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Amazon.com Review Dave describes the dark side of tourism with such comical precision that you'll wonder why you ever bother to leave the safety of your living room. For my money, nobody has ever produced a better snapshot of the Baggage Carousel, ''where passengers traditionally gather at the end of a flight to spend several relaxing hours watching the arrival of luggage from some other flight, which comes randomly spurting out of a mysterious troll-infested tunnel that is apparently connected to another airport, possibly in a different dimension.'' From Publishers Weekly A distinctly minor effort by the Miami Herald columnist and author of such previous successes as Dave Barry's Greatest Hits , this guide works too hard for comic effect. There are strained references to inedible airline food, a ''Five Booger'' ranking from the ''Michelin Guide to How Snotty a Restaurant Is,'' Chicago as ''The City with a Great Big Butt.'' There are tired gags, one involving the translation of a phrase about ''the fish of your brother Raoul'' and another about using the same map for downtown Vienna, London and Berlin. But the book is not completely devoid of laughs: ''Akron: Meeting Yesterday'

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Author

Barry, Dave

Publisher

Random House, Incorporated

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9780449907597

Category

humor

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Travel

Rating

3.77 / 5 (3,493 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14