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Big Trouble

Author:
Dave Barry
Read by:
Dick Hill
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Book
39
Narrator
5
Release Date
January 1, 2012
Duration
3 hours 2 minutes
Summary
In his career, Dave Barry has done just about everything—written bestselling nonfiction, won a Pulitzer Prize, seen his life turned into a television series. And now, at last, he has joined the long list of literary figures from Jane Austen to Tolstoy who have made the transition from humor columnist to novelist—and done it with a style and inventiveness that establishes that, yes, he is very good at that, too.In the city of Coconut Grove, Florida, these things happen: A struggling adman named Eliot Arnold drives home from a meeting with the Client From Hell. His teenage son, Matt, fills his Squirtmaster 9000 for his turn at a high school game called Killer. Matt's intended victim, Jenny Herk, sits down in front of the TV with her mom for what she hopes will be a peaceful evening—for once. Jenny's alcoholic and secretly embezzling stepfather, Arthur, emerges from the maid's room, angry at being rebuffed—again. Henry and Leonard, two hit men from New Jersey, pull up to the Herks' house for a real game of Killer—Arthur's embezzlement apparently not having been quite so secret to his employers after all. And a homeless man named Puggy settles down for the night in a treehouse just inside the Herks' yard.In a few minutes, a chain of events that will change the lives of each and every one of them will begin, and will leave some of them wiser, some of them deader, and some of them definitely looking for a new line of work. With a wicked wit, razor-sharp observations, rich characters, and a plot with more twists than the Inland Waterway, Dave Barry makes his debut a complete and utter triumph.
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Profile Avatar Suzy C. Jul 2024

This was a fun and clever little story. It kept me entertained.

Profile Avatar Jimb J. Jun 2024

I know I'm late to the party, but this short book was hilarious. Non-stop action and humor throughout with brilliant narration. Now I need to find the ancient movie that was made of this!

Profile Avatar Mendel G. Jun 2024

An insane romp by one of the funniest humorists of this or any century, Dave Barry. Though it shows its age ( 1999), it is funny as anything, especially when he takes up the chaos and insanity that is South Florida. I personally could have done without the 4-letter words.but they didn't stop me from laughing out loud several times.

Big Trouble

Big Trouble

Author: Dave Barry
Read by: Dick Hill
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