# Insane City

By Dave Barry

Profile: https://hahafiction.com/books/insane-city-ac19be32/

Seth Weinstein arrives in Miami to marry Tina, a successful lawyer. His unreliable friends are supposed to help him through the festivities, but the wedding draws them into criminal danger and encounters that no seating plan could accommodate.

## What makes it funny?

The indignities start at airport security, where Seth's friends make him the object of a public prank. Kevin also recalls relatives correcting misspelled soap at his own wedding, carving each bar by hand to fix a favor nobody wanted.

### The comedy at work

Small practical problems invite disastrous solutions. Seth’s friends keep supplying advice and teasing retorts as the wedding preparations expand into a farce involving criminal threats and a love-struck orangutan.

### Try this if…

A wedding going spectacularly wrong supplies the rude banter and criminal complications. Readers who prefer their comic characters dignified may find Seth's friends a trial.

### Good to know

Profanity and sexual humor appear early. A separate chapter follows a mother and children abandoned at sea, so the peril extends beyond wedding embarrassment.

## What to expect

- Genre: Crime & thriller
- Kind of humor: Banter · Farce
- The atmosphere: Irreverent
- Format: Novel
- Length: 400 pages
- Audiobook: Available
- Published: 2013

## Sources & further reading

- Review: [Publishers Weekly review](https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780399158681)
- Publisher: [Publisher](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/310808/insane-city-by-dave-barry)
- Reading sample: [Opening chapters](https://www.davebarry.com/pdf/insane-city-excerpt.pdf)