1. The Taming of the Screw: Several Million Homeowners’ Problems (1983)
Barry concentrates on the popular topic of home repair.

2. Stay Fit and Healthy Until You’re Dead (1985)
Fitness and vitality can be yours, writes Dave Barry– provided you have the discipline, drive, and the plain old-fashioned guts required to procure the necessary steroids. This manual may help, too, but you’ll just have to buy it and find out.

Barry on executive fitness
Today’s top executives eat teeny meals and run 10 miles and play tennis and work out every day. Of course, they’re so busy getting fit that many don’t even know where their offices are. That’s why the entire U.S. economy is now manufactured overseas.

3. Claw Your Way to the Top: How to Become Head of a Major Corporation in Roughly a Week (1986)
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In this amusing and entertaining parody of job-market and business-success books, Barry reviews the history of business (”The Middle Ages were hardly the kind of ages where anybody wanted to make any long-term business commitments”), and then explains how to get a job (”Often, a good resume can mean the difference between not getting a job and not even coming close”). From there he discusses how to do the job (”Most corporations and organizations like to start everybody out with a couple of years of taking messages”) and how to step over co-workers (”If you promote yourself to Coordinating Administrator or Administrative Coordinator, nobody will ever be able to pin an actual job responsibility on you”). Again and again he pokes fun at the bureaucratic, corporate mentality, making this an insightful, trenchant satire.
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