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Summary: insanely delightful
Review: This latest book by David Sedaris is a scream. One of the wittiest & humorous writers of our time. A must read.
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Summary: haven't finished it, but HAD to write a review!!!!!
Review: As I mentioned, I haven't finished the book yet!! I don't need to, to write a review!! this book is hilarious!! I was recommended David Sedaris by a friend who was reading Naked, and we have taken turns reading chapters out loud to each other. I would be at work reading to myself, and my boss had to ask me what was making me crack up so much!!! I don't normally laugh out loud when reading a book, but he is great!! not only is he funny, he writes the words in a way that you can hear his voice (even if you have never heard him speak before) .. my favorite so far is the essay about his french class! I highly recommend this book!
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Summary: David Has Done It Again...
Review: As a close follower of David's work, I was thrilled to hear he had another tape out. I have listened to all of his others and never tire of his humor. This tape is centered more around David and his partner, Hugh, and their lives in New York and Paris. I prefer the stories about his family, but these are satisfying as well. Highly recommend....
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Summary: Laugh til you cry funny
Review: Between him and his sister Amy, this has to be one of the funniest families ever. Part of the reason I bought the book was in the hopes to discover what their parents did to make them so funny. But it seems after reading it that it has to do more with Genetic luck than any environmental circumstances. Oh well.My parental hopes aside, this is so funny. I couldn't read it at night because I would wake my wife up with my laughter. The essay on his brother is worth the price of the book alone. People here seem to have a higher opinion of Naked, so if it's better than this, which would suprise me, I can't wait to read it.
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Summary: "Laugh out loud" - funny
Review: "Me Talk Pretty One Day" is a series of short stories about David Sedaris. His childhood, his different jobs, his family and - my favorite- when he moved to France, and tried to learn French. I love the story of his childhood, how he due to his lisp becomes a kid with an outstanding vocabulary (to avoid words starting with "s"), the story of his artistic career, and also his brother - "The rooster". But his story about moving to France and trying to learn French is amongst the absolute best. I can perfectly well relate to his frustration trying to learn another language. I have done something quite similar, I went to Ecuador to study Spanish with only 7 words in my vocabulary (the numbers 1-4, thank you, please and Merry Christmas) so I found those chapters absolute hilarious. My favourite is when he is having trouble with singular/plural and to circumvent this he always buys more than one, no matter what it is. His boyfriend is getting upset about this and I love Sedaris' comment "Just wait until he sees the *CD-players* I have bought for his birthday"... I have not read many books that have made me laugh as much as this one has. To my surprise, Sedaris and his story kept me completely hooked for the 270 pages. This book makes you laugh - laugh out loud!
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Summary: sooooooooo funny
Review: I have about 20 pages left and I don't want it to end so I'm procrastinating by writing this instead. This book is a series of essays about Dave's different jobs, his childhood, his family and -- the absolute best -- his stories about moving to France and trying to learn French. Maybe because I also took French and visited France with a very small grasp of the language did I find those chapters in particular quite hysterical. Also I live in NY and his stories about NY and the tourists (especially around Christmas) are quite true and very funny to me personally. This is my first Sedaris book and I fear I may run out and buy all of his books and try to read them all too quickly -- better to space them out over a few months and make them last. There are some short chapters so if you're not sure if you want to buy this read a few chapters in the bookstore and then come back and buy it on amazon for cheaper if you liked it. I read the first couple pages and decided I would like this book and I was correct. I had to leave the library today because I was the only one laughing and I looked just a teeny bit insane. Better to read in the privacy of your own home!
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Summary: Not gripping, but a fun read
Review: I rather liked this book, though the humor wasn't consistent throughout. Several chapters were laugh out loud funny (for instance, the descriptions of David's french lessons) but large sections of the book in between were only moderately amusing. He certainly has lead an interesting life.
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Summary: He write better book one day!?!
Review: Normally I write fairly long reviews, but for this book it's pretty simple, so I'll keep it short. David Sedaris is at times very funny (the scene where he and his classmates attempt to explain Easter in French to a Muslim from Morocco is absolutely hilarious), but at other times it's like he's straining too hard, or maybe he just ran out of good material. In one case he LITERALLY resorts to toilet humor (his desperate efforts to flush someone else's giant turd down the drain) for a cheap laugh. Overall, if you want some really funny moments, interspersed by long stretches of -- at best -- mild amusement, then buy this book. If not, don't, and instead wait until David Sedaris "write better book one day!"
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Summary: Literally, laugh out loud funny
Review: How many times have you read a review on the jacket sleeve of a book that coins the phrase "laugh out loud funny", you bought the book, and then wondered if you had missed the section of the book referred to has "laugh out loud funny"? Well, this is truly a book that will make you laugh out loud. It took several chapters, but starting with "You Can't Kill the Rooster" and continuing on for several more chapters I couldn't help but laugh as though I were watching a comedy movie in the theater. Although the book tends to trail off near the end, the middle portion is well worth the investment. Irreverent, honest, poignant, enrapturing ... all descriptives that capture this book. I was taken in from the first page and didn't let go until I was finished.
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Summary: Disappointing compared to "Naked"
Review: With his latest book I got the distinct impression that David Sedaris had run out of amusing episodes in his own past to write about other than a few things that were clearly from the bottom of the barrel. So a lot of the book is written about experiences he has had since becoming a well known writer and there is a "gosh aren't I unique in my way of life and attitude" aspect to these that just isn't endearing in the way that his self view from Naked and Barrel Fever were. A good part of the attempted humor is his restructuring into English of conversations he and others had in the process of learning French. Funny for the first paragraph, but gets old quickly because it is such a blatantly manipulative humorous device. Coming to this book alone I would have given it 3 stars, but having enjoyed Naked and Barrel Fever so much, points off for disappointment in light of high expectations. . .
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