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Summary: For those who appreciate the absurd
Review: The first half of the book is good reading if you appreciate the absurdities of life. If you struggled to fit in (or struggled keep from it), you will appreciate his scenarios.
The second half is brilliantly funny. His experiences with the French language had me in tears and gasping for breath.
Even as a straight, married, parent of two young children, I can identify with (and laugh at) what the author goes through.
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Summary: Depressing and Offensive
Review: I know Sedaris from his work at NPR. On radio he can be funny, but reading about his empty and sad life was depressing. Sedaris'claim that meth harms no one was offensive and flat out wrong. Meth has absolutely devastated many individuals, families, and small towns in the Western USA. Meth labs are also an environmental disaster with toxic chemicals being dumped into landfills all over the West.
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Summary: This book made me happy...
Review: Enough has been said about this book that I don't really need to tell you I laughed out loud constantly, or that Sedaris has mastered that rare feat of being funny AND literary all in the same book. My only regret is that I didn't get this on audiotape so I could hear him reading these himself... Sedaris' own voice lends a unique dimension to all his stories. Looking forward to experiencing more great stuff from him!
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Summary: ha.
Review: better than his other books. i thought naked was boring and weird, a little self indulgent. this is really funny and interesting. stories about his dad are both funny and touching, and the essay about his brother the rooster is classic. check it out.
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Summary: I didn't catch you talk pretty one day...-.-;
Review: First of all, props to Sedaris for revealing so much about his life.... It wouldn't have been easy. Especially about his dark days when he abused drugs and what not. When I picked up this book, I saw all the quotes of reviews on and insides the book. The reviews were very favorable. They all said that this book is so funny that you won't stop laughing. I guess it wouldn't be a lie if I said that I decided to read this book solely on the reviews. Maybe that was my mistake. Maybe I just didn't get what Sedaris was talking about. The book did have some clever and funny parts. But I didn't think that the book lived up to my expectations.
Me talk pretty one day actually pretty easy to read. I liked how Sedaris did not use big fancy words to impress who knows what? Oh, I appreciated how he talked about the drugs he had used. It was as if I was right next to him when he was high. Naturally, I promised again to myself that I really shouldn't touch any drugs.
Even though his stories can get very strange, Sedaris does a very good job in painting a picture in readers' minds of what is going on in his life.
The part of the book I enjoyed most was his childhood life. His odd interpretation of the world was very interesting and also hilarious. But I was disappointed as the story went on.
I recommend this book to anyone who is open minded about life. This book is amusing and makes you appreciate YOUR LIFE! When you read this book, you just compare your life with Sedaris's and you will thank God you're not David Sedaris.
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Summary: Rip-roarer!
Review: Although I struggled through the first few pages, I soon found myself laughing, crying and ROFL (rolling on the floor laughing) during Sedaris' descriptions of his life, his family and his travels (in France). HIGH MARKS to this one. Recommended for anyone who enjoys an irreverant journey through one man's life experience.
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Summary: The funniest thing I've ever read...
Review: Although I will say right away that Sedaris's humor is probably not for everyone, if you like his brand of sarcasm, this is the book for you. "Jesus Shaves" had me and my husband snorting with laughter as we tried to tell each other our favorite lines from the chapter. And Sedaris's stint as an inept writing instructor will be appreciated by anyone who has sat through a writing workshop and wondered about the person teaching it. Wonderful, hilarious, intelligent. Can't wait to read his other stuff.
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Summary: Bitterness is funny?
Review: I received this book and, given all the positive publicity, was anxious and excited to read it. However, I put it down after struggling through half of it, vowing not to finish it. Why? Because hidden beneath Sedaris' sarcastic, cynical approach to humor appears to be a bitterness against people, the world - life in general. Sure, if you like laughing at others, I suppose you would enjoy this book. He reminds me of a cynical, sarcastic Woody Allen. Using humor to basically say "See how smart I am? I'm making fun of YOU, the AVERAGE person, and you don't even know it!". Bitterness is not funny - it's just plain ugly.
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Summary: David Rocks...
Review: Good, but slightly repetitive of his previous works. A recommend nonetheless. J>
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Summary: Real life phantasy and fun
Review: This enjoyable work of autobiography is always fun and fequently very funny. It is a collection of short pieces that appeared elsewhere individually before being compiled into this delightful book. Sedaris talks about his early childhood, adolescence, and the other stages of his life in which he collects all kinds of experience. The experiences in themselves are mostly unremarkable but the author has a talent for filtering them through his idiosyncratic view of life and transforming them into interesting situations that are worth writing about and very much worth reading. His tone is usually a self depecating stance, but sometimes he switches to playful arrogance. In both cases he hits the mark. He is born to an Orthodox father (a computer genius when computers were still largely unknown) and a Protestant mother. He has a bunch of sisters (one of them very attractive) and a foul-mouthed but good-hearted brother. He studies art and gets a job teaching, for which he considered himself eminently unsuited, and probably was. He works at menial jobs in New York. He does drugs and engages in promiscuous sex. But then he finds a boyfriend and the two of them rebuild and refurbish an old fallen down house in France and live in the village where it is located. The second part of the book covers his attempts to learn French while he is living in the village and in Paris. He actually enrolls in a language school and offers many delightful anecdotes from his classes. Sharing Sedaris' cockeyed view of life makes for an excellent read.
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