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Summary: Laugh out loud enjoyment
Review: I highly recommend this book to anyone who needs an introduction to David Sedaris' work. This collection is, perhaps, my favorite (although Naked runs a close second). I'm going to get the audio also just so I can hear him tell the stories. No matter how bizarre or how awful the people are with whom he interacts, Sedaris manages to find the seed of humanity and that is refreshing.
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Summary: Okay, my first mistake...
Review: was taking this often hysterical (if uneven) collection of essays with me to jury duty.Judges seem to hate it when a juror laughs out loud for no apparent reason...until the judge is familair with the wonderful David Sedaris.No doubt many reviewers will say that the first half of the book, which deals mainly with David and his father, is much more amusing than Part deux, which deals primarily with his life as the village idiot in France. Pay little attention. The second half pales ONLY because the first part of the book is practically flawless. My personal favorite is the chapter in which David's sister Amy (now seen on the Comedy Central Show "Strangers With Candy") comes home for Christmas wear half a fat suit, driving their father crazy. Laugh-out-loud funny! Sedaris is an amazingly truthful writer. If he views the world, his family harshly, its only because he values them so much. Throughout these stories, you find a sense of wonderment and joy (well, maybe not so much with the giant turd piece, but still...)
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Summary: Thank God For David Sedaris
Review: I hope David Sedaris lives, and writes, for a long, long time. Unfortunately for him, this may require that he give up smoking.
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Summary: Sedaris Fans Will Be Pleased
Review: This was Mink's favorite Sedaris book since B.F. The writer is at his prime, his voice never more confident, his wit never sharper. And the whole Paris thing is wonderful material for him to work with. Rich, I suppose, is the word Mink is looking for. Mink still feels that the little elf story is his best story ever.
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Summary: "You Can't Kill The Rooster"
Review: This collection contains what may be the funniest piece Sedaris has yet written, "You Can't Kill the Rooster." It's about David's feisty, incredibly foul-mouthed brother and the touching relationship he has with their father. The first time I read it I nearly killed myself laughing (Paul Sedaris sounds like Daffy Duck crossed with a hardcore rapper.) Pure greatness.
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Summary: Better when he reads it...
Review: You don't get the same feeling when you read the lines to the Oscar Mayer song in the style of Billie Holliday. You can hear these hilarious stories exactly as he would like for you to. This tape collection is laugh-out-loud, wreck-your-car FUNNY! The story about his sister Amy made me wet my pants!
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Summary: Do not read in public!
Review: Unless you don't mind people staring at you while you laugh so hard you spill your mocha frappachino on your lap. This is the most delightful, funny book I have read in years. If you haven't heard David Sedaris on NPR then you are missing a wonderful experience.
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Summary: He Write Good Now
Review: Sedaris, the reluctant francophile, has written another succinct and funny volume of vignettes. It's a delightful, though slim, read.
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Summary: It's so funny...
Review: Like another reviewer, I regret having read it so fast. It's another fabulously funny book by one of our world's truly original voices. He's just so funny and odd and wonderful. The chapters about France were especially interesting. He's very playful with language and culture. I look forward to reading it again, and taking my time to savor.
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Summary: Can't stop laughing
Review: Simply the funiest man alive!
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