I'll Mature When I'm Dead: Dave Barry's Amazing Tales of Adulthood

Dave Barry

May 2010 · Sold by Penguin

About this ebook

I'll Mature When I'm Dead is the New York Times bestseller from "the funniest man in America" (New York Times). Let Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist and nationally unrecognized voice of maturity Dave Barry make the journey to adulthood a little easier—and a lot funnier.

Not everyone has to be dragged kicking and screaming through adulthood. Dave Barry will help through this process—with his hilarious takes on parenting, changing self-image, the battle of the sexes, technology, health care, celebrityhood, and even vampires!

Ratings and reviews

His description of American health care and his exploits in Hollywood, including his original screenplay, are all hilarious. The story of his colonoscopy was not so funny, only because I am the kind of chicken that will never have one, unless forced to. His little reward would never get me to do it. The only other complaint I have about Dave's perspective is that he seems to think that all men are truly hooked on women's gazoombas, or whatever he calls them (to avoid censorship?). He may be so enthralled, along with maybe 60% of other men, but he forgets that there are men enamored with women's gazambas far more than their gazoombas. You know where I stand on that one. I know the psychoanalysts have a term for it but I'm not going to put it here. Dave never talks about these kind of men, although he did have a severely flatulent women play a big part in his most recent novel, Tricky Business. She has big gazoombas.

About the author

From 1983 to 2004, Dave Barry wrote a weekly humor column for The Miami Herald, which in 1988 won a Pulitzer Prize for Commentary. He is the author of more than thirty books, including such bestsellers as the nonfiction Live Right and Find Happiness (Although Beer Is Much Faster), You Can Date Boys When You're Forty, and I'll Mature When I'm Dead; the novels Big Trouble, Tricky Business, and Insane City; the very successful YA Peter Pan novels (with Ridley Pearson); and his Christmas story The Shepherd, the Angel, and Walter the Christmas Miracle Dog. Two of his books--Big Trouble and Dave Barry's Guide to Guys--have been turned into movies. For a while, his life was even a television series, Dave's World, but then it was canceled. The series. Not the life. For many years, Dave was also a guitarist with the late, infamous, and strangely unlamented band the Rock Bottom Remainders.