Barbara R. (Crop4Fun) reviewed on 11/15/2005 + 1217 more book reviews

This was Dave Barry's first fiction novel and I thought it was great. Very funny in typical Dave Barry style. I got the audio from the library and parts made me laugh so hard while driving I almost had to pull over for safety reasons. Probably not appropriate for younger children but great for teens and up (my older teen daughter also loves Dave Barry's humor).
Plot synopsis (copied from Amazon) - Dave Barry, the only newsman to win a Pulitzer for exemplary use of words like booger, will please humor and crime-fiction fans alike with this racy debut novel. The scene is Miami. In ritzy Coconut Grove, the teen son of Eliot, a newsman turned adman, sneaks up to spritz a cute girl with a Squirtmaster 9000 to win a high school game called Killer. Meanwhile, two hit men sneak up to kill the girl's abusive stepdad, Arthur. Arthur cheated his bosses at corrupt Penultimate, Inc., which equipped a Florida jail with automatic garage-opener gates that accidentally freed prisoners in a lightning storm.

Farcical confusion ensues, witnessed by a saintly bum named Puggy, camped in a tree in Arthur's yard. Puggy works at the Jolly Jackal Bar

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