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Summary: Brilliant!!!
Review: I started this book not knowing what to expect, but from the first page, I was absolutely enthralled. Sometimes I would start howling with laughter in the most inappropriate places (restaurants during lunch, etc.) and people would want to know what I was reading about. My answer was always, "you have to read it for yourself." No words can adequately describe it because I think that everyone will get something different from it despite the fact the the humor is universal. Mr. Sadaris' biting wit cut to the core of my being. The man has a natural talent. I can't wait to read his future works, but Naked will always be one of my all-time favorite pleasurable experiences. You GO, Boy!!
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Summary: Hysterically funny
Review: I haven't read a book as side-splittingly hilarious as Sedaris' in many years. I saw so much of my own self in him (although I never licked light switches), with his wry observations of family life, growing up, and reaching adulthood, that I could not put the book down. David has an amazing gift to meld the idiosyncracies and poignant realities of ourselves and people we know, love, or meet in everyday life, and his essays provided me with refreshing reminders that maybe I'm not as weird as I thought I was :) I've never heard him on NPR, but I do look forward to his other stuff with enthusiasm.
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Summary: Tomfoolery!
Review: I like his witty approach to this memoir, especially in the last essay Naked. It features the author being in a "Naked Camp" where all premises are to be used only when you're naked! It's open and sees deep into your heart, read it!
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Summary: Actually, a funny NAKED truth!
Review: This book was incredible! After finishing the whole thing in an afternoon, I was amazed at the quality of writng (honesty, humour, and vigilance) that David possesses. Please, write more. This book WILL be worn out by the number of friends laughing their heads off. Thank you! P.S.> Thank God I'm not the only one who collects teeth from kittens! Phew!
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Summary: A little old lady thought I was in pain.
Review: I started the book at a bus stop just a few blocks from a major hospital. At the bottom of the first page, tears streaming down my cheeks, a little old lady asked me how long before our bus would arrive- she figured I must be on the way to the hospital because I looked like I was in pain. Although I completely enjoyed the book I did have a few problem areas. I think the difficulty all stems from having heard those sections on 'This American Life' on NPR and they were all still well worth the reading. Having been an outsider visiting a nudist camp I can identify with EVERY one of his observations right down to racial and body piercing attitudes. I can't wait for more!
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Summary: The absolute funniest book I have ever read
Review: This is, without a doubt, the funniest book I have ever read. I had a constant smile on my face while reading it and was constantly being stopped (on the street, on the subway, at work, in class) and asked what I was reading because of my sudden outbursts of hysterical laughter. I re-read it as soon as I was finished and have added the hardcover to my library. My personal favorite story: Dinah, the Christmas Whore!
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Summary: Straight through the heart
Review: a book this funny has to be listed as humor, but it's much more profound than what you usually find in the category. Sedaris has managed to reveal a great deal about our weaknesses, our petty hatreds, and self-interestedness and yet all of his stories are blisteringly funny. i've heard him read in person and his voice adds to the experience. for those that haven't had the chance, i recommend buying both the book and the tape.
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Summary: We should all have emerged intact from such crazy families
Review: I read Naked on a flight between D.C. and California. While downing Diet Coke and "snacks" I laughed aloud while most other passengers were watching reruns on overhead TV. I saw my mother in his mother, I saw my father in his father, I saw me in Lisa and I saw humanity, original and wacky, sweet and surviving in David. More, oh please ... I want more.
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Summary: If only everyone could loosen up and get NAKED
Review: A warning about not reading NAKED while eating, operating machinery, or travelling in large groups should appear on the book's back. It is impossible to get through a single page, let alone the entire book, with out laughing out loud. And I don't mean the kind of laughter that accompanies something funny; I mean the kind of laughter that accompanies something that is undeniable truth. David Sedaris is a master satirist, a comedic magician whose spells are always slightly off-kilter, and irresistably warped. Always irreverent, and always dead on-target, NAKED manages to capture everything that constitutes perilous modern living and turns it into pure, often deliciously nasty, cathartic gold. I for one, read on with delight as Mr. Sedaris managed to put the "fun" back in dysfunctional. Pure brilliance. I bow before this twisted witty genius.
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Summary: This guys a winner!
Review: The kind of book you want to recommend to everyone everywhere except your parents. Loved it-this guys a winner!
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