Title: Big TroubleAuthor: Dave Barry
Pages: 292
Genre: Comedy / Thriller
Series: Stand Alone
Synopsis: Dave Barry makes his fiction debut with a ferociously funny novel of love and mayhem in south Florida.
Review: This book had me laughing out loud while sitting on the edge of my seat, waiting to see what happened next. There are so many great characters. Puggy, the homeless drunk who works at a bar run by Russian gun runners and who just happens to fall in love with a housemaid named Nina. Nina is an illegal alien of Hispanic descent and she loves Puggy back. Then, we have Eliot, the failing advertising agent whose ex-wife is getting a little tired of him being behind on his support checks. Eliot falls in love with Anna, who is married to a man who may be the largest ass in the continental United States. Seriously, the list goes on but I won't give the other truly hilarious people away.
Add to the great cast a suitcase sized nuclear bomb, an airplane, and some goats and the story just gets funnier and scarier. It holds onto the laughs and the nail biting until the very end, all at the same time. Set in Miami, it is just about the perfect book to sit down with and finish in an afternoon (at the beach, even!). It took me longer than that but that's my fault.
I have just realized this book was made into a movie with Tim Allen starring as Eliot. Oh, I am absolutely going to watch it! I'll wait a while though because it cannot possibly be as good as this book was.
Rating: 10 / 10
I've seen the movie, and no, it's nowhere near as good as the book. It's okay, but part of the fun of a Dave Barry book is his descriptions of what's going on, and those are missing here. See the movie, yes, but don't expect the belly laughs you got from the book.
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