Dave Barry in Cyberspace |  | Author: Dave Barry
Creator: Shadoe Stevens
Publisher: Audio Literature
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ISBN: 0787112534
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ASIN: 0787112534
Publication Date: September 1996
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Amazon.com Review
Trust Dave Barry, middle-class America's chronicler of the absurdities and inanities of daily life, to provide the authoritative funnyman's guide to life with computers. Barry is sometimes insightful, as when he notes the ridiculous number of keystrokes needed to actually write something, often hilarious, as in his sendup of technological support hotlines, and occasionally genuinely indignant. This book is the perfect gift for anyone who, like many of us, can't live with computers and can't live without them.
Product Description
In previous books he's done Japan, turned forty, and plumbed the "black holes" of home ownership. Now Dave Barry boots up, logs on, and invites millions of readers to laugh out loud as he undertakes a hard drive down the information superhighway.
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 :-D == (laugh-out-loud funny) November 6, 2006
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Now that Dave Barry has alerted me to the fact that Bill Gates wears a zucchini in his shorts, I will never be afraid of cyberspace again. Hahahahahaha...Oops, I'd better use an emoticon here if I want to be cybercool:
:-D == (a person laughing so hard he or she does not realize that a zucchini is sticking out of his or her pants).
Thanks to Dave, I can now display my feelings online, although I'm not certain how I'm going to work in his emoticon, "person who is none too pleased to be giving birth to a squirrel." Before reading this book, communicating with me via the internet was like trying to strike up a casual conversation with Lieutenant Data. I didn't have a clue about all of those nifty acronyms my friends were inserting into their 'instant messages'. I thought ROTFL had something to do with burying fish heads in the corn field and IMHO was an admission of sexual promiscuity.
I also found out why my boss religiously attends the Comdex convention (Dave calls it 'Geek-O-Rama' and 'Nerdstock in the Desert') in Las Vegas every fall. It has a lot less to do with amazing, futuristic hardware and geeky souvenir tee-shirts than it does with the AdultDex convention down the street.
In the midst of this author's signature adolescent humor about hard-drives, bytes and mega-ram, he uncharacteristically inserts a tender internet love story. Frankly it made me a bit uneasy--rather like watching a Three Stooges movie, and just as Mo is ready to whack Curly over the head with a platypus, the Pope suddenly appears and launches into a homily about family values. It didn't work because I wasn't prepared to stop laughing and segue into tender empathy for two middle-aged losers.
Please Dave, stick to your booger jokes, at least in books with your picture on the cover.
Better than you'd expect August 27, 2006
This fine humorist tackled a subject that's been done to death and probably sold a whole lot of books doing it because he happens to be Dave Barry. A readable effort, but not a lot of belly laughs. However, there are two chapters where he decided to abandon the humor and go for realism. The result was some surprisingly moving fiction that mirrors life, quite unlike anything else I've read by Dave Barry. I haven't checked the timeline, but this is the guy who abandoned his humor column to be a novelist, and who improves which each novel. I got this at a book swap in Hangzhou, so for me it was definitely worth it. For the book-buying American, I have no idea.
Entertaining even when a decade old! July 19, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A. You have to like Dave Barry's style of humor.
B. You really have to know something about computers (old ones using Windows 95 more appropriate than you can imagine!).
C. If an Apple user, you must have at LEAST a friend who has complained to you about PCs.
Good book with lots of humor. A few pages rated PG-13 for language (if you know Dave Barry's work, it won't surprise you). This is a good book to drop into a time capsule (Time Capsule seems a good name for a rock band).
 My two cents May 25, 2006
Well, everybody and his dog has already reviewed Dave Barry in Cyberspace, but I had to throw my two cents in: Thanks, Dave, for coining the term "WGU" (Whirring Grinding Unit). Now everybody I know who uses a computer uses that term. Congratulations on making the already over-wordy English language one word wordier - it's a word we desperately needed.
Dave Barry Never Disappoints... February 2, 2006
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book, as all others by Dave Barry, is definitely good for lots of laughs. The only shortcoming of "Cyberspace" is that it was written quite a few years back and as a result comes across as a bit dated, due to the topic's rapid and continual evolution. All in all, this book is still pretty darn funny, and I would recommend it if you're in need of a chuckle.
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