Although Barry retired his column in 2004, he continues to examine current events with his annual “Year in Review” surveys, and the ones he wrote between 2000 and 2006 are collected here. He opens with a 33-page outline of history (from 1000 to 1999) in which we learn that the first book Gutenberg mass produced in 1455 was Codpieces of Passion
      by Danielle Steel, and that computer pioneer Charles Babbage “died in 1871, still waiting to talk to someone from Technical Support.” In 2002, airline industry losses prompted “America West, in a cost-cutting measure, to eliminate the cockpit minibar”; 2003: Jayson Blair, leaving the New York Times
      “thoroughly disgraced, is forced to accept a six-figure book contract”; 2004: Abu Ghraib photos revealed “soldiers repeatedly forcing prisoners to look at the video of Janet Jackson's right nipple”; 2006: Osama bin Laden released “another audiotape, for the first time making it downloadable from iTunes.” As a time line of humor, some of Barry's jokes were probably funnier the year they were written, but it's still a breezy and entertaining read. The 32 clever cartoon illustrations brighten the book's pages.

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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Languages

  • English

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