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Summary: A Distrubing Jaunt -- my opinion.
Review: After having enjoyed "Take the Canoli" (Sarah Vowell), I thought I would stick with the NPR storytelling genre, and bought this book as it was on the Amazon's "also bought" list.Written auto-biographically, Sedaris describes the nightmare of his childhood, as well as the nighmare of a child he must have been to his parents. He describes in detail his childhood obsessive compulsive behaviors, like screaming unexplicably in class, compulsive rocking, listening the same pop tunes hundreds of times, the need to smash his nose up agaisnt window glass when he was in a car, and how he had to count each step on the way home from school (with assorted rituals along the way, like opening doors with his elbows. This was a messed up kid. (or the fiction of a deranged person). I did not find it funny at all -- it was distrubing. He also talks about his family including a father so obsessed with getting his kids to take up golf, that he finds it more important to keep the author and his sister at a professional golf event, than to deal with his daughter's first menstruation. Sick parent. Sick kid. I put down the book about 1/3 of the way through, when he reveals his alternate sexual preference. For those of us who want to believe that such is a choice/preference of otherwise normal healthy people, this book disturbs that notion. I will share this book with no one -- I think I will throw it away.
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Summary: Funny, Observent
Review: This is the second of Sedaris' books I've read and it did not at all disapppoint. I had difficulty putting this book down and read the essays in record time. Most of the essays will make you laugh out loud, there are parts in each which are tender and even melancholy. Only Sedaris, could put humor into hitchhiking with his handicapped roommate or bring out a humorous side in the wake of his mother's impending death. A unique perspective to social satire.
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Summary: Laugh out loud Funny
Review: The first book in ages to make me laugh out loud, even on a crowded subway.
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Summary: so funny it hurts
Review: This is one of the funniest books I've ever read. David Sedaris has an eye for the absurd details of real life. He's not afraid to make fun of himself or other people, turning sad situations into intensely comic ones. Some of the stories in here are better than others and some of them should have been edited better, but overall, this is book is fantastic. My favorite part is where he's picking apples and his boss, in an attempt to show off his Spanish, yells at one of the workers, "Buenos Dios, Miguel!" The worker jumps and the boss says, "They spook easy, you know." Yes well, that's what happens when you go up behind someone and shout "Good God!"
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Summary: David Sedaris is hilarious.
Review: I love Sedaris. He's so brilliantly hilarious. This book and others are highly recommended. Noone tells the story of being a human with random life experiences better than Sedaris.
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Summary: Hilarious
Review: I laughed so hard I couldn't breathe. David Sedaris has really hit the mark with this book. You can't help but feel happy for his success.
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Summary: Amusing as Hell
Review: I love David Sedaris. His observations on the human race are stingingly accurate, and on top of that, funny. If you haven't yet experienced his autobiographical essays, this is as good a place to start as any. Buy the book and read it; you'll be glad that you did.
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Summary: People may think you're nuts...
Review: This book is just unabashingly hilariously funny, yet has a very slight, deeply veiled emotional underbelly to it as well. David Sedaris is completely and unapologetically hilarious in his observations about his childhood, adulthood and daily life. He picks up on the most arcane and asinine things and makes them hilarious. For instance, why is it that at a nudist colony, one must provide their own towels? I live in Manhattan, and I would take the subway or the bus while I was reading the book and not be able to help myself and laugh out loud. People may think that I'm crazy but this book is really just that funny. One lady that I met while waiting for the bus actually said something in the same vein to me about his humor. So if you care about what people think, don't read this book anywhere but in the privacy of your own home whilst not eating/drinking/smoking/etc.
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Summary: You will laugh out loud!
Review: I know it sounds cliche but it is true. You cannot read this book without laughing hysterically. Don't try and read this book while your spouse is trying to sleep next to you. Sedaris' essays are funny and thought-provoking as he takes you through his early life. If you liked Running With Scissors, this book will appeal to you. And in the essay format you can read snipets and still enjoy without feeling the need to get it all read one blast.
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Summary: A really funny book!
Review: This is the second book I've read by David Sedaris, the first being Me Write Pretty One Day. Both are extremely funny. He's a bit off-the-wall, but that is his charm. Sedaris basically says outloud one's normally silent observations about everything he sees. There is no mercy here. Which brings to mind in one epidode, his graphic thoughts on his fellow nudist campers. Aside from the wacky and entertaining adventures, the writing itself is very good. Very well edited. I look forward to reading his next book.
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