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Summary: Great Vacation Book
Review: I bought this for a beach vacation where I wanted to relax and enjoy my day. This book was perfect! It was a no-brainer book that made me smile. Since I'd never read a Sedaris book before, I didn't know what to expect. The book was filled with many stories starting while he was a child and funny things that happens with children and their families (well maybe not most families), and then moved into his college and adult life. I particularly enjoyed the stories he wrote about speaking French... the shopping experiences in France while trying to figure out an objects gender was too funny. I must say this book was a pleasant surprise.
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Summary: Warning: Do Not Read This While Operating Heavy Machinery
Review: I get the majority of my reading done at the gym, and ME TALK PRETTY ONE DAY took my cardio to a whole other level: breathless choking! Now I know the literal meaning of the saying "I almost died laughing!"
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Summary: Reading Sedaris is like eating chocolate: a guilty pleasure
Review: Reading David Sedaris or listening to him on NPR feels like a guilty pleasure. He's just so funny that it seems somehow wrong to enjoy his take on life so much. But enjoy him I do. It could be his scathing humor, his bizarre family or fascinating life. Sedaris is a great essayist with an eye for the minute and ridiculous and the ability to tell funny, interesting, thought provoking stories of daily life.
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Summary: Such an outrageous sense of humor...
Review: David Sedaris makes me laugh. I first heard him reading "The Santaland Diaries" on my local NPR radio station and I was hooked. This book is another one that you can dip into now and again and sample the varying products of Sedaris' offbeat sense of humor. Here he talks about the rigors of learning French (in France), and my favorite story is his description of trying to explain Easter customs in the US (in French) to people from other countries who are also learning French. A classic!
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Summary: You can't kill the rooster
Review: This book is one of the funniest books I've ever read. I had heard the author read his account of being an elf on NPR. Even though that story is not in here, this book did not let me down in any way. After I picked it up, I couldn't put it down. I read it straight through except for one break for sleep. If you like funny stories about a guy not fitting in, you should definitely read this book.
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Summary: Absolutely Hilarious
Review: Oh how I would love to meet David Sedaris. Other than Dave Barry, I have not read a book that has made me laugh so hard I cried. Mr. Sedaris can find humor in the most mundane and he makes ordinary people extraordinary. His storytelling ability is not to be rivaled. I almost felt like I was watching him in Paris. I can't wait to read the rest of his books, but this one will be hard to beat!!!
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Summary: I HATED IT!
Review: This is clearly not my type of humor. I thought it was sad and pathetic. Hated it!
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Summary: Don't read this in public, you might embarrass yourself!
Review: This is one funny book! I was reading it in bed one night and my laughter kept waking my husband. When David and his partner hit France the laughs are almost non-stop. If you need a good guffaw this should do it.
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Summary: Take time to laugh about life and about yourself
Review: I often wanted aspects of my life put into a book or on television and I always suspected that I was being watched at times, now I know I was. David Sadaris has captured pieces of all of our lives in his book ME TALK PRETTY ONE DAY. Sadaris sense of humor and life's experiences are ones to be envyed and enjoyed. He openinly shares those life lessons which at the time were hard to learn but in retrospect are hilarious. From learning to play guitar to the death of a pet, Sadaris shares his feeling and experiences in a way to make the more cynical person laugh out loud.
In the story "The Youth In Asia" Sadaris writes about the many family pets that often come and go in the typical American Family. After the death of a cat, Sadaris' mother was torn. David and his sisters were of no help as the rubbed salt in the wound of her lost in a way I wish I would have dreamed up. Of course mothers and elephants never forget as David experiences his own lost of a pet and his mother helps pay the expense of having the cat cremated and lovingly wrote a check with a memo that will cause you to scream in delight.
Part two of the book is devoted to David's life in France where he must learn the language and the traditions of the French. Unlike most Americans, Sadaris is not overly concerned to see the Louve or the Eiffel Tower, he is facinated with watching old "B" movies from the United States. Although armed only with less French than an American high schooler, he is able to muddle through France and find humor in his life that all of us can appreciate.
WARNING TO ALL READERS - Be sure you read this book in a place where you can laugh out loud. Because you will.
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Summary: The funniest book...EVER!
Review: My opinion is biased but also legitimate, because Sedaris is my favorite writer. I am an American who has lived in France, and so I have identified utterly and completely with his hilarious descriptions of learning French, putting it to use, and realizing the different planet that is France. But no matter what he is describing, Sedaris is hilarious. His word choice and the rhythm of his sentances propel the reader head first into laughing out loud. I cannot read Sedaris in public, because I collapse with giggles. Of all of his books, this is by far my favorite. Not only because of the French aspect, but because Sedaris has grown as an author with each book, and this one, being the latest, is the best. (The exception to this would be Barrel Fever, which I did not like...) So if you want your day to be brightened by undiluted hilarity, read this book. Or, even better, get the books on tape, where Sedaris' admittedly nasal voice adds another funny element.
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