Dave Barry's History of the Millennium (So Far)
by Dave Barry
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Author: Dave BarryEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-09-17
ISBN: 039915437X
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: Putnam Adult
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Book Review: Not as Good as Barry's Other Work, and Ludicrous That 2001 isn't Covered at All!
Summary: 3 Stars
Unlike his fiction novels which are all brilliant Dave Barry's non fiction books do vary in quality. Most are great but some seem to be filling contract obligations with not much effort put in. History of the Millennium (So Far) is one of those weaker efforts.
For starters 2001 is not covered at all (technically the starting year of the millennium). Ridiculous! How can you have a history of the Millennium without the most media covered year of the human race's history to date included. Even if Barry didn't want to comment on the terrorist attacks, there was a heap of other stuff that happened in 2001. But why not include stuff on the terrorist attacks, when Barry has written and published elsewhere stuff on them? This doesn't make any sense, plus there's plenty of other wars, terrorist attacks and unfunny events which are covered in the years included so why not the September 11 events?
The stuff covered in the other years is very American politics heavily weighted, which is not the most interesting of subject matters. You'd think there was more interesting stuff happening around the world to cover than so much politics. As well the history of the previous millennium was pretty average writing but there were a few gems such as January 1, 1000 "marked by feasting, dancing and the public beheading of a whiny, tedious group of people who would not stop insisting that technically, the new millennium did not begin until January 1, 1001".
If this is your first Dave Barry experience, don't be put off. Dave Barry's non fiction work is mostly high quality. His adult fiction novels Tricky Business and Big Trouble are brilliant! Even his children's novels such as Peter and the Starcatchers shouldn't be missed either.
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