Dave Barry. Live Right and Find Happiness. New York: Putnam, 2015. Print.

This is going to be a short review because I was too easily distracted reading this book. Dave Barry is one of the funniest writers around. Live Right and Find Happiness is ostensibly written to his fourteen-year-old daughter about safe driving, sports, and how to live a fulfilling life. I lost track at the number of times I laughed out loud reading this book. As I write this, my wife is reading it and I hear guffaws coming from her direction occasionally.

Live Right and Find Happiness does contain some scatological language, but it mostly features Barry’s typical humor style—hyperbole. Good hyperbole always has an element of truth in it. So, for example, he tell us that when his daughter was two and joined him watching American football on television she said:

When the teams lines up: “Ready!”
When the ball is snapped: “Fall down!”

Read this and have a lot of fun—especially if there is a specific sport you hate (he nails all the biggies) or you have your doubts about either the news media or the Russians. Who doesn’t?