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Summary: AaaaahaaaaA....haaaahaaaahaaaaA......
Review: Verry funny! I bought this book at the Seatac airport on my way to NYC...My first trip there since 'the disaster.' This book had me chuckling like a crazy women for 1000's of miles, taking the nervous edge off of my cross country flight (although i am not so sure how comforting this was for the stranger sitting next to me). I am now reading it a 2nd time, ordered 2 copies from Amazon for friends and the audio version for myself...I've also purchased all Sedaris' other books. So far this one is the funniest, but i adore them all. This guy is a hoot and he is smart. Highly recommend. ciao, Laurie in Alaska
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Summary: HILARIOUS!!!
Review: This book is so funny! Many times I laughed until I cried and had to put the book down because my sides were splitting!
His writing is amazing and the way he tells stories is even better than that.
A must-read for everyone!!
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Summary: Rib Splitting Laughter....Literally !
Review: After breaking three ribs on a vacation boating accident, I was layed up at home for a few days. I had picked up "Me Talk Pretty One Day" a few weeks prior after recognizing the name Sedaris as being the brother of Amy Sedaris. I was skeptical at first, as I am not a big fan of short stories or "essays".How wrong I was! After reading the first few chapters of this book, I realized that I had to wait awhile before I could continue! Every page I read had me laughing so hard it hurt too much to read on! It was literally side splitting! Now that I'm feeling a bit better and have finished "Me Talk Pretty", I've just purchased "Barrel Fever" and ordered "Holidays On Ice". All I can hope for is that Mr. Sedaris is busy on his next book because I'm almost healed and ready for more!
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Summary: Boring, predictable, how strange am I?
Review: Maybe it's just because I think too much like David Sedaris, but I didn't find his stories humorous. I saw the punchlines coming. It could be my internal tendencies towards homosexuality which I vehemently deny, especially to my girlfriend. It could be that I'm a southern libertarian yearning for the simpler days like those found in "Run with the Horseman" which had me rolling (and alternately crying), though I'm not political. If you want twists, read some of Roald Dahl's short stories. If you want funny morals, read Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, or even better the Memoirs of Casanova). If you want contemporary intellectual humor, read David Foster Wallace (I haven't finished Infinite Jest because I have yet to find it minimally giggly (too tongue in cheek, ala Catch-22) but it is intellectual and it's supposed to be funny. Sure, I chuckled a few times here and there but nothing caused me to lose my composure and laugh loud enough to embarass myself in public. The text was too big, the book was too short, and the writing too simple. If you are determined to read this, save your cash and check it out of the library.
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Summary: Funny
Review: I saw this book at a glance and picked it up cause i like the cover. I thought it was one of those inspirational kinda thing but the first few pages were totally different. Definitely funny, especially the part where in they were trying to cure his speech and the idiocracies of his dad. Recomended it to my friends and they found it amusing too. A little judgmental at times.
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Summary: One of the funniest books ever.
Review: I have read this book dozens of times and I still laugh EVERY SINGLE TIME I read it. How anyone's life could be that messed up and they still survive to adulthood is beyond me, but I for one am glad that David Sedaris has had a bizzare life.
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Summary: Never Laughed Harder
Review: Honestly, I blew my favorite Fume' Blanc through my nose! I've never laughed harder, nor related more to anything I've ever read. I called friends and family to read them entire chapters at the time in order to share and relive the hysteria! David Sedaris covers everything from the exotic quirks of our parents (though most of us may never repeat them,) to the bizarre fears, desperate attempts to conform and be excepted by the masses that none of us "really" identify with anyway, though we pretend. My most favorite thing about David Sedaris can only be appreciated if you've ever heard him talk. Reading this, I could hear the rhythm with which he speaks, with the enticing nasally pauses that kept me swinging impatiently from word to word, bracing for my next laugh! I could relate page to page and no one could have told it better!
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Summary: one of the funniest books I've read
Review: This is how funny this book is. I had read it 2, maybe 3 times before I ever attempted to read any part of it out loud to anyone. It's so funny I still couldn't make it past about the third paragraph without having to stop reading because I was laughing so hard. I stopped every other paragraph throughout, choking and snorting and gasping with laughter. Really it was a shameful performance on my part. But this isn't the best indicator of how funny the book is. What should really tell you how funny the book is is that even though mine was not exactly a smooth or even fully comprehensible reading, my listener still laughed. A lot. These essays are amazing. At times I thought that Sedaris has just had an unusually funny life filled with strange characters, that he has better material than the rest of us. But then I thought, shoot, I've taken language classes and spent time in a country where I didn't speak the language, and I didn't get even one really good story out of it. It takes talent to have seen the humor in many of these experiences, and talent to have preserved that humor on the page. Throughout the book Sedaris makes much of his drug-addled brain and mediocre intelligence, but he's clearly a genius. I'm reading it for about the fifth time now, and I'm still laughing too loud.
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Summary: Laughed Out Loud...light and very entertaining.
Review: When my friend lent me this book, I really needed some light reading. Returning from a week long trip of taking care of a terminally ill family member, getting bronchitis, and the trade center bombing, I needed some humor on my plane ride back home. Being sick, extremely tired, and nervous, I found myself laughing out loud on the plane, to the point where I thought the people around me might think I was going nuts...I finally had to confess the book was so funny. David Sedaris has a great way of picking out the small things in our lives and making them very funny. They are endearing, I very much enjoyed this book.
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Summary: Excellent and hilarious!
Review: Im only halfway through this book, but already, I can't
wait to finish it and read his others. I am very
excited to learn Mr Sedaris had several other books!
Very funny, love it.
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