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Summary: Laughed my keister off!
Review: I read this book, desparate to read something fun. This was exactly what I was looking for. There were parts of this book that were so funny, I couldn't help but wake my husband up with my laughter. Excellent book, very funny in parts, poignant in others. Read it.
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Summary: Fizzled Out
Review: After the first two chapters, I was laughing out loud and congratulating myself on having chosen a really good book. By the middle of the book, the humor was wearing thin and I found myself actually disliking - very much - the main character. By the end of the book, I couldn't stand him, and I wasn't laughing anymore. He struck me as a weak, non-memorable whiner who would rather play the cynic as opposed to trying to make any situation he found himself in better through some initiative of his own. I had no expectations when I bought the book - didn't know what it would be like. But after having read it, I feel as if it was time out of my life wasted. You know how when you finish a good book you feel a real sense of satifaction? Well, with this one I felt only annoyed.
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Summary: Not sure what I was expecting...
Review: ... but I liked what I got. This is the first Sedaris book I've read, and now I plan to try a few more. It was funny in a twisted way and touching at the same time. It gives some actual "laugh out loud" moments, but for the most part has a wry humor that I suspect many people won't enjoy (which is not a bad thing).
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Summary: BLAH
Review: I have yet to laugh. The humor is the sick and annoying type that I cannot stand from human beings much less from a book. Half the time I am waiting for the climax, but instead hit the plateau that the book has been riding on since page 1. I bought this book with all of its overwhelming reviews, but it is entirely disapointing. Plan to sell it off as soon as I can....buyers?
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Summary: Funniest Book I've Ever Read. Seriously.
Review: I finished this book on a subway. As i finished the last word of the last page, i did not pause: i turned immediately to the first page and began re-reading it. It is absolutely hysterical and brilliant. I got a 'book-hangover' from this book - the books i tried to read afterwards just didn't match up, and it was hard to get going again. His sardonic views of life and those people in his life are marvelous. READ THIS BOOK!!!
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Summary: mean on the outside, but honest through and through
Review: I haven't read any of David Sedaris' other books, but I recently saw him read selections from his older books and from unpublished material. Like a lot of people, I was introduced to him by his appearances on NPR. I loved his voice immediately and in reading Naked found that when I made myself hear his voice in my head while reading his prose, that this made the material a lot funnier. His timing and intonation are a significant part of his humor.I felt that his book started off a little slowly. Perhaps I didn't figure out the trick of hearing his voice until about a third of the way into the book. In any case, midway through I found that I couldn't put the book down. I suppose that I had entered his world by then. His world is that of a nouveau riche suburban family from upstate New York transplanted to Raleigh, North Carolina. He grew up without material want, but not completely spoiled, as his father forced his kids to go out and work at menial jobs. The story "Dinah, the Christmas Whore" is his crassly honest telling of rescuing a co-worker of his sister Lisa's from an abusive incident and bringing her home to their suburban ranch house. By the time you get to this story you have gotten to know his mother and it is completely believeable that her first reaction to Dinah's appearance is to start mixing the drinks. Sedaris ends the story by telling us how cool it felt to be the only one on his block entertaining a whore that evening. ...The story of his hitch hike from Ohio to North Carolina with his parapelegic friend at first relates how Sedaris and his friend lied to and took advantage of all of their rides. While he is telling the tale he calls these people 'stupid', but by the end of the story when he is looking back on the trip after receiving a letter from his now born-again friend he confesses that she had already figured out that all those people were simply kind and generous, but that it would take him years to understand that. Sedaris is now in his early 40s. All of these stories are set in his childhood through his mid 20s. He is confessing that he was a snotty, confused, erratic young person. A lot of us were, but choose to remember it less honestly. And hardly any of us are as funny as David Sedaris.
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Summary: andrea
Review: i thought this book was awesome. the best ever by David Sedaris!
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Summary: Exposed
Review: Is this funny, really? This book opens up the main character and exposes him like a mean sister at Thanksgiving after his greatest blunder. Is it wrong to laugh? Is it right? Who cares? This book just makes you face the fact that there is humor in everything. A quick read, leaves you with a smile on your face, thinking, "That was funny...um, but should I be laughing?" Well, obviously...duh. Of course.
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Summary: Gotta Love This!!!!
Review: Listening to this just made me wish that David and Amy had done more works togother. They are a matched set of disfunctional nuts that seem to get on with life even though the odds are against it.....Having listened to everything David has done, I have to tell you that a day without David is BORING!!!!
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Summary: Hilarious!
Review: At about page 60, I put the book down and, with tears of laughter in my eyes,... His ability to weave a story with humor and true feeling reminds me of my other favorite authors--Anne Tyler and John Irving.
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