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Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs

by Dave Barry

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Hilarious book. You probably need to be a baby boomer, and thus remember all the crappy songs, to fully appreciate it. ( )
CasualFriday | Feb 2, 2008 |  
A great book, if you aren't prone to getting bad songs stuck in your head. It's a lot of fun to hear tales of songs that are supposedly popular that people really can't stand. ( )
nderdog | Dec 10, 2007 |  
Run, don't walk, to get this book. Despite Dave's warnings at the beginning of the book (DO NOT TURN THIS PAGE!!), read it. Ignore everyone who looks at you as though you are losing your mind as you laugh out loud every few seconds. Chase down those folks who are trying to escape you as you HAVE to read one paragraph after another out loud to them so they can see what you're laughing about!

Then try to get those songs out of your head. Those awful, horrible songs you perpetually keep buried in the deep dark recesses of your subconscious because it just HURTS to much to think about them - and once you think about them they go 'round and 'round and 'round in your head for days on end! ("Songs she sang to me, songs she brang to me...")

Says Dave, "I've never written a column that got a bigger response than the one announcing the Bad Song Survey. More than ten thousand readers voted..." This little book is the result. Dave (and his readers/survey respondents) rip up Weenie Music, Love Songs, Songs Women Really Hate, Teen Death Songs, and, ultimately, Songs People Get Wrong. I DARE you to read this and NOT laugh!

I DARE you to read this and listen to "Help Me Rhonda" without hearing "owls pukin' in (your) bed"!!!! ( )
luvs_2_read | Sep 20, 2007 |  
Dave Barry is amusing, this book is not. ( )
bookwormteri | Aug 9, 2007 |  
One of the funniest books I've ever read. ( )
tloeffler | Jul 24, 2007 |  
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Amazon.com (ISBN 0740706004, Paperback)

Dave Barry, that indefatigable yukmeister, writes terrific humor columns (never mind that they all begin to sound the same if you read him regularly). He's the funniest friend you never had. If you read his column--better yet, if you don't read his column--get your hands on a copy of The Book of Bad Songs.

Barry's style is so effortless that you can't resist quoting him. This bit is from his mock-hortatory introduction: "If you keep reading, you're going to have all kinds of bad songs waking up and creeping around inside your brain, refusing to die, just like the corpses in the movie The Night of the Living Dead ..."

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