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Summary: Sedaris is genius
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I have read/recommended every book that Sedaris has written. "Barrel Fever" started my love affair with him, and I haven't been disappointed with "Naked" or "Me Talk Pretty One Day" either. The thing I love most about his writing technique is that you can go from laughing out loud one minute to feeling really touched by the end of the chapter. I LOVED his personal experiences growing up. I was born and raised in North Carolina, and to hear about growing up there from a transplant's perspective was hysterical. It also never ceases to amaze me that when you're sitting on a beach or by a pool and have someone spot you reading one of his book's an immediate conversation will begin about how wonderful he is and a recommendation will inevitably come your way about anyone who has read his series. I haven't met an author that could inspire any of that before. After WILL@epicqwest.com by Tom Grimes, THE LOSERS CLUB by Richard Perez, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, is the funniest book I've read so far this year. You'll really enjoy this, I promise! Don't hesitate to pick up a copy!
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Summary: Bottom Line: Worth Buying!
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Is this David Sedaris' BEST book? Maybe not. ME TALK PRETTY ONE DAY must take that honor. However, after a rocky start I did enjoy this collection of witty essays from America's greatest (expatriate) humorist. In particular, "The Change in Me" struck that classic chord: it's an essay that can be read again and again, brilliant in only the way art can be (which is to say, magical). Two other books I'd like to recommend with DRESS YOUR FAMILY, is RUNNING WITH SCISSORS by Burroughs and THE LOSERS CLUB by Richard Perez.
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Summary: David Sedaris is Excellent
Review: Once again Author David Sedaris writes a fantastic memoir!! Done is such away as to be canny and witty. Excellent! Also recommended: Running with Scissors, Me talk Pretty One day,Nightmares Echo, She's Come Undone
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Summary: Terrificly dark & humorous studies of family dramas/traumas
Review: "Me Talk Pretty One Day" was great and so is "Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim." The subject matter is darker this time because, frankly, family is a darker subject when you're honest about it. But it's still funny, smart and funny. You will laugh and you will nod your head, and you will shake your head in shame or disgust. You will if you have a less than perfect family as I do, or as Sedaris does. You will if you're honest, or like honesty. Some people don't. They're uncomfortable with it, and I understand.
Another recommendation, as novels go, is Paddock's "A Secret Word." If you liked that book and thought it was great, then you should read this one, or vice versa. The complex and often difficult dynamics of family is subject matter I can't get enough of.
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Summary: His American Life-and Sometimes Parisian Life
Review: "Oh, please, please do not put my parrot in your movie,
but if we are included will you have me played as fat?" implores Lisa to her brother, David Sedaris. Thus goes the life of David Sedaris in his new book "Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim".David Sedaris most often known for the stories he portrays on NPR's "This American Life" is a prolific writer and story teller.
We laugh out loud at some of his antics or those he causes. In this new book, some of the stories have been heard before on NPR or in his CD or read in the "New Yorker" Some of the stories are gross- like his younger brother's wedding night where he shows David how he gets his larger bull dog to eat the smaller dog's poop. Yuckadew! Most of the stories are not ones I can really relate to, but I can understand. The chapter that focuses on Holland's Christmas night with Santa and the 7 or 8 black men ( no one really knows whether it is 7 or 8 black men who accompany Santa) is hilarious and one of the funniest stories in the book. David takes us to Paris where he and his roommate are looking for a new apartment. The one they have is beautiful, but the landlord cannot sell it to them, can only lease it for 26 years until his daughters are old enough to inhabit it. Or, the time his father kicked him out of the house. David thought it was because he slept all day, smoked pot all night and listened to one record over and over. But in reality it was for another reason that David was asked to leave. David brings us to Boston to visit his sister. She is a baker and lives in a house in Somerville. She has become by way of a rickshaw a deadbeat, a hippie, a collector of "things". David's job is to clean the house although sister wants no part of that- it is David's obsessive cleaning behavior that makes him do it. One of the more outrageous stories takes place when he has a job as a house cleaner. David was mistakenly called instead of an S&M cleaning outfit. On and on, David portrays himself and his family as a little loony, a little too obsessive. But, this is David's perspective and his writing style pulls you in. Mom seems to me to be the one that held the family together and as strange and funny as she is, I like her a lot. She kicks the kids out of the house on a snowy winter vacation day. They end up playing in the street, and she comes to rescue them as if nothing unusual has happened. She can cry, she can yell, and we see where the family might get their interesting personalites! She always wanted grandchildren and one of the stories centers on which child will have the first baby,and by gosh it does happen! I left the strangest story for last because it takes place in New Hampshire. It centers on a small hotel with few amenities and David carrying coffee with a small child to........ I love David Sedaris and his writing. I buy his books eagerly and am not disappointed. This one is a doozy and will entertain you for hours. prisrob
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Summary: Hard Life, Humourous Look At It
Review: <br />Thought the book tells of a difficult childhood, he does so with a bit of humor. Though you feel some of the pain in this autobiography, you don't have the chance to feel all of the pain. The reflections on himself are witty. A brilliant book to read! <br /><br />Also recommended: Other memoirs to read include: Father Joe and Nightmares Echo **Great season for great autobiographies! <br />
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Summary: Once again....fabulous
Review: David Sedaris cannot write anything that is not anything but fabulous. I especially love his stories about his brother, who is his antithesis. If you read one Sedaris book, you must read them all.
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Summary: weak for sedaris
Review: David Sedaris is always consistently funny and enjoyable to read, and this book is no exception, but it seems that this is his weakest offering to date. His tone seems to be becoming more and more snobby, and I hate to say it, but ANOTHER book about your family? I wish that David would try to challenge himself a little more. This is still a good book, I just had high expectations because Sedaris is so great.
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Summary: Can't say enough good things about this one
Review: First introduced to David Sedaris via ME TALK PRETTY and NAKED, I read everything he'd ever written and eagerly awaited DRESS YOUR FAMILY. Let's just say that this one does NOT disappoint. As good as his other books, DRESS YOUR FAMILY contains some of his best material yet. "Six to Eight Black Men" had me laughing so hard I was punding my fists with tears streaming down my face. His brother, Paul, is equally funny with his metaphors---a true Southerner. I was reminded of McCrae in his BARK OF THE DOGWOOD with some of the humor, family dysfunction, and eccentric characters. If you're looking for a good time, DRESS YOUR FAMILY is it. Also recommended: BARK OF THE DOGWOOD and ME TALK PRETTY ONE DAY
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Summary: disappointing...
Review: How very deceiving the other reviews have been! I wonder if the author or his friends posted them. I read them and bought the book thinking it might offer a humorous side on the everyday life of Americans...I was very disappointed. I could not even smile. Grotesque, in some parts ourtight disgusting...miserly low class American life...at its worst. No wonder the author moved to Paris, although I do not doubt that "the city will always follow him"... If he has read the Greeks, he will know whom I am referring to....Don't waste your money on this one.
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