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Summary: Hilarious...but incomplete
Review: Like many others, I found myself laughing out loud (the fudge-colored towels got me big time)...but if he spent the first part of the book drawing me in, he spent the later half pushing me away. The stories of his family are intimate, yet coy. He flashes peeks at his nakedness, but then closes the coat pretty quickly. Simple things began to annoy me: what are the names of his 3 other sisters? I haven't forgotten the names of any of my siblings...and they'd all play a big part any any memior. After revealing his homosexuality and then poignantly relating some early "discovery" experiences, where is his first important relationship? Or is that TOO naked? Why throw in the visit to the nudist colony when it is merely a vaguely amusing story that reveals very little? That end piece might have worked as a column but it doesn't work as a part of this book. Still, I enjoyed the book heartily, and was disappointed merely because I wanted more of the type of writing that started the book.
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Summary: Piss Your Pants Humor
Review: Don't lend this book to your friends. Invite them over and drink lemonade and vodka out of those big plastic glasses from McDonalds and read it out loud (if you can). Get terribly drunk, smoke Misti's and listen to Ben Folds Five and remember that porno book that you found. This is the funniest thing you will ever read.
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Summary: Laugh out loud hilarity
Review: So funny I really did laugh out loud. Normally, to keep up appearances, I would never engage in such behavior. This book forced me to do so. And I am happily ashamed.
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Summary: HOMOSEXUALITY & CATHOLIC GUILT IN AMERICA
Review: I read Naked in one day and enjoyed the book. I did not think it was as funny as I had expected, however I did enjoy the transitions throughout the book seemingly giving a poingnant picture of his "life", I recommended it to my mother. Nevertheless I was left wondering about the Christianity aspect of Naked. Is Sedaris attempting to make a joke out of religion, or is he trying to redeem himself as a homosexual male that seems to possess some form of Cathoic guilt? He never lets the reader forget that he is gay and this is "unhealthy". This is further illustrated by Curly, the epitiome of American trailer park trash, and his extensive 'collection' in his mother's trailer. As I pawed through the many reviews of this book, I noticed two concepts frequently repeated; dysfunction and stress. Whenever I hear the word "stress" all I can think of America. I have made a conscious decision to cut this word out of my vocabulary because it is a mere invention. Where else can a person lazily describe every bit of daily minutia and annoyance in one word? In my opinion generalizations are "unhealthy", causing dullness- of- the- brain. Isn't it better to say 'my job is making me feel anxious', than 'I'm so stressed at work'? The same goes for "dysfunction", a disease that every American family seems to prescribe to. What makes Sedaris so special? Certainly not that he can laugh in the face of misery, don't we all do that anyways? Sedaris, however, has the patience to write it down and perhaps invent some new stuff to fill in the serious-adult-gaps. Overall this book was an enjoyable read, even though I had to eat an entire box of Altoids to remove the taste of cliche from my mouth.
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Summary: A must read for those of us who wonder about our gene pool..
Review: BUY THIS BOOK! It's a great easy read, one that will have you laughing at Sedaris' upbringing and cause you to reflect humorously on your own - no matter if it was disfunctional or "Leave It To Beaver"esque.....
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Summary: Big Laugh
Review: This book is a hoot. It manages to be funny no matter what. Sedaris sees the humor in everything.
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Summary: Gee
Review: Wouldn't ya like to be??
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Summary: A pretty good book
Review: I think that this is a great book for travel. It is a quick read with a lot of amusing moments in it. Sedaris' style is self-depricating and quick witted, and I believe he as a gift for hyperbole. I didn't find this book to be as hilarious as everyone else, apparently. There were passages which caused me to laugh, but overall, I thought that the book had a lot of what would be outright depressing subjects; it is only because of the author's tongue-in-cheeck style that these topics were manageably wrangled into fodder for amusement.
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Summary: Simply Hilarious and Suddenly Poignant
Review: A Gem
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Summary: The most funniest book I have read in a long time.
Review: David Sedaris has a way with words that I only wish I had. The stories of his childhood and his family were so interesting and hysterically funny all at the same time. I was laughing so hard that I had to put the book down and go get a kleenex to wipe the tears from my eyes. The man is a comedic genius.
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