Become a better person, impress your friends and make Dave Barry richer this Christmas holiday

Now that the semester is coming to a close and everyone has an abundance of both time and money, it seems so very appropriate to review a book about how to deal with all of that money (and account for a little bit of that time).\nDave Barry's "Money Secrets: Like: Why Is There a Giant Eyeball on the Dollar?" is a typical Dave Barry book. It has moments of guffaw interspersed with I've-seen-better humor. But it is hard to put down. After all, how often do you find a book that includes a metaphor comparing the World's Largest Cheeto and Donald Trump's hair, or that points out the numerous similarities between Punxsutawney Phil and Alan Greenspan?\nThe book includes chapters such as "How to Get a Job" and "A Guide to Tipping," both of which are ultra-essential to college students pondering graduation (no, not the real world!) or traveling somewhere besides their parents' basements (even though the rent is so low and the meal plan sure beats the dorms!). And the answers to the questions are definitely not the same droll responses one would find in other humor magazines such as Harper's and The Wall Street Journal.\nIs the book worth reading? Even considering the attention span of most college students during the winter break, I would say yes. It is a book that you can pick up, read for three minutes, have something resembling a good laugh and then go back to your passion: napping. And if you make it through the book and someone asks how you spent your break, you can impress them by saying that you read up on financial planning. Don't worry. Unless your friends are in the business school, they won't ask you to elaborate. They'll just be impressed by your desire to improve yourself when all they did was nap and ponder giant Cheetos.\nOh, and the giant eyeball on the dollar bill? Just as we expected, it was chosen because the second choice was a fish playing tennis, and that would be downright silly. But it's a pretty good name for a band.