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Summary: Weekend Book
Review: I read this when it first came out, finding it in my college bookstore. Usually I don't find myself reading something nonstop but I read this until my eyelids felt heavy and then kept on till the end. It was so funny I had to read it a second time as well. It was great reading a book that wasn't required...
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Summary: Listen to it on Tape/CD to Appreciate It
Review: I love David Sedaris. Ever since I heard him on NPR one morning several years ago, I was hooked. I am even considering going to him hear him read for his Me Talk Pretty One Day book tour. This book is fantastic. It is hysterical and touching. He is a genius. You must buy this or get it on audio casettes/CDs from the library. David and his sister read the stories which makes you appreciate them all the more. I have a Plague of Tics memorized, I have listened to it so much. I also bought the David Sedaris Box Set as a Christmas present to myself. All his past work and Me Talk Pretty One Day are great. Buy this - you will not regret it.
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Summary: A must if you liked Me Talk Pretty One Day
Review: I had to have more David Sedaris after I read 'Me Talk Pretty...' but I will say that compared to "Me Talk Pretty...' the humor is a little darker. When you read 'Naked' you feel like you're reading a letter from your best friend that you haven't talked to in a year and you hear yourself saying, "You did what?" It is another warm, funny, and touching look at American life.
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Summary: Hilarious
Review: The autobiographical sketches in this book are nose-snottingly funny. I was afraid to take this book to the gym because of the unattractive physical manifestations the hilarity might provoke. But what makes these stories (or essays) so enduring is the underlying tragedy of it all. There are moments of incredible pathos, moments that would bleed the tears out of us in real life, and Sedaris has us laughing. I think, in a way, that Sedaris's work is so pitch perfect that by reading it, you are immersed in the same mechanisms that the wacky Sedaris family uses to deal with a weird a tragic world.
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Summary: Real, Human, Touching, Funny... David Sedaris is a master.
Review: I grew to know and appreciate David Sedaris thanks to his "This American Life" appearances on National Public Radio. While nothing can match actually hearnig Mr. Sedaris reading his essays aloud, this book comes mighty close.I won't bore you any more adjectives (my title was enough), but suffice to say, the book is well worth the money and time. I highly recommend "Naked." And to everyone who has read the book, a jolly Christmas Ho, ho ho!
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Summary: try to ignore the looks people give you...
Review: my goodness. this novel will definitely make other people question your sanity. while i was sitting in class one day, i remembered some funny parts of the book and i just busted out laughing. it was hard to explain to my teacher and classmates how the hell i could be quiet one moment and laughing insanely the next. the book is just so hilarious, you can't help but laugh out loud. i was a bit disappointed, though, that i didn't find the latter part of the book as funny. but it's a good read. i recommend it, but not if you can't stand people looking at you strangely. ;)
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Summary: Out of your comfort level
Review: Okay, so everyone has mixed feelings about David Sedaris' work. True. I don't consider every essay "humorous". They can be alarming, even distressing. His stories contain characters that don't act in a manner you would think. And that's the humor. Portraits of his mother as a sarcastic one-liner comedienne (see "A Plague of Tics", "Dinah, the Christmas Whore") are very funny. Painting a strange canvass of bizarre "americana" throughout, I do find that I tend to like essays I have heard him read through NPR's "This American Life". Reading "I Like Guys" and "Drama Bug" just doesn't do the work justice. Listening to Sedaris' nervous, femmy-intellectual voice puts that humor in it that makes me just laugh out loud. I've read all the David Sedaris books --- from "Barrel Fever" to "Me Talk Pretty One Day", and I must say that "Me Talk Pretty One Day" could possibly be the most palatable book yet for those of you who disdain "Naked", or are weirded-out by "Barrel Fever." And, as a current employee of Macy's (albeit the western division), I find that "The SantaLand Diaries" (from either "Barrel Fever" or "Holidays on Ice") is by far the most humorous, either reading it or hearing him recite it. For Sedars' spoken essay, "Drama Bug" and other essays by similarly hilarious writers, a good compilation to try is "This American Life" CD, also available here at Amazon!
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Summary: Buy it for the Santaland Diaries
Review: If you've heard David Sedaris read excerpts from the Santaland Diaries on NPR, you know what I mean. I remember being half asleep, and hearing through my 6 a.m. haze this odd, little man talking about working as an elf at Macy's: an angry customer threatens that she's going to have him fired, to which he replies in his quiet, malevolent voice, "I'm going to have you killed." If you only read the Santaland Diaries (one of the longer essays), this book is worth the price. You must have an appreciation, however, for bitchy, misanthropic humor. Otherwise skip it.
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Summary: Annoying
Review: An annoying disjointed book. I didn't enjoy reading it. The author jumps from one bad anecdote to another. How this is humor beats me!
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Summary: Best Book Ever Written
Review: I absolutly loved this book as well as his others. If you love to laugh and sit back and make fun of the world around you then this is the book for you. It was very funny and really hit home as I have been to many of the places he described in North Carolina. I saw him speak and decided that his books might be a good investment and I was right!! Thumbs up all the way.
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