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See more books from this AuthorFrom here events get even goofier, as the two opponents land in Cuba (and co-lead a revolution), then go to Mozambique (and are captured by pirates), thence to Yemen (where they are rescued by the Mossad), afterwards to Beijing (and lead a protest in Tiananmen Square), and finally to California, ...
Dec 01 2011 | Read Full Review of LunaticsHumorists Barry (Tricky Business) and Zweibel (The Other Shulman) team up to spin the madcap adventure of Philip Horkman and Jeffrey A. Peckerman, who meet on the soccer pitch of a Fort Lee, N.J., gir
Dec 12 2011 | Read Full Review of Lunatics“After his ‘retirement’ from the newspaper in 2005, Mr. Barry set out to write books. In Lunatics he has partnered with the well-known television writer Alan Zweibel. The result is a book that borders on strange: full of complex and improbable plot twists.”
Jan 10 2012 | Read Full Review of LunaticsDave Barry and Alan Zweibel have teamed up to write what may be the funniest, most off-the-wall buddy book in recent history.
Jan 12 2012 | Read Full Review of LunaticsDave Barry’s first novel for adults, Big Trouble, had everything necessary to prompt a big-screen adaptation: young love, hitmen, unwitting and bumbling fighting families, the threat of nuclear war, and a mid-flight airplane explosion for a climax.
Jan 25 2012 | Read Full Review of LunaticsIn his popular books and newspaper columns, Dave Barry displays such a zany wit that on the rare occasions he’s being serious he actually has to specify, “I am not making this up.” Paragraph after paragraph, his columns are laugh-out-loud funny.
Jan 12 2012 | Read Full Review of LunaticsWhile Barry's Peckerman is of necessity less nuanced (a relative term when applied to a broad farce such as this) than Zweibel's Horkman, Barry does get to unleash the gross jokes and entertaining curses.
Jan 22 2012 | Read Full Review of LunaticsPhilip, the calm optimist and recycler, and Jeffrey, the bombastic rage-aholic and slob (whose sloppy habits will be horrifically revealed) are also lunatics who meet on the soccer field.
Jan 06 2012 | Read Full Review of LunaticsSure, it’s a truly enjoyable work of absurd fiction that deftly ridicules the war on terror and the American political system.
Feb 07 2012 | Read Full Review of LunaticsAn aggregated and normalized score based on 320 user ratings from iDreamBooks & iTunes