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Summary: A Good Laugh
Review: This book is hilarious. I love the way Sedaris' views the world. I couldn't figure out how he was able to afford all that he did (live in Paris, travel around everywhere) being a cleaning person and on drugs though. I don't recommend this to conservative people. His observations are Seinfeldish and a step beyond, making them even better than Seinfeld.
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Summary: Does it again!
Review: Great reading! Many of the people he writes about seem all too familiar (fortunately or unfortunately). I was laughing so hard my neighbors think I was hitting the nitrous oxide a little too hard! From the Carolinas to Normandy, he just points out how funny we humans really are and can be!
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Summary: Laugh til you cry funny
Review: David Sedaris is a wonderful observer of his world, and has a delightful way of reporting his observations with humor and quality writing. In 'Me Talk Pretty, ' Sedaris takes us on an autobiographical tour of his early years and his time in Paris. The writing is deliciously fresh with sentences that paint vivid word pictures and make you laugh out loud.I think what makes this book a real gift is that Sedaris looks at the foibles in his life. There are real encounters that we all experience, but Sedaris has the courage to report his with honesty and humor. Don't miss reading this book.
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Summary: Does it again!
Review: Can you laugh any harder?!? From the beginning to the end, he does it again with great stories...some of which hits too close to home! Many of the people, fortunately or unfortunately, sounds all too familiar! Laughed all through "2"! (My neighbors think I ve gone mad!) Great writing, must read a second or third time to catch it all!
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Summary: Funny and engaging
Review: This book was one of the best I had read in a long time. It was funny and sad and beautiful and you couldn't help laughing out loud. My favorite essays were the ones that took place in France, which I felt were perfect in describing the way one feels when they are transplanted in a new place.
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Summary: One of the funniest books around
Review: Sedaris writes with a screwball/everyman/chronic underachiever sensibility which leads to hilarious results. This is a "laugh out loud" funny book! Highly recommended!
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Summary: reading this book is equivelent to doing 100 ab cruches
Review: Because you laugh so hard at practically every other sentence. This was my first taste of the wonderfully insightful and incontinence-inducing David Sedaris. After reading Holidays on Ice and Naked, I'm still a fan of his latest. I picked up this book from a pile of crap from Costco that my mom had bought and scanned the book jacket blurb. Referring to Sedaris as a "spooky man child" was what hooked me. This became my favorite book because I could read it 100 times and the humor would still be fresh and hysterical. I fell in love with David Sedaris while I read it and would often flip to the back cover to smile at his cute little face. READ THIS BOOK.
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Summary: A Humorous and Sardonic Look at Life
Review: This is a terrific book of essays and observations by an NPR regular. He is quite revealing about his upbringing, and his lifestyle, but the real fun is his sketches of life in North Carolina, New York City and Paris. His stories on learning French were unique and spot-on to me. He also skewers "Americans abroad", and French culture. If you like to smile and laugh while reading, this is your book. (I won't be forgeting his brother "The Rooster", or his "fat" sister, Amy, anytime soon.)
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Summary: Less than humorous
Review: I hate to say it, but I'm tossing the Sedaris book aside. I find it absolutely dreadful--not to mention boring. Several people recommended the book which surprises me. He's unfunny. I'm tired, too, of the repressed-boy-homo theme that so many gay men like to write about. Yawn!
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Summary: A Thousand Laughs
Review: Being an avid reader of many genres of literature, Me Talk Pretty One Day has to be the most humourous novel I have ever read. David Sedaris takes his personal experiences and compiles them into a halarious novel that I just couldn't put down. David tells about his experiences in France and of his family, where my favorite essay comes into mind. He tells about his lovely brother in the story titled You Can't Kill the Rooster. I have also read Naked and Holidays On Ice by David Sedaris and I have been to a reading where I had the chance to hear David tell these stories himself. When my mother recommened David Sedaris to me, I didn't know what to expect. She said that he was funny, but I wasn't sure how funny. Me Talk Pretty One Day is highly reccommed for those who need a good laugh and want the pleasure of knee-slapping humor and somewhat appalling stories that you could never believe to be true. If you want to do yourself a favor by adding some laughter into your life, pick up a copy of Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris.
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